All Quotes

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
‐‐ Jo Brand

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
‐‐ Jason Silva

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
‐‐ Martin Parr

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
‐‐ Albert Camus

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
‐‐ Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
‐‐ Elizabeth McGovern

By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.
‐‐ John Fleming

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
‐‐ George Tenet

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
‐‐ David Whyte

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.
‐‐ Kevin Harrington

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

By delivering a wide array of programming to YouTube, the NBA will be able to connect with its existing worldwide fan base and reach a vast new audience that is passionate about basketball.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
‐‐ Saskya Pandita

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
‐‐ Democritus

By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.
‐‐ Brian Greene

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
‐‐ Robert Winston

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
‐‐ Manning Marable

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
‐‐ Rick Danko

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
‐‐ Peter Abelard

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
‐‐ Norman McLaren

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.
‐‐ David H. Murdock

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
‐‐ John Dryden

By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to the world that what goes on in this genre is at best utilitarian and at worst an utter mystery. We have segregated the genre from art.
‐‐ John D'Agata

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.
‐‐ Ron Lewis

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
‐‐ Spencer Bachus

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
‐‐ Tim Johnson