Famous Quotes & Sayings

David S. Goyer

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

Hjalmar Schacht

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.

Henry Laurens

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Jim Allchin

We are on track to complete Vista this year. Given that customers have wanted us to be very precise and any mistakes made might impact the business, we have decided to come out with a high assurance date everyone can count on.

Mark Fox

The only assurance we have is, because we won our league, we would be in the NIT. All respect to the NIT, but that's not where these kids want to go.

Lewis Hallam

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Bill Watterson

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Jim Ryun

In fact, after the Senate passed it, I went straight to the committee chairman and said we need to see if we can at least have a hearing and move forward on it, ... He gave me some sense of assurance he'd go back and look at it again.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Marc Chandler

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

Rob Bennett

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Harry Forbes

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

Toll Holdings

Toll has reviewed the ASX release made by Patrick Corporation today in relation to its expectation of Pacific National results for the six months to December 31, 2005, and considers this release to be premature and unconfirmed.

Orison Swett Marden

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

Simon Smith

In the light of these developments, Mr. Timberlake has decided not to pursue these proceedings and considers that his reputation has been fully vindicated.

Foreign Ministry

Iran considers pursuing unconditional talks with the three European countries useful and welcomes it under the current circumstances.

Harvey Korman

And I'll tell you somebody else who was a straight man and considers himself a straight man and describes himself as one, Cary Grant.

Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Timothy Noah

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

Vicente Fox

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

Paul Wolfowitz

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

Porter Goss

Unilateral operations will return to be part of the governing paradigm for the CIA,

Larry Sabato

When you've got this many people maneuvering, it eliminates the period of governing that used to be guaranteed between elections.

Don Lemon

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.

Matthew Arnold

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

Avigdor Lieberman

I am sure that next time we will be the governing party.

Jack Murehwa

Realistically no investor will release significantly large sums of money for projects in Zimbabwe before knowing the rules and regulations governing the industry.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Ban Ki-moon

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Charles Spurgeon

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Al Sharpton

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

Al Pacino

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Giordano Bruno

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Lemn Sissay

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Russ Oaks

There are other projects with pressing needs that have taken priority at this point in time.

William Cavendish

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.

Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Kim Weston

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

George Steiner

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

Mark Ruffalo

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.