Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

David Cameron

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Amar Bose

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Gene Simmons

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Eric Ries

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Bijou Phillips

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.