Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Ben Bernanke

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

Arthur C. Clarke

People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.

Anton Chekhov

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Anton Chekhov

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

Bella Abzug

Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Anthony Trollope

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Chuck Schumer

Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

With the Lucio Tan group gaining sole control of PNB, it is unlikely that there will be any change in the composition of the bank's highly professional and competent management team,

With their quickness, our game plan to start was to slow them down a little bit, play some zone. They hit some threes and at that point we just felt we had to change it up. We went man-to-man, we went with a different lineup tonight. We just went with all quick ball-handling type players.

With the increase of clusters the possibility has to be thoroughly examined that the virus might have changed and could possibly spread from human to human,

Rivers Cuomo

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

We're going to do three or four new ones. The rest will be older stuff. We're excited about the new disc. Those who know us will realize that we haven't changed much. We're going to be going on tour with U.S. Bombs. That's going to be great for us. We'll get some exposure. In the meantime, we're playing as hard as we can on this tour.

We're going to change the culture in King County.

We're going to change our philosophy on defense. We were a little passive last year. We have some kids who can play man coverage, so we might be able to come after teams a little more. We don't want to be sitting ducks like we were last year.

Glenn Miller

We're going to change it. White people are going to wake up. We're going to run for office. I'm running for Congress. Fifty million white men out of work, then whitey will fight. He won't fight until then.

We feel comfortable staying with them, ... I feel comfortable on how they've worked with us and on changes they've recommended.

Alexei Kovalev

We faced a lot of tough teams on this road trip. But we changed a lot of things before this game and played better defensively. We had better control of the puck. It's like we started from scratch. I've seen the changes, I think we can turn this thing around. We've got most of our guys back (from injury). Hopefully this was the start.

Margaret Beckett

We face a timetable that is driven by nature, science and by the predicted effect of climate change on our world, not by our own negotiating processes.

We're pleased with the progress we're making. We have changed some of the terms and conditions and parameters around the offerings in line with what they were telling us they wanted. That's got to be progress from their point of view and ours.

Rick Santorum

We're in the process right now of judges and vigilantes -- people taking justice into their own hands and deciding to change the law without either the courts or the legislature acting.

Mark Turgeon

We're just happy to be here. It's been a great ride. Selection Sunday our name pops up and we're excited and 6 days later we're in the Sweet 16 and things change quick.

We're getting everything from spare change to 20-dollar bills.

We're focusing on the fundamentals. We can't change things because of the team we face. We have to keep it simple.

We're hoping to change a lot of records. We're kind of going on a record-breaking frenzy.

We're hoping that when the state returns they will be able to validate the changes we've put in place.

William Shakespeare

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

William Shakespeare

That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.

Jasper Johns

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

Lesley Gore

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.