Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Michael Polzin

We have to follow the law. We don't have a choice in this matter.

Saudi Arabia

We have no other choice. Those who say nothing create the impression that they secretly want to see the prophet be insulted.

Jeff Ulbrich

We have no other choice but to stay positive. We have no other choice.

Frank Maloney

We have no choice but to pull Scott out. I am hoping that the fight can be rescheduled for later in the month but I just don't know what the prospects of that happening are at the moment.

Dan Kelly

We have no choice but to pick up what the state has refused to fund,

Dennis Davin

We have no choice but to initiate foreclosure.

Clinton Solomon

We have no choice but to get ready. We've got to take strides everyday in practice.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Bobby Harper

The real classroom is out in the field.

Libba Bray

It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?'

Robert Shaw

We did not have much of a break. The teachers, faculty and I all worked to get our offices and classrooms set up before the students returned. I think the community will be proud of our new facility.

Bob Carolis

We strive to be successful in the classroom and on the fields of play. While we feel our numbers are good, we will continue to strive to excel in the classroom and develop future leaders.

Michelle Miller

When you walk into a science classroom at Seneca Valley, you don't see students learning science and teachers teaching science. You see scientists at work.

Nick Robinson

I'm a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect.

Chris Kouns

She is a great role model for our program because she does well in the classroom and on the field. We are really happy to have Michelle in our program.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Elizabeth Emken

We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.

Evangeline Lilly

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

Bill Hall

I am embracing being in the lineup, no matter how I get in there.

Ira Sachs

I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

Chris Willard

The play is about three different women who live in the same town and whose lives intersect in a lot of different ways. I thought what was interesting was what the story has to say about embracing your life and realizing your potential. It is a solid message to give to the audience.

Constance Wu

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside and outside. We were going to keep going to him until he got tired.

Aaron Rodgers

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

The Mighty Hannibal

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Libba Bray

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

John Lydon

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Tom Watson

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Susan B. Anthony

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Travis Fimmel

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Carlton Cuse

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Kim Maher

(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.

Michiel Huisman

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

Chris Evans

I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!

Raymond Seed

You have multiple agencies, some of which aren't on speaking terms with each other.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Brian Dawkins

The questions you have are the things we just have to go play through,

Scott Anderson

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

Aaron Miles

There are a lot of questions around here.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Theo Rossi

I'm so crazy now about 'organic' and 'fresh' and stuff that's 'free range.'

Brian Eno

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Brian Eno

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

David Mitchell

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Dean Wareham

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

Dennis Hastert

We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,

Dolly Parton

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

David Letterman

This Hillary Clinton scandal has to do with emails. All I get are emails for Canadian Viagra.

David Miles

There's not that much viable agriculture in this county.

Jack Nicholson

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

Richard Notebaert

I like to think of this as a Viagra for competition.

Bryan Stevenson

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Jandy Nelson

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

Charles Spurgeon

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Chris Brown

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Barbara Kingsolver

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Brian Austin Green

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

Brad Henry

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.