Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.

David Byrne

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.

Andy Xie

The policy is still very defensive. The government doesn't know what's going to replace the economic activity that is being moved to China.

Paul Sheard

The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.

Andrew Mitchell

The pickup in construction of new homes is good news for the Australian building industry, pointing to firmer activity ahead.

Richard Donnell

The pick up in activity levels and prices over the final quarter has created optimism that values will continue to rise slowly over the year ahead. The recovery in London is set to continue and spread to the Southeast over the year.

Huda Zoghbi

The overall picture we have now is that glutamine expansion causes some aspects of the pathology of SCA1 in part by enhancing the activity of the domain that is outside the glutamine repeat.

Norbert Ore

The overall picture is one of continued softening in manufacturing activity during the month of December.

John Boswell

The past month has been filled with prospect activity. We have had inquiries and site visits from several quality prospects. The increase in prospect activity is an encouraging sign for what may come over the next 12 to 18 months.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Warren Bennis

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

William Cavendish

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vincent Cassel

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

H. Hart

When are people going to link up the costs of rebuilding New Orleans with the cost of rebuilding Iraq? It's going to equate to, where are we spending our money and what are we doing?

Anthony Wong

What you wear or who you are with or how much your meal costs have nothing to do with the public interest.

David Houghton

We are not likely to get a sudden drop in production because farmers have fixed costs that must be covered, irrespective of whether they produce.

James Fallows

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

Robert Shaw

We are having a delayed response to an improving market because construction and land costs are creating a situation where the new projects can't be underwritten. The rents aren't moving enough to support a lot of new development.

Rick Jackson

This needs a red light, or let us know what it costs for a light. The damage to one person in a wreck versus the cost of a red light, it don't even compare.

Jack Messman

We are just getting warmed up. With the increased software and hardware costs of Microsoft 's Vista , now is the time to give open source a real look.

Steven Sinofsky

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Robin S. Sharma

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Brian Bruce

With the end of employee discounts, I think there's going to be a halt of traffic to GM's showrooms. It's never a good time for a disruption like this, but GM could have had it at a worse time.

Red Cavaney

In fact, there are news reports today that the Congressional Research Service has attributed the gasoline price situation in the Midwest to supply disruption problems and the use of reformulated gasoline with ethanol,

Kevin Brooks

This has resulted in less disruption to GPCA's services this summer.

Lawrence Eagles

We have responded to a very specific physical supply disruption and we will review that response as we go further forward.

Rob Yingling

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

Lucy Jones

We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Bobby Seale

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Dan Moran

We need more bipartisanship. We need to question our leaders,

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.