Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Alan Moore

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Austin Dobson

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

William Shakespeare

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Mark Evans

We are not trained to really make any medical diagnoses. All we can say is there are high levels of some contaminants there, particularly uranium and arsenic, and there probably is -- or may be -- a dust problem.

Tony MacAulay

We have nowhere to go but up. Everybody realizes that. The quicker we dust ourselves off and start running again, the better our hockey team?s going to be. Are people (ticked) off? Yeah, they?re pretty (ticked) off.

Craig Shoemaker

We'll have a big threat from the dust storms this spring. Last year of course, was a short monsoon season and it was late starting.

William R. Alger

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Dan Ford

Wasn't their mess. Was the loose mess that had already gathered the night before. Lemme tell you...they did clean.

Ludivine Sagnier

I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

Neil Sheehan

We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.

Joshua Reynolds

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Pat Riley

We gathered ourselves really well in the third quarter and played really well.

Jim Montgomery

By legend, after the shows performers and stagehands gathered to play poker hands.

Romeo Crennel

I think they gathered together and played better (in the second half). We didn't play as well and they were able to slow him down.

Marcia Danchise

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Sophia Amoruso

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

Tommy Caldwell

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

Trip Adler

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have learned that our city's strength is unbreakable,

Pam Brown

We have learned not to be overconfident when it comes to requesting any type of taxation. However, West Vincent has a proven track record with how transferable development rights are used.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Dave Wannstedt

We probably know each other better from an offensive-defensive standpoint than a personal standpoint.

Lewis B. Smedes

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Anna Kendrick

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

John Dulles

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.