Famous Quotes & Sayings

Errol Morris

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

Jerry York

We probably got the team that travels best, despite last weekend at Lowell.

Alex Tabarrok

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Lawrence Kutner

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

Bob Ainsworth

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Chris Adrian

There are reasons to go on living despite what horrors may come in your life. And love informs those reasons.

Philip Reeve

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Paul Muldoon

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Neal Miller

We plan on starting our clean-up efforts in about three weeks after getting our permits from the county.

Ban Ki-moon

Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Lauren Tarshis

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Janet Reno

Unfortunately the Miami relatives rejected our efforts leaving us no other option but the enforcement action,

Nick Russo

We are renewing our efforts to identify and reach people who may not have registered for various reasons and need more time to apply.

Kofi Annan

We must redouble our efforts in working toward a world free of nuclear dangers, and ultimately, of nuclear weapons,

Dave Odom

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonight.

Jerry Collins

We're waiting to hear from our people on the ground. Our efforts go to long-term recovery,

Russ Knocke

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Carolina Herrera

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Adrian McKinty

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Michael Chertoff

Our role is not to repair the dikes. Our role is to step in if something happens.

Tony McCoy

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

Mitch Basefsky

There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.

George Herbert

A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.

Eric Rabe

Some other services may be slower as well, like repair or installation.

Lewis B. Smedes

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Dick Cheney

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. With respect to how that's affected or regulated by the State, those are State decisions. Different States are likely to make different decisions based upon their own wishes and desire of the people of the State, and that's perfectly acceptable.

Ludwig von Mises

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.