Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

David Hume

From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

David Beckham

Wayne can play any position but the way he plays for Manchester United, just off the main striker, is unstoppable. He runs at players and that is what causes teams most problems.

Denzel Washington

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Blaise Pascal

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Bill James

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Bill Hicks

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Manish Agarwal

We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happened very quickly, giving us very little time to react.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

John Walke

This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple,

Rig Veda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Brandy Corbett

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Keyshawn Johnson

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

Richard Flanagan

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

Rhys Ifans

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World

Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

Deborah Harkness

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

Eric Maskin

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Felix Rohatyn

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Octavio Paz

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

Kenneth Langone

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

K. V. Thomas

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

Sean Carroll

The mechanisms that make the small differences between species are the same ones that make the big differences between kingdoms,

Paskah Suzetta

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

John Robertson

The mechanism is relating the wrong things. The scarcity problem is not being addressed.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

William Cleaver

Most times when you only get that many yards, you lose. We have to pick it up.

Michael Doyle

Most of the students pick it up as upperclassmen.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Bill Davoren

She has the potential to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Joe Pokraka

She's only a freshman, but she has the potential to score a lot of points. She's very gifted, she has it all.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Charles Clarke

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Gia Coppola

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Mark Richt

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

Alan Culpepper

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.

Jamie Oliver

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

Augusten Burroughs

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

Ben Feldman

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Michael Buckley

We're scheduled to go (today); no problems with the spacecraft. We'll see how the weather goes.

Manju Warrier

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

Juan Carlos

Nothing at all. Nothing at all. My son had no problems with anybody,

Baron Davis

I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

Antonin Artaud

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

Alain Aspect

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

Alain de Botton

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

Kenko Yoshida

Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.

Arthur Miller

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

Ayn Rand

Money is the root of all good.

Bryant H. McGill

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

Bryant H. McGill

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

David Hockney

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Al Gore

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

Jami Attenberg

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

Augusten Burroughs

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

Benjamin Disraeli

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

Edward Norton

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Liz Williams

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.

Wayne Tartline

(Mayo) got done wrong in a whole lot of ways.

Sasha Adams

She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ed White

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Anthony Horowitz

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.