Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Richard Rohr

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Charles Francis Richter

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

Charles Francis Richter

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Todd Bertuzzi

We did the correct things, but we also made some costly mistakes.

We're likely to see a sharp and meaningful correction that lasts a few months.

This spring is the time to correct those little things and make it a priority to do all the little things right.

Alexandra Stoddard

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

We want to be straightforward and accountable even when the news is bad. In this case, mistakes were made but we did the right thing to correct them and to make sure they don't happen again.

Jalal Talabani

We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country.

Kat Graham

I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

Laurence J. Peter

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Dries van Noten

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

Gloria Steinem

I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.

We don't have a valuation for it until we determine what the correct number of students should have been,

We are on the correct path. I want the players to be football savvy on the field.

We were kind of upset and we wanted to prove we were a championship-caliber team. Our goal was kind of to correct what we didn't do at Stanford. It was a big deal for us.

The data should tend to encourage views that the Fed is correct and that inflation looks to be contained.

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

William Jennings Bryan

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

No, he hasn't thrown many, and for the most part he goes to the correct guy, ... He doesn't force a lot of passes, which obviously translates to fewer interceptions. That's been a big plus. . . . The games are a lot different than practice. He's left the pocket sometimes when the protection has been good. But for the most part he gets back and unloads it.

Kevin McCarthy

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

My sense is the next correction will be serious.

One moment Russia is saying they have made a decision, the next saying that no decision has been made. To date, there has been no correct information. This is regrettable.

Richard Boucher

one would expect more than the kind of correction we've seen so far.

We are heartsick that this happened and are currently doing everything possible to correct the problem.

Jeff Cohen

There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.

Natan Sharansky

But by having a right to dissent and having institutions which protect that right, free societies also have mechanisms to correct those abuses.

E. B. White

My head kept moving on the shot. I tried to correct it, but it wasn't working. He punished me.

Obviously there were some speakers who should have been more neutral, but as the director I'm going to correct the situation.

Brian Billick

Obviously it's hugely disappointing to play the way we did. All you can do is go back to work to correct it. There's no use in feeling sorry for ourselves.

From a coach's perspective, the glass is always half full. We're pleased with the improvement, but we need to correct the mistakes we're still making.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? / For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.