Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Schultz

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Mohsin Hamid

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Andrew Blakely

I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was saying its going to $US5 (a barrel) ... it was unbelievable to even comprehend a $US50 (a barrel) oil price.

Patti Smith

I did not comprehend and I often wonder what he ever saw in me, and it has taken me all these years to understand.

Michelle Dawson

No one can comprehend the loss here unless they've been up here. This is a mystical place.

Gary Hume

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

Fred Allvine

Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.

Michael Leunig

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Nicolas Davila

A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions.

Magda Apanowicz

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

Jennifer Grey

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Nolan North

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,