All Quotes

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
‐‐ George Stigler

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I've ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
‐‐ Billy Bragg

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.
‐‐ Mike Bouchard

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
‐‐ Henry Knox

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
‐‐ Jordin Sparks

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
‐‐ Charles Tupper

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
‐‐ Gro Harlem Brundtland

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts.
‐‐ John Fund

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.
‐‐ Robert Shea

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
‐‐ Daniel Okrent

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
‐‐ Michael Harrington

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.
‐‐ James Collins

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
‐‐ Nassau William Senior

That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
‐‐ Edward Lawrie Tatum

That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.
‐‐ John Tyler Bonner

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
‐‐ John Joly

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
‐‐ David Hume

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
‐‐ Richard Owen

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
‐‐ Charles E. Wilson

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.
‐‐ George Best

That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
‐‐ George Berkeley

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
‐‐ Josiah Royce

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
‐‐ Thomas Shepard

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
‐‐ Joseph Glanvill

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
‐‐ Joe Henderson

That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.
‐‐ Randy Houser

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
‐‐ Bruce Oldfield

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.
‐‐ Jackie Earle Haley

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
‐‐ Clint Walker

That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.
‐‐ Evan Daugherty