Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Wilson Schaef

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

Radhanath Swami

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Tom Brokaw

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

Noam Chomsky

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Robert Mintz

We have not seen any glimpse of his legendary, hair- trigger temper or the arrogance that personified his conduct at Enron.

Alan Kay

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Edgar Friedenberg

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Vince Vaughn

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Emma Thompson

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Ellen Key

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Sally Kellerman

Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.

Dave Forney

We're dying to play and very upset that we didn't get to play (last Friday). It's good to play. We don't want to take it slow with just two games our first week.

ASAP Rocky

On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.

Fredrik Nilsson

We hadn't released anything for three to three and half years. We just felt like we had been away for so long, and we've just been dying to tell all our fans how we missed them.

Michael Rich

We were just so devastated. We saw all the people that were dying and all the homes that were ruined.

Jean Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all

Robert Kiyosaki

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Charles de Lint

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

Samuel Butler

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Brian Schmidt

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Charles Bukowski

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

William Tyndale

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

English Proverbs

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

Ronald Reagan

We relax at the ranch, which if not heaven itself, probably has the same zip code.

William Wordsworth

Type of the wise who soar but never roam;True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

William Shakespeare

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

William Shakespeare

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Stephen Hawking

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Alan Stern

These policies represented the hopes and the plans of those that were murdered in the Holocaust. They had taken out policies in order to protect their families.

Ahmed Khan

This has led to recurrent crises. One hopes it is different this time.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Brian Morris

When something like this happens, you get your hopes up and they just get dashed.

Ethiopian Proverb

What one hopes for is always better than what one has

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Greg Gazin

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Jacques Chirac

We have been totally unanimous in our reaction and have shown solidarity, the G8 and the states that joined us for this summit,

W. G. Sebald

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Hal Boyle

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Sinclair Lewis

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Corbin Bernsen

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Ron Heck

We produce a lot of soy, but none of us are on the scale of the Brazilian growers.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Anna Paquin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Warren Sapp

You know what, none of what he's done has been all that bad,

Charles Kent

You know the Mayor's always talking about quality of life, but there is none around here,

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

Samuel Butler

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Pierce Brosnan

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Brad Salem

We still have the same (offensive) philosophy. We spread it out and put the weight on the quarterback's shoulders.

William Osler

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Ludwig von Mises

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Ludwig von Mises

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

Ludwig von Mises

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Ludwig von Mises

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.