All Quotes

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
‐‐ Robert Trout

Many Christians are raised believing that to be true to God's Word means to accept that the universe, Earth, and life were created in six 24-hour days, only a few thousand years ago. Most people lack the theological and scientific tools to think through the implications of this teaching.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
‐‐ Adam Hamilton

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
‐‐ Dallas Willard

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
‐‐ Robert Teeter

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
‐‐ Luka Sulic

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.
‐‐ Paul Tonko

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.
‐‐ Gerald Edelman

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch

Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.
‐‐ Shawn Levy

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.
‐‐ Judy Gold

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.
‐‐ John Morgridge

Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
‐‐ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
‐‐ Bill Gurley

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
‐‐ Maxim Gorky

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
‐‐ George Mikes

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.
‐‐ Andrew P. Harris

Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.
‐‐ Masiela Lusha

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.
‐‐ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
‐‐ Gary Krist

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.
‐‐ Ivan Lendl

Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.
‐‐ David Hallberg

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
‐‐ Larry Wall