All Quotes

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.
‐‐ Jennifer Beals

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
‐‐ Claude Adrien Helvetius

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
‐‐ Kai Bird

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.
‐‐ John Delaney

By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
‐‐ Rogier van der Heide

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
‐‐ Voltaire

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
‐‐ Luke Harding

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'
‐‐ John Krasinski

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
‐‐ Barry Schuler

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.
‐‐ Terence Lewis

By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.
‐‐ Laila Ali

By being friends with all, we are not alone.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
‐‐ Ann Kirkpatrick

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
‐‐ Richard Louv

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
‐‐ Julian Assange

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
‐‐ Susan Lieberman

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
‐‐ Paris Hilton

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.
‐‐ Michael N. Castle

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.
‐‐ Keith Barry

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
‐‐ George Bancroft

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
‐‐ Simon Greenleaf

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
‐‐ Bruno Walter

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.
‐‐ David Blunkett

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
‐‐ Grenville Kleiser

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.
‐‐ John McLaughlin

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.
‐‐ Roy Barnes

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

By creating fantastic content and spending zero time on audience development, you are certain that you will not succeed on YouTube. You have to focus on audience development as much as you focus on creating content.
‐‐ Robert Kyncl

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
‐‐ Adora Svitak