8164 Quotes & Sayings

The internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment — Hubert L. Dreyfus

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. — Michael Thomas Ford

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age. — Muddy Waters

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others. — Denis Waitley

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow. — James Burnham

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world. — Charles Darwin

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. — George W. Bush

In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.) — David J. Agans

To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian. — Alexander Ovechkin

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. — Eleanor Roosevelt

(Rico) "What's it going to take to get you to dance with me?"
She crooked her index finger and motioned him to come close. "A million in your bank account and seven inches in your pants."
Without missing a beat he replied, "The million I have, but even for a woman as beautiful as you, I won't cut off three inches."
Olivia's eyes went wide and she burst out laughing. — Rita Henuber

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers. — Frederick Douglass

I'd just tromper you with everybody. — Ernest Hemingway,

TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web. — Mike McCue