Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

Gustave Courbet

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Wallace Shawn

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Clive Granger

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Sylvia Porter

One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already

George Shinn

But we've got to remember the economics have to be there to support it,

Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

Paul Mendelsohn

Most traders will really be positioning for the October employment report. Economists are expecting that non-farm payrolls rose by approximately 50,000 during the month, providing evidence that with two straight months of employment growth, the jobs picture is finally turning around.

Ronald Coase

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

Ha-Joon Chang

Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Edmund Phelps

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

Tom Daschle

I think it is fair to say that there is a growing number of economists that question the stimulus,

Matt Sparks

She is able to run, but it's really painful. As a coach, you've got to figure out what you can put a kid through. It's an ethical thing. It could be good, but it could be not as good.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Ellis Rubin

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

Adrian Grenier

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Clare Short

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

Anita Sarkeesian

I find crowdfunding to be one of the most ethical ways to continue doing the work that we do because the idea is that I want my videos to be free and available to everybody, and that's why I use YouTube and online platforms.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Indian Proverb

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Bill Johnson

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

Deborah Harkness

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

David Hilbert

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Daniel H. Wilson

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Edward Witten

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Ben Stein

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

Michael White

Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day.

Albert Einstein

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Beth Moore

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Lee Hamilton

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.

Jozef Stumpel

We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Dave Barry

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

David Sarnoff

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

Simon Travaglia

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

Liz Williams

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.