Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Greg Allen

Since I got here, one of our goals has been to reach out to our former players. Having them come back and support our team means a lot to me and our program.

Brad McClellan

She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Katie Couric

But first this is the President's seventh, seventh trip to the hurricane zone and the former oilman is getting a real firsthand look at the devastation that's there.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Ian Martin

The people of East Timor, whatever side of the issue they are on, are determined to have their say in this ballot.

Suzy Menkes

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Jack Barnes

The process will determine that (a replacement), ... It might not happen. Senator Eaton might be able to rally the troops.

Temple Grandin

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Norman Williams

We are going to look into these allegations and determine whether or not these people whose policies were canceled were (treated) in a fair and appropriate manner.

Paul Hawkins

This will only make us more determined to live in peace and respect each other and we can all play our part in that,