Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Attias

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

We've been running a captive-breeding programme with the boreal toad ( Bufo boreas ) since 1995,

Orson Scott Card

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Ram Dass

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

We were weighing the pros and cons. I was torn.

John Carey

We don't object, but we don't promote either.

We are working toward prompt ratification of CAFTA.

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

We wanted to do something really different to promote the band. Something that no one else had ever done.

We wanted to come out and prove that we are back,

We wanted to be part of the profound rebirth of the city.

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.

We've had this problem for 15 years. We need a new jail.

Scott Parker

We've had a lot of unforeseen problems. For the first time this year, we'll have all of the seniors we expected.

Mats Sundin

We've had our struggles this year but we're going to do everything we can to make it in to the playoffs. I'm very proud of this group.

Patricia Cornwell

Well, I don't know. But if you can, I'll take my chances. I'd like them to prove he didn't do it.

We'll have to wait to see how things progress through the process. We still have a long way to go through the session.

to make progress on reforming their foreign-exchange regime.

Harmon Killebrew

Tony had that problem with throwing his bat,

We're taking our time with him. He's too valuable a prospect not to take your time with him. We want to make sure everything's done right and he can come back as well as can be expected.

We all have to prove who we are by how we play.

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

There is a lot of stuff offered, but we are having a problem getting it over.

The public has to be protected from these unscrupulous practices.

Stephen Jay Gould

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

There is no real success for the Xbox unless it proves successful in Japan.

Mitch McConnell

We're not quietly killing it; we're proudly killing it. We're not apologizing for killing this unconstitutional bill." ()

Michelle Gardner

We're not putting much stock into it. That's what they think and your only thing is to prove them wrong.