Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Quammen

Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

Anthony Crescenzi

There are hints now that the worst may be over in the labor story.

Alain de Botton

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

Nichelle Nichols

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

Gena Showalter

Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.

Jeaniene Frost

A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?

Tim Heekin

All of the numbers this week are potentially market moving. I think people will be watching the numbers for hints about inflation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

Amar Singh

There is confusion regarding the position of the External Affairs Minister. We are trying for the membership of the Security Council of the United Nation. The UN has set up a high-level enquiry committee, which found the involvement of some companies of Switzerland, Italy and India, and after that Singh gave a statement that he is being implicated for supporting Saddam Hussein's regime.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.

Lloyd Cutler

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

Lisa Cholodenko

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.

Susan Moeller

We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death.

Jose Vicente

This puts in its place the argument the U.S. government has tried to use against Chavez that he meddles in the affairs of other countries,

Marilyn Monroe

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Felipe Noguera

When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, the IMF can't poke its nose into your affairs even though IMF money is cheaper than the money that's available on the open market.

Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Dogen

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Albert Einstein

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Margaret Haddix

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,

Manny Pacquiao

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Richard Rohr

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.