All Quotes

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
‐‐ F. H. Bradley

We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
‐‐ Fatou Bensouda

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
‐‐ James Gleick

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
‐‐ Scott Ritter

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
‐‐ Robert Harris

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
‐‐ Melina Mercouri

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.
‐‐ Herman Daly

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
‐‐ John Fusco

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
‐‐ Thucydides

We see a lot of gory deaths on 'Game of Thrones.'
‐‐ Esme Bianco

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.
‐‐ Iyad Allawi

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
‐‐ Samantha Harvey

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.
‐‐ Martin Naughton

We see death constantly on film.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
‐‐ Karen Mills

We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
‐‐ Johan Rockstrom

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
‐‐ Brad Stone

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
‐‐ Mike Duke

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.
‐‐ John Sculley

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
‐‐ Hans Berger

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.
‐‐ Bruce McCulloch

We see Lyft as not just an app, but a movement of people coming together in cities and having conversations about things that matter. You're around some of the most interesting people in the world, and you don't talk to them. More and more people are craving in-person interactions.
‐‐ John Zimmer

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
‐‐ Tacitus