Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Aldo Leopold

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

David F. Houston

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the trash can. "Right there would be fine.

Arsenio Hall

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Bertrand Russell

Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.

Charles Barkley

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Charles Spurgeon

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Ayn Rand

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

C. S. Lewis

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

Alain de Botton

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Paula Jones

previous perjured answers he gave under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

John Chaney

Our players on the outside, when they make baskets, it answers a lot of questions for us. When we don't make baskets, we're not a good team at all.

Roger Warren

Some of the players were asked about the name of the course, 'Baltusrol,' and gave some interesting answers (like) 'I think it's an Indian Tribe.'

Lorraine Reed

That day was the beginning of another journey. We not only wanted answers as to why this happened, but we had to find a way to cope with this tragedy. As the process unfolded, we began to find victims had few rights.

Mike Town

Overall, it sounds pretty responsible. There's definitely more questions than answers on this issue ... but I'm pleased with the results of the study.

Bob Semling

Overall, I don't know if we hold any secret answers over Stout. I don't think they have any doubts or fears playing us.

Luis Miranda

Republicans owe the American people answers as to where they really stand.

Kenny Williams

People who think they have all of the answers in this game, those are the people I try to stay away as far away from as I can, ... If you ever think you know it all, it's probably time to go and do something else.

Beeban Kidron

Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.