Clear Quotes - page 24

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it. (Sean Young)
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. View quote
Taiye Selasi
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. View quote
Tiki Barber
We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated. View quote
Tim Bishop
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. View quote
Todd Solondz
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. View quote
Tracy Kidder
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why. View quote
Tracy Kidder
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. View quote
Taryn Simon
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. View quote
Tycho Brahe
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. View quote
Tycho Brahe
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. (Theodore C. Sorensen)
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it? View quote
Ulrich Walter
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me. View quote
Vijay Mallya
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. View quote
William Merritt Chase
But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them. View quote
William Odom
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. View quote
William Scranton
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word. View quote
Walter Lang
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. View quote
Walter Lang
We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. View quote
Warren Christopher
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I have given detailed instructions for the establishment of silk industry in Mysore. Silk worms and men well versed in the art of rearing them have already arrived from foreign lands to train our people. Eighteen centres have been set up for development of the industry. Many more are needed. Every encouragement is being given to plantation of mulberry trees. I would like you to take direct interest in this developmental activity. My goal is clear: I want Mysore to be the foremost amongst silk producing nations. View quote
Tipu Sultan
Fishes and plankton, whales and squids, birds and sea turtles, all are linked by unbreakable ties to certain kinds of water-to warm water or cold water, to clear or turbid water, to water rich in phosphates or in silicates. View quote
Rachel Carson
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. View quote
Thabo Mbeki
In the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and the answers will probably appear as unequivocal as the axioms on which reasoning is built; though, when entangled with various motives of action, they are formally contradicted either by the words or conduct of men. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft