Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

Christina Baker Kline

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

John C. Calhoun

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

Brian Greene

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Eric Stoltz

It seems that whatever we do is somehow beyond reproach - murder, rape, drunk driving - as long as we go on a TV show and apologize.

Douglas Conant

Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.

Reuben Mark

We project double-digit earnings, and our expectation is we will be there for the year, wherever oil settles, because if it goes out of sight, our expectation is that we will be able to raise prices. Beyond that, we are less dependent on oil than many.

Tina Weymouth

Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

Seth Berkley

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Daniel Webster

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Fatou Bensouda

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

John Hopkins

What we have shown here is the vast majority of those cases are preventable,

Mike Birbiglia

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Linda Boyd

We did the march in 1995 and it was wonderful, but we see that our people are still in the same position we were in 10 years ago - and in some cases worse off. So while a march is important, we'd like to see a movement.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We don't have a mandate to discuss the nuclear issue with the Americans ... but if the talks on Iraq go in the right direction, there might be a possibility for that issue. There have been many cases where big and wide-ranging decisions had small beginnings.

Bob Beamon

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

John Ross

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

Chris Hall

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

David Goldberg

Most patients who have been treated by a rental laser don't know it until it actually happens.

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Edward Miller

Patients who are receiving therapies, come here for hope, are not going to be able to receive that because of this issue.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Gary Vaynerchuk

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.

Noel Gallagher

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Howard Deutsch

It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.