Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Rubbia

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

His health is generally very good. He does have some memory problems. For that reason he is not making speeches or giving live interviews.

His health is generally very good, ... He does have some memory problems. For that reason he is not making speeches or giving live interviews.

Goran Persson

Chirac has been excessively generous towards the British. There has been a very constructive mood.

But I generally just work things out on stage, because you're just going to say things up there differently than you would type them.

Ted Thompson

This is a big-boy league. I understand repercussions and the way you judge a general manager.

This investment is generally recommended for higher-income tax brackets,

They took it upon themselves to put him in the general population.

John Wesley

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

John Stott

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Seth Godin

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Seth Godin

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Tom Allen

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Margaret Mead

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

The House recognized the serious difficulties of this whole approach. It would've shortchanged municipalities and shortchanged the state general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

Felipe Alou

You don't have too many guys who are regulars you can use, without fear, in three outfield positions in three days. That's generally a part-time guy.

Henry Garza

Music has been in our family for generations.

Plato

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

John Travolta

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

James Russell Lowell

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

James Russell Lowell

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

Laurence Sterne

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

George Gilder

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.