Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Steve Blake

Our real identity is one which appeals to the traditional families, hard-working young couples, the pensioners and students of Britain.

Michael East

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

John Zimmerman

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

Dave Winfield

Roberto Clemente, not only because you played right field like it was supposed to be played, but your humanitarian efforts will live on forever.

Tracy Austin

Robert became the most important force in my life for my young tennis career. He was part father, part brother, part tyrant. The perfect coach.

Casey Stengel

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Len Dawson

I was just fortunate that it was detected in the early stages. Unfortunately my brother Ron wasn't so lucky. He lost his battle with the disease.

Michael East

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Peter Selley

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

Jacques Chirac

Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,

Eric Wicks

Patterson tries to complete the pass instead of running the ball. So I was depending on him to throw the pass. It was a big read.

Michael McKean

Part of it is what it's always been -- the vicarious thrill of seeing people who are much richer and more famous live lives that are wonderful, even if they are complete fakes. I think people simultaneously worship and despise celebrities.

Rachel Miner

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Larry Ellison

Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,

Robert Mayer

Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The program also has crashed on some consumers before they could complete it.

Michael Leavitt

Our preparations are not yet complete nor are they adequate,

Stephen Jones

Our goal is to complete it (jury selection) sometime this month, to start evidence and opening statements by the end of the month -- that's the judge's goal and we are all working toward that.

Source Unknown

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Algernon Sidney

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Richard Steele

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

Don Martin

That's not going to be an easy conquest for him. He's got a lot of unhappy campers in the trenches.

James Thompson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Muhammad

The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Heraldo Munoz

It is not ideal but it is still a noteworthy improvement. It is a new institutional framework that will oversee the promotion and protection of human rights for many decades.

Ahmad Fawzi

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Kozo Yamamoto

So long as there is a solid framework in place, it's up to the BOJ.

Lee Myung-bak

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

Sophia Amoruso

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Vladimir Putin

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Herbie Hancock

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

Bob Latta

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

Akhmed Zakayev

This was a legitimate military operation which took place in the framework of the Caucasus front.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

Jim Collins

We move them back and forth. We're there to work for the inclusion of all people within the community.

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Olivia Thirlby

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Alva Noto

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Seamus Heaney

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

John Barton

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Kirstie Alley

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Don Stewart

That resulted in the seizure of some documentation.