Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Alan Greenspan

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alain Robert

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Chip Conley

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

David Tepper

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Tepper

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Ryan

Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.

David Nabarro

Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

Chad Harbach

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

Catherynne M. Valente

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

Aidan Gillen

What is the key to life on Earth?

Ai Weiwei

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

Bernie Mac

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Dick Costolo

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

Edgar Cayce

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Charlotte Bronte

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.

Chester A. Arthur

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Charlie Melancon

Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.

Charlie Kaufman

Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

Bikram Choudhury

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

Bernard Meltzer

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.