Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Kelly Miller

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Kelly Miller

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Talcott Parsons

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Randy Katz

Some may think that they will have a greater likelihood of autonomy and success at Boston Scientific, as opposed to being eaten up by the J&J machine.

Zhou Xiaochuan

Fund surveillance should comply with the objective of promoting exchange and financial stability and respect the autonomy as to exchange-rate systems that is granted to all members.

Duncan Clark

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

Shatha Atiya

He's going to lose his autonomy for a while, and his passport for sure.

Richard Peddie

He has complete autonomy for the basketball operation.

Steven Mintz

We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom,

Noah Feldman

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them, not even the last, and each was younger than the previous woman... But after his personal life began to actually fall apart, he developed a set of values about the Constitution that turned out to maximize our autonomy and freedom.

Michael Franc

You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Mike Williamson

Regardless of the results, we played outstanding in the first. We played at both ends of the ice, shot the puck finally. We didn't get rewarded, but there's not many times you won't if you keep playing like that.

Jim Brandt

Rebecca is within 7 points of qualifying for state and Alyssa is with in 20 points. I see both of them qualifying at GNAC in Hastings.

Tomasz Beer

Reasons for this trend are not really known, but may include a desire to do something rather than do nothing on the part of both physicians and patients. Unfortunately, these men may be enduring significant side effects for an uncertain benefit.

George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

David Wade

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

Vinny Testaverde

Really, you just hold your breath and hope that he's okay and that it wasn't a concussion. I kind of had one eye on him and one eye on the field because it was obviously a critical situation for us to win the game there. But I guess you could say that we lost on both ends today - losing Wayne and the game.

Andy Reid

Reggie is well deserving of his Hall of Fame induction. In my mind, he will go down as the greatest defensive end in NFL history. He was a great teammate and a fun player to coach. As good as a player as he was on the field, he was an even better person off the field. He left a lasting legacy, both in the NFL and in the community.

Andrew Yang

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Allan Hoffenblum

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, and the governor is involved in a special election that has nothing to do with the president. Both are having political problems now, so other than cordiality, there's really no reason for them to be together.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Jon Evans

Our lack of execution on offense created very quick transitions,

Jennifer Hall

Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in God's image and God loves us. Orientation is not an issue with God.

Ash Rajan

Oracle is really a leader in that B2B niche, and it's made such a splash in that new niche because it's created that niche for itself, and it's doing extremely well. Obviously, if you want to time the stock, you pick it on a day when the stock price is down, but if you're a core-holding type of a buyer, Oracle should be right at the top of your list, without eyeing the price so much, if business-to-business e-commerce is your priority.

Allan Smith

Steelcase's dedication to protecting and preserving the environment serves as a steady drumbeat throughout the company, and greatly influences what products are created, how they are created and why.

Buck Kicinski

Stats are created for sportswriters. Stats are not a measure of you as a ballplayer, and not of us as a team.

James Gregory

Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn't like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

A. N. Wilson

People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.

Oscar Wilde

Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Steven Levitt

Some of these deceased personalities have Q scores equal to or greater than some of the live personalities we measure,

Jacques Herzog

Our goal here was to give equal importance to visitors, nature and art,

Brian Gordon

Reservations don't equal sales. There are several investors placing refundable deposits on multiple projects around town. But when it comes time to sign the contract, they will often re-evaluate their selection.

Chris Hester

Playing football gives me a reason to study. For me good grades equal football.

David Sanborn

People who really understood the use of space and the fact that the sound and the silence are of equal weight and that what you're doing is really manipulating space. It's the same as a painting except that you're doing it aurally.

B. R. Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Donald Evans

Regarding your first question on the free trade agreement, as I said earlier, we are going to be very sensitive to the needs of Morocco.

Denny Green

Reggie has shown he can play tackle, guard and center. I think if it (unrestricted free agency) goes the way we want it to go, then I think that's the way we would go play the season, with him at left guard.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Zoltan Torok

People just lived better and better. It was like a free lunch for voters.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Courtney Taylor

Success is having two things: a little more free time than you know what to do with and a little more money than you know what to do with,

Tim Floyd

Stanford stayed tough. They made their free throws when they were needed.

Jim Wilson

Some of the property owners took the free lights and installed them at their own expense.

Mike Davis

Our plan was to miss the second free throw at 0:00.8. Since it went to two (seconds) we had to make the second free throw. At 2.1 a lot of things could happen in that situation.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Peter Costello

part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.

Alfred Jarry

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.

Jim Neal

Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely.

Kathy Smith

Some of those issues are things that are going on at the individual sites. People are pulled in every way and sometimes things just get overlooked.

John Cornyn

on the side of justice and individual liberties.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

B. F. Skinner

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Roger Germann

Rod is worried about votes 20 years ago, but we are about to lose $13 million for traffic safety.

Ed Farmer

Maybe it made him realize he had to lose weight to get his swing back and to take pressure off his foot.

E. O. Wilson

Man, I think we just got to the point where if we were going to lose, we were going to lose fighting. If you don't like the way it's going, you have to do something about it. We did something about it, we got after them in the second half.

Martin Rees

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Freddy Keiaho

That's the luck of the game. That's something you can't prepare for. In the end, we lose as a team.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Paulo Coelho

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Wayne Dyer

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.