Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating...
TIMOTHY FERRISS
The truth does not need to be defended.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We would not have been put in this position if it had not been for the actions of Charles Sawyer.
BOB MARSHALL If J&J is not willing to up their bid, I think Guidant will be going to Boston Scientific.
DEBBIE WANG We have had meetings with Robert Smith and he does have reservations.
BOARD PRESIDENT RICHARD REILLY Anything less than $71 per share from J&J should not be accepted, in our view.
IVAN KRSTICEVIC Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions s...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
THOMAS MORIARTY All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON
I'm sick of most of what Robert does,
VAL KILMER We will likely see many state politicians giving speeches in honor of Dr. King, but many refuse to s...
BRANDON DORSEY If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.
MEGYN KELLY You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox.
DAVE ANNABLE I would not be surprised to see J&J come back. They've got $16 billion in cash at the end of 2005. T...
BRUCE NUDELL J&J is flexing its muscles. That's why J&J has come back so aggressively.
BRUCE NUDELL
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
HENRI NOUWEN
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
VINOBA BHAVE I think J&J has a claim. I don't think they are going to have to pay Guidant.
JOANNE WUENSCH
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but...
EDWARD DE BONO
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It wasn't a great quarter, but the expectations have gotten so low on J&J that a real ho-hum quarter...
BRUCE CRANNA We respect and honor the decision. But it does not mean we approve of it.
FRANCIS ESCUDERO
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I would expect the next chapter in this story to be the abandonment of the deal by J&J. For J&J I th...
ELI KAMMERMAN
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq...
SOLOMON ORTIZ The irony is, J&J could have had this company for $76 a share.
THOMAS GUNDERSON Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .
GRACE METALIOUS The irony is, J&J could have had this company for $76 a share.
THOMAS GUNDERSON
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage ...
STOCKWELL DAY
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
ANNETTE FUNICELLO “What one experiences at the youthful days (now), does not mean he is being drawn to his failure...
THE PIONEER WRITERS' SOCIETY DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
DAVID MUIR Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE
And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomeve...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Ca...
EDDIE MURPHY My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the p...
PATRICK KASER My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the p...
PATRICK KASER Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey...
EDDIE MURPHY Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
ROBERT J. SAWYER If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the W...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON At the end of the day, Boston is going to run out of cash ahead of J&J. Boston's really going to hav...
BRUCE NUDELL
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly...
FREDERIC BASTIAT The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that...
ROBERT J. SAWYER General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
ROBERT J. SAWYER There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote th...
ROBERT J. SAWYER That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century However the gospel may be defended, it can...
FREDERICK F. BRUCE That is always the elephant in the room with J&J. Everyone wants to know what is going on in M&A, an...
BRUCE CRANNA Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligibl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
The future historian will rank ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made...
ROBERT J. SAWYER By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
ROBERT J. SAWYER One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
ROBERT J. SAWYER You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
ROBERT J. SAWYER