All Quotes

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
‐‐ Max de Pree

The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
‐‐ Said Nursi

The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
‐‐ Al Gore

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
‐‐ James Woods

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
‐‐ Brian Moore

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
‐‐ Robert Reich

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.
‐‐ Rob Simmons

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
‐‐ Teller

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach... never mind. That's not the moral. Probably.
‐‐ MaryJanice Davidson

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
‐‐ Ice Cube

The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art's sake.
‐‐ Paul Harding

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
‐‐ Orlando Gibbons

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
‐‐ John Aubrey

The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
‐‐ Flea

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
‐‐ George Packer

The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
‐‐ Steven Zaillian

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
‐‐ Ned Beauman

The simple act of caring is heroic.
‐‐ Edward Albert

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
‐‐ Tom Peters

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
‐‐ Carol P. Christ

The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.
‐‐ Simon Pegg

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt

The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.
‐‐ Jay Carney

The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
‐‐ Masanobu Fukuoka

The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
‐‐ Harold Ramis

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.
‐‐ Alvin E. Roth

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
‐‐ Lucinda Franks

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks

The simple things in life make me very happy.
‐‐ Samantha Fox

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
‐‐ Dave Barry

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.
‐‐ George Clooney

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
‐‐ Larry Craig

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
‐‐ Nancy Lopez