Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Hugh Wirth

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast,

William Congreve

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

William Hastie

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Christopher Stone

We usually have about 50-60 dogs in the day. We go up as high as 25 dogs for the overnight.

Taylor Handley

I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

Ellen Potter

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

John McWhorter

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Jan Johnson

We are prepared for at least 250 dogs and cats. Right now we have three to four veterinarians on staff. All the food has been donated from local grocery stores, pet stores, Second Harvest in Milwaukee.

Cory Smith

Where there was water, you would see packs of dogs swimming.

Sharon Smith

Word of mouth is, two individuals have been scouring the area, finding high-price value dogs and selling them with fake papers.

Jerry Moore

We'll be giving people obedience tips for their dogs and how to get their puppies started properly.

Paul Souza

We've seen responses that these genetic problems are being eliminated.

Mark Hyman

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

John Ballantyne

What we're looking for is the possibility of a genetic eyewitness.

Robert Casey

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Brian Evans

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

Anne Wojcicki

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

Richard Pound

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

Rodney Brooks

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

Greg Owens

One of those things where it just kicks you in the teeth.

Behati Prinsloo

I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

Leon Washington

We don't make kicks down here in Miami. I don't know what it is. Somebody put something on us.

A. Hodge

We'll never be a team that kicks away from anybody.

Reid Scott

If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.

Michaela McManus

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

John Benedetto

We don't play him much defensively because he's such a threat on offense. Plus, he returns kicks for us. We use him where he's best, and that's at the receiver position.

Aeschylus

Do not kick against the pricks.

Madonna Ciccone

It's not my nature to just kick back.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Trudi Canavan

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Brett Somers

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Bat for Lashes

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

John Wilson

We're still recovering bodies, and all the low crossings, the creeks, have flooded,

Pete Eliades

We have no problem if they tax everybody. But they don't. ... We just want the public to know the truth.

Lily Tomlin

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.

Christine Callies

The problem with the tech sector is not so much a fundamental problem as a valuations problem.

Miriam Santiago

The problem with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here.

Joe Duffy

The problem with security standards is that there are so many of them.

Hitesh Sheth

The problem with psychiatry is, it doesn't know what the problem is.

Kent Conrad

The reality here is we've got a problem here and it's a big problem.

Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Dale Carnegie

Keep on raging - to stop the aging.

Diane Cilento

I've always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Charles Caleb Colton

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Brandon Lee

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill Maher

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

George White

When we get them, we immediately go out there and abate it. We have no tolerance for that.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Aristotle

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.