Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Simmons

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

To the rest of the state, Northern Virginia is a single-cell amoeba. Those of us in Northern Virginia see its individual parts. It's far more diverse than the rest of the commonwealth thinks of us.

Trust and safety is a huge division in the company. They have a number of safeguards in place, but it is a very diverse market place. The question, I think, is are they doing enough? Could they be doing more? Should they be doing more?

True to form, we got great kids out of the area. It's a very diverse group. We got some big linemen and some great skill kids, too.

Claire McCaskill

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

Barack Obama

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

We have kids from 30 different countries. We have a very diverse population.

Most Americans don't understand the diversity of people in West Africa.

When that statement was made, it highlighted the significance of the situation. We will not divert from that statement.

You don't expect easy games this time of the year. This is what you work for all fall and winter, why you practice. You have to get to every loose ball, dive for everything. Every possession could be your last.

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.

We hope to be expanding. We're starting off with three theater productions this year. We hope to expand it to four next year. We just want to have a real diverse season.

We don't spend any time looking at their figures. We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

We don't spend any time looking at their figures, ... We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

We can use diversion structures to redirect sediment (coming down the river) that is now going off the continental shelf.

We can actually get a look before we have divers go down.

We have a very diverse parade. Everyone is welcome.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

Victor LaValle

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.

Thank God for that game. We just settled for perimeter shots in that game. That game opened our eyes to how diverse we need to be, and how diverse we can be. Since then, we've started scoring in different ways.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Li Keqiang

It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

E. O. Wilson

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donella Meadows

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?