Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Edward Norton

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Ken Hayes

This probably couldn't have happened back then. The bent back then was historicism.

Timothy Noah

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Eduardo Saverin

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

Jim Johnson

We bent a little, but we didn't break. That was a big thing that we talked about all week, being good in the red zone.

Lee Smith

Buck and I are somewhat alike. We don't get worked up or bent out of shape. Things are going to happen and you can't control it.

Rudyard Kipling

But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).

Joss Whedon

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Toshihiko Fukui

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

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?

Sathya Baba

To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Such peace only comes from God.

Debbie Ford

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Barry Schwartz

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

John C. Calhoun

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.

David Grinspoon

We're ignorant of life in the universe. We only have one planet that serves as an example and in science it's not good to derive information from a sample size of one.

Adnan Pachachi

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Brene Brown

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Steve Osburn

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Scott Howell

Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.

Charles M. Schulz

You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.

Mark Steyn

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

Chuck Schumer

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'

Donald Trump

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Kathleen Sebelius

I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

Stephen Kinzer

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

Jim Talent

Governor Romney is a good debater.