Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth L. Pike

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Kelly Miller

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Kelly Miller

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Talcott Parsons

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Karl Benson

Regardless of the number of teams, you are always looking for something that distinguishes one team from another. If there are 15 to 20 teams going into their conference tournaments on that bubble, it probably becomes more important that those teams win a first-round (tournament) game.

Mike Simpson

Religion is also quite different. Each faction has their own gods, and choosing which gods to build temples to becomes a major decision.

Jed Hoyer

Our reports are good. Keith will be ready to go. He had a down year last year and we expect him to bounce back. With the depth that we have in our bullpen, it becomes a pretty exciting proposition putting those guys together.

Gary Bettman

Our players play all year for their NHL teams. We, as an accommodation to the Olympics, take a break. We're going to go, but to the extent players are injured it becomes a very personal decision as to what the right thing to do is. And I don't think people should second-guess them.

David Belle

Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.

Ellis Krauss

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the party stands for, which can be communicated to a large number of people only by media, especially TV, becomes a more important factor.

Cindy Williams

Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different.

Doug Johnson

Our members stress that competition in the world of retail is intense and (they) resolve most problems without burdensome regulation that can be counter-productive. If state regulation becomes too burdensome or punitive, merchants will stop selling them.

James Salter

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

John Cumisky

Staying closed wasn't even an option. The customers demanded it.

Wayne Minnaar

Roads around the court will be closed and there will be a large police contingent to control the crowds.

Otis Smith

We now consider the matter closed and look forward to Steve's return to practice tomorrow.

Rose Taylor

I went to work at Hialeah Lanes in 1955. That closed after 15 or so years and I went to Palm Springs Lanes also in Hialeah. The lanes kept closing and I kept moving north.

Alex Kovalev

That was an accident. I didn't know where to go so I closed my eyes and made a move.

Richard Wood

It has been closed for more than two years and has become a danger to the health and safety of residents and visitors alike.

Ramesh Chennithala

It is not a closed chapter. The UDF government will continue discussions with the concerned communities on the issue and will find a solution.

Phil Arnold

I was very pleased with the guys tonight, as times were improved from what they have been running on our home course. Again, however, there are some gaps in times that must be closed in order for us to compete as the season progresses.

Abdul Aziz

I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know whether we would find another leader for the council.

Dixie Carter

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.

Goodman Ace

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Mark Rush

If the government illegally seizes evidence, not only that evidence can be suppressed but any evidence that was derived therefrom or obtained as a result of that evidence. So we will be moving toward a dismissal of that indictment in its entirety.

Lisa Pierce

If technologically and economically feasible, it is unlikely that providers will only offer high-speed Internet access. Most telecom revenues are derived from voice and data-centric providers who ignored voice have had a hard time of making ends meet.

Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

P. J. Harvey

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

John Luther

What we're having a problem with is, where was the three-foot figure derived from?

John Gurdon

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

Confucius

The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes

Steve Helton

Rebecca finds a way to score. She has always been known as a shooter, but she's improved so much, and now she finds ways to score.

Shawn Amos

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

James Klein

Survey after survey finds people are underestimating what they need for a financially secure retirement.

Brian Donahue

James just finds a way to help us win. I didn't think we really went to him enough on offense, but he made big plays.

Sara Foster

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

Vernell Crittendon

He wanted to be remembered for the good times in the past, rather than the situation he now finds himself in.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Mike Hathaway

He is probably the grittiest quarterback I've seen. He finds a way to get it done.

J. C. Watts

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.