Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

We still got a generally weak economy. There's uncertainty about the Middle East, Venezuela and Enron,

Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Seamus Heaney

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Shari Arison

If we all collectively generate good energy, there will be a good outcome.

Abby Wambach

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

Ben Carson

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Tom Jenkinson

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Trey Gowdy

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Alexander Herzen

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

We are not generating the number of shots we need to get. When you only take 50 shots we are not in good shape we need to take 70.

Bill White

We are not encouraging the general public to go into the streets looking for shelter,

Kris Jenner

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Mohammed Morsi

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

Norman Lear

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Cynthia Kenyon

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

David Suzuki

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Glenn Beck

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

We are looking for just a general manager, ... He will set the strategy and the tone. We are just hiring one person.

We are just so happy. We're delighted. We're thankful for everyone's generosity in doing that for our boy.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

William Davies

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

Travis Barker

Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.

Karen Kain

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Keith Sweat

The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

Walter Dean Myers

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Craig Venter

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

Bill Bryson

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

Wade Horn

We're not surprised at what the inspector general found.

August Wilson

We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.