All Quotes

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
‐‐ Hjalmar Branting

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
‐‐ Joe Slovo

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
‐‐ Trip Hawkins

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
‐‐ Major Taylor

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
‐‐ Bono

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
‐‐ Craig Brown

As a rugby player, you strive to be an All Black, win a World Cup, and win a Super Rugby title.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
‐‐ Ernest Renan

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.
‐‐ Malaika Arora Khan

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
‐‐ James Payn

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
‐‐ Ranulph Fiennes

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.
‐‐ Louis Navellier

As a rule, governments monitor people.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.
‐‐ Arthur Phillips

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
‐‐ Lucy Maud Montgomery

As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.
‐‐ Emma McLaughlin

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
‐‐ Chris Cooper

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
‐‐ Bill Williams

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

As a rule, one should never place form over content.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
‐‐ Josiah Strong

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
‐‐ Dave Parnas

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
‐‐ Lew Wallace

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

As a rule, whenever I hear about a demographic threat, it comes first of all from a type of thinking that says the Arabs are a threat. And this leads to thinking of transfer or that they should be killed. I am appalled by this kind of talk.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.
‐‐ Eddie Redmayne

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.
‐‐ Marshawn Lynch

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
‐‐ Simon Schama

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
‐‐ Craig Venter

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
‐‐ Alan Lightman

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
‐‐ Steven Hatfill