Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pollan

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

Mark Steyn

Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

Michael Behe

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Randy Pausch

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Rand Paul

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work,

James Balog

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

Martin Seligman

The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Millard Fuller

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

John Wooden

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

The hedge funds have come roaring into the commodities market, and they are willing to take risks.

Whitney Tilson

The hedge fund 'bubble,' while not popping, is no longer inflating.

You've got to put the funds where they will do the most good for the most kids.

All we do is fund their budgets. They are 100 percent responsible for their hires. If we disapproved it would not matter.

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

The key is to study the individual fund managers and their track records.

The trust fund is doing unexpectedly and surprisingly well.

These funds will be used efficiently and effectively to find better ways to diagnose, treat and help our veterans.

These funds are so totally unrelated to any involvement between Perry and Manchester United that this matter did not even come up in our sponsorship negotiations.

Marissa Mayer

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

Max Planck

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

Max Planck

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

John Quincy Adams

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

Johan Huizinga

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Lou Dobbs

He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.

Leo Strauss

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

John Lydon

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

John Kluge

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

Joanna Newsom

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Karen Armstrong

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Judy Chicago

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.