All Quotes

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.
‐‐ Edward Rutherfurd

For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
‐‐ Albert Camus

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
‐‐ Jerry Speyer

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
‐‐ Annie Besant

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
‐‐ Allison Pearson

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
‐‐ Nursultan Nazarbayev

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
‐‐ Mary Astell

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
‐‐ Eduardo Saverin

For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
‐‐ John Ridley

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
‐‐ Aeschylus

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
‐‐ Martin Chemnitz

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.
‐‐ Miroslav Volf

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.
‐‐ Miroslav Volf

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
‐‐ Patti Smith

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.
‐‐ Retta

For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.
‐‐ Richard Madden

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
‐‐ Jake Paltrow

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
‐‐ Anna Friel

For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
‐‐ Fei Fei Sun

For clothes, I like Anna on Regent's Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes. I also love Arrogant Cat on Kensington Church Street. Space NK on Duke of York Square for exciting potions. I think I stretch the term 'tester' way beyond its boundaries.
‐‐ Sophie Winkleman

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
‐‐ Matt Smith

For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'
‐‐ Alex Pareene

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

For comedy, timing is key.
‐‐ Benjamin Stockham

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
‐‐ Nancy Kress

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
‐‐ Bob Brown

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
‐‐ Bob Kahn

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
‐‐ Philip Sidney

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.
‐‐ Hector Ruiz

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.
‐‐ Rony Abovitz