Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.

What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

We want to have a policy discussion about how what we do impacts other jurisdictions and how they impact us.

We'll see how he is over the next week or so before discussing plans. But if he is to run in the Kentucky Derby, he will go straight there without a prep race.

We smelled fumes on the first and second floors. I opened the garage and discovered the bodies. They were nude.

James Rhodes

They realize there's a lot more involved. Others come to realize it's not for them. We would rather have them discover it early on ? that's exploring.

Dorothy Hodgkin

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

Colin Wilson

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Colin Wilson

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Claude Bernard

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Claude Bernard

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Dalai Lama

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

William Bryan

In this fight I have the most intolerant and vindictive enemies I have ever met and I have the largest majority on my side I have ever had and I am discussing the greatest issue I have ever discussed.

Brigitte Boisselier

I hope that I can disclose everything soon.

I haven't really had a good discussion with him on that side of it yet so we'll do that over the next few weeks.

Jeff Flake

I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now.

I really had a great time playing for him. He was a great leader who instilled discipline in his players.

I really learned discipline. It will make you better.

Clayton Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

In that interview we will discuss the applicant's background, what they used to do, what they like to do, and what is available. They may want to do something entirely different from what they had done in the past.

In the beginning, the abatement program was 100 percent responsible for getting things going. Now there is a discussion going on about whether or not it's still needed.

Seth Numrich

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Mario Van Peebles

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

Sachin Tendulkar

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.