Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. M. Roberts

The Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing the patent.

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Richard Rohr

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different.

Charles Francis Richter

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

Charles Francis Richter

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

Dries van Noten

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

Seung Sahn

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

William Jennings Bryan

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Jalal Talabani

We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country.

Walter Lippmann

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Phaedrus

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Lao Tzu

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

James Nicholson

When Yuri detects narcotics or other substances, he's trained to sit and put his nose on the location where the substance is hidden. Sometimes he'll get himself into a pretty contorted position trying to show me where something is located.

Svetlana Zhurova

We did so well because our president loves sport and because he himself is sporty.

Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Patrick Modiano

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

William Shakespeare

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Charles de Gaulle

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles Dickens

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Charles Caleb Colton

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Alanis Morissette

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Alanis Morissette

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

Dave Barry

Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations...

Le Corbusier

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Alan Cohen

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

In the broken places, the light shines through.

Sen Freedman

The reaction of Northeast Utilities, particularly the Connecticut Light & Power division, to the winter storm during the week of Jan. 15, 2006, was unconscionable.

David Briggs

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel?.

Ian Shepherdson

There is at least some light at the end of the tunnel, but unfortunately it is still a long way off,

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Michael McCabe

When you're releasing that many people, unfortunately mistakes can happen.

Mike Reese

When you're playing someone that's not quite as skilled and well-coached as New Albany, you can make mistakes. When you play a team this good, you can't.

Roy Williams

When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.

Ron Holmes

We didn't play very consistently; we were making very uncharacteristic mistakes. We played a lot better on Sunday, but if we play like that anymore, we will have a rough time with the rest of our schedule.

Brandon Matich

We had some mistakes when we had the momentum.

Kevin Keegan

was not strong enough and made too many mistakes.

David Jones

Today, VoIP is where wireless was 10 years ago. We can't repeat the mistakes made with 9-1-1 and wireless phones again.

Mark Elston

To Lansing's credit, when you have all seniors, those mistakes don't always take place.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Meir Soloveichik

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

O. J. Simpson

We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.

Ring Lardner

Where do they get that stuff about me being a satirist? I just listen.

Kelly Scott

We have to worry about the stuff in the refrigerator.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not targeting players. Retaliation and all that stuff doesn't have any place.

Zack Snyder

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

Christopher Sullivan

We've got stuff we've got to do now,

Al Pacino

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Al Jarreau

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.