Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Hume

Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

David Brin

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Blaise Pascal

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Jef Field

We're just finding ways to win. One game we'll play real well defensively, and then in that second game (Monday) we made five errors and still found a way to win the game.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Arthur Koestler

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

Arthur Koestler

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

Ayrton Senna

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk (Bonds), even before Mo was here. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

Kid Nichols

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Grant Hill

We had been to the Final Four a few times. But we weren't thought of at the time like we are now.

Bobby Jones

When I have started him, he hasn't played as well. I guess he just needs to watch for a few minutes before he goes in. That seems to work. We are still finding out what works, but this team is giving me great effort.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Maria Semple

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Laurynas Mikalauskas

We needed a few stops; that's what we were thinking. I wasn't really actually worried that we were going to lose because I knew that my teammates were going to pull it out. I knew we could play better.

Jack Garrison

We needed a few more pins, they pinned us more than we pinned them and that hurt us. But I'm proud of the kids. Every week they look a little better.

Adriano Galliani

We needed a few additions to an already impressive roster.

David Icke

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

David Duchovny

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Bear Grylls

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Barry Alvarez

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Arnold Palmer

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

Arnold Palmer

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

Wes Parent

We actually had a 3-1 lead in the first period and then we ran into penalty trouble and they (Port Perry) scored two power-play goals to even the game at 3-3 after the first period.

Bruce Reichman

We always have a good game with them. They're a tough team. They're very physical and very well-coached.

John Krasinski

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

Carlos Beltran

When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a step back. And when it was time for me to come forward, it was too late for me.

Sean Singletary

When he hit that, I knew he was going to be hot.

Alex Padilla

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.

J. D. Souther

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

David Viscott

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Hume

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.

David Duchovny

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

David Duchovny

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.

David Duchovny

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I hurt so many people.

Ben Stiller

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

Barney Frank

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

Audrey Hepburn

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

Bob Baffert

Sinister Minister, you can't control. He just runs off. . . . He's a runaway train.

Robb Quinlan

If we're going out and scoring one or two runs a game, it is tough to win ballgames.

Pat Smith

We've done test runs on and off for two years now. When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.

Pat Smith

We've done test runs on and off for two years now, ... When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.

Joe Nelson

He's a big kid, who, for his size, is agile, runs well and is still powerful.

Dick LeBeau

He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.

Tony Gerharz

We have to be better than that. There are going to be a lot of runs scored at Sunset Park. Kimberly did the runs scoring.

Dean Montzingo

He (Tyler) runs the show. We're comfortable about that.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value.

Kevin Pietersen

We set our target to score about 400 in the first innings. We're about 240 short after the first day.

Brett Hull

You have to know how to score.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Kelli Johnson

We had better shot selection in the second half.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Tom Zbikowski

We are a little uneasy but the secondary will make plays. After we get settled in you will see that we make plays.

Steve Frady

Obviously, you don't want to see a second collapse.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Megan Smith

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Tim Barrett

I think they wore us down. We were struggling getting into our half-court offense.

Errol Alcott

I think he's struggling for this weekend, that's for sure.

John Haddan

We were struggling the first time through the league.

Tay Fisher

We have been struggling away from home. Our home-to-away ratio, wins-wise, it's not real good. But right now it's buckle-down time.