Top 100 Informed Quotes
#1. Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
Geddy Lee
#3. When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.
James Berryman
#4. I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury
#5. I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
Joseph Jarman
#6. All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.
Sonia Sotomayor
#7. I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly.
"Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him.
"Really?"
"god no. That was terrible
Derek Landy
#8. Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.
John Kador
#10. A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#11. It is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.
Massimo Pigliucci
#12. We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein
#14. The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
Philip Pullman
#15. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan
#17. As you travel around Slovenia,
Think of the tales the hills could tell you.
Share the awe of natural wonder;
Tread the trails, but as you wander
Honor the age-old endeavors to be
Literate, informed, democratic and free.
Jacqueline Widmar Stewart
#18. The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.
Sheryl Crow
#19. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.
Mark Greene
#20. To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
Henry Rollins
#21. I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.
Morena Baccarin
#22. It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
Linda Hamilton
#23. looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and - above all - irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster - and much that was - deeply irritating. Here
A. L. Kennedy
#24. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
Brad Pitt
#25. We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.
Timothy Keller
#26. I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
Carl Sagan
#27. I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
Fritz Sauckel
#28. He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students.
Miriam Toews
#29. But I killed you," Alyss said. "Did you?" Red turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?
Frank Beddor
#30. Duke Leszek the White explained in a long letter to the Pope that neither he nor any self-respecting Polish knight could be induced to go to the Holy Land, where, they had been informed, there was no wine, mead, or even beer to be had.
Adam Zamoyski
#31. Alonso paid one of the guards to keep him informed on what goes on in the house when he's not around. Alonso was in the guest house entertaining a few young girls all under the age of seventeen. He had been drugging and fucking them all
Nako
#32. Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke
#33. Indeed, consumer choice informed by conscience is an unstoppable force for good.
Wayne Pacelle
#34. The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.
George Osborne
#35. DEBORAH DROVE US SOUTH ON DIXIE HIGHWAY. YES, I did say "us." To my surprise, I had become a valuable member of the Justice League and was informed that I was being honored with the opportunity to put my irreplaceable self in harm's way.
Jeff Lindsay
#36. I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.
Suzanne Finnamore
#37. The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.
Ron Paul
#38. My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.
Philip Kitcher
#39. Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.
Ketch Secor
#40. The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.
Andrew Breitbart
#41. For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#42. I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.
Roger Ebert
#43. I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
Al-Shafi'i
#44. What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few ... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.
Philip Jones Griffiths
#45. My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.
Stephen Colbert
#46. Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
Diana Gabaldon
#47. Evan's gaze fell on the massive form in the middle of the courtyard. He jabbered incoherently, pointing at the huge monster, sure it was another demon.
Arnvar hastily informed him to, "Sssh and stop pointing. He's just an orc."
Just an Orc!
Will Collins
#48. A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.
William Kamkwamba
#49. If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery," he informed, his tone steady and cold. "Is that explicit enough?"
"Oh, don't be so dramatic," I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass.
Laura Kreitzer
#51. We're so intelligent now that we're too smart to survive. We're so well informed that we lost all sense of meaning. We know the price of everything, but we've lost all sense of value. We have everyone under surveillance, but we've lost all sense of shame.
Bruce Sterling
#52. Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it
Martha Gellhorn
#53. Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.
Ted Agon
#54. I want people to see the truth ... regardless of who they are ...
because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
public.
Chelsea Manning
#55. The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#56. Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.
We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity.
Danail Hristov
#57. How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Rush Limbaugh
#59. Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes.
Pearl Zhu
#60. There are two ways of getting rid of sorrows: one by living them down, the other by drowning them. The coachman drowned his. He informed her that her luggage
Thomas Hardy
#61. In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull
#62. If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed,
Thomas Jefferson
#63. My mom beat me up, I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.
Richelle Mead
#64. A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#65. Today's China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the enlightenment philosophy espoused by the Founding Fathers.
Patrick Mendis
#66. History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.
James W. Loewen
#67. We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Helen Thomas
#68. Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education ... But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.
Jerome Bruner
#69. Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.
Seanan McGuire
#70. We're not messing around tonight, I informed him as we reached the main road.
I never mess around. I'm all business in the sack.
Cara McKenna
#71. Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Paul Harris
#72. I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
Lindsay Duncan
#73. Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.
Richard Brown
#74. As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
Richard H. Davis
#75. To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Caroline Kennedy
#76. been informed by Putin's secretary that the
Ted Bell
#77. Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
Miep Gies
#78. No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.
Bruno Bettelheim
#79. I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.
Julie Mehretu
#81. If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation
Norman Cousins
#82. I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were a part of my life as well, and that I have the right to write about my life.
Marie Calloway
#83. It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.
Max Weber
#84. When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.
Anne Bronte
#85. Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
Scott Turow
#86. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
Al Gore
#87. Just because you have information, doesn't mean you're informed.
Stephen Smoke
#88. Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
#89. You're being domineering again," I informed him.
I felt his mouth grin under mine and watched his eyes do it.
"Yeah, baby, fair warnin', when we're naked, you better get used to that."
I gasped at his words then he kissed me.
Kristen Ashley
#90. Mac, are you even listening?" Nick's voice sounded annoyed. "You used to be a lot more attentive."
"I used to be banging you too," I informed him absently. "I found your opinions about my love life a lot more interesting then.
S.E. Harmon
#91. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.
Laura Poitras
#92. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not
Richard Dawkins
#93. The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other ...
Dave Barry
#94. (Hunter) "conner was at his desk, tapping away at another computer. It was amazing how much he and Quinn looked alike. Quinn nudged me as if he knew what I was thinking.
"I'm cuter,"he informed me loftily.
Alyxandra Harvey
#95. Perhaps we'll have some answers, at least, before the end. I always dreamed of dying well-informed.
Joe Abercrombie
#96. Travel to other towns, states, and countries. Realize that your way is not the only way. Different doesn't equal bad or wrong. Be open minded and informed before making a decision.
Alison G. Bailey
#97. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
Henry Rollins
#99. In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove."
"So I have been informed, sir."
"Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do pastoral dances.
P.G. Wodehouse
#100. A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
Martha Beck
