Quotes About Statement

#1. Sure. Happy to do it,' I say. In terms of level of truthfulness, that statement would rank with something like, 'Damn, I'm going to be traveling to Saturn that day to go giraffe hunting.

David Rosenfelt

#2. Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

James Alexander Thom

#3. Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

Phil McGraw

#4. Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

Eli Broad

#6. Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity?

George Orwell

#7. I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

Barry Long

#9. Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

Bob Gill

#10. Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Barbara Olson

#11. If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

John Lancaster Spalding

#12. Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Dean Cavanagh

#13. To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Lionel Suggs

#14. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.

Boy George

#15. If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ronald Reagan

#16. Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.

Bubba Watson

#17. Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.

Jeanne Shaheen

#18. all the statements made about God that imply body have some hidden meaning and teach us what is above us by means of something familiar to ourselves, with the exception of any statement concerning the bodily sojourn of the God-Word.

John Damascene

#19. There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#20. This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

Daniel Klein

#22. God, you tick me off."
"Well, at least I got you - "
"Don't even finish that statement!" I snatched up my socks and tights. Rolling them on, I hobbled on one foot. "Ugh, I hate you sometimes."
He sat up in one fluid motion. "Not too long ago, you were really, really loving me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.

Ford Madox Ford

#24. I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

Annie Lennox

#25. The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

Stephen Covey

#26. A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.

William Bailey

#27. Sometimes when things happen, it's best to run. Solve the problem later, don't think about it then, just run.

Statement from my character, Brian Cain, in the upcoming book, The Final Inning, Dark Days Ahead.

Ernest Grant

#28. The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

John Allen Paulos

#29. You're my habit, Olivia Taylor." His statement is delivered with no emotion. "You belong to me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#30. Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them. Denise instinctively knew the truth of her mother's statement, yet it was hard to reconcile her words with the love she felt for Taylor McAden.

Nicholas Sparks

#31. I'm certain Blackmoor will protect you from anything over unusual, my dear." Alex looked at her companion and tilted her head, pretending to consider the statement before turning back to the countess. "I suppose he'll have to do.

Sarah MacLean

#32. I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

John Howard

#33. Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

Neale Donald Walsch

#34. If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

Slash

#35. Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover's hand in public

Josh Lanyon

#36. For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

Melanie Lynskey

#37. To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

Galileo Galilei

#38. ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

Karen Karbo

#39. I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#40. Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Flann O'Brien

#41. The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.

John Silber

#42. India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.

Sarah Macdonald

#43. When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Barry McGuire

#44. The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be: "All things are made of atoms.

Bill Bryson

#45. So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

John Sexton

#46. I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

Martin Fry

#47. In the, Dei Verbum, there is a great statement of Vatican II: The bible is the word of god but in the words of men.

Robert E. Barron

#48. Tradition is the prison where change is detained ... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!

Israelmore Ayivor

#49. Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Milton Friedman

#50. Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#51. When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.

Catie Curtis

#52. That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone De Beauvoir

#53. I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Stella Young

#54. A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Roy H. Williams

#55. It's easy to hide in a statement. It's hard to hide between statements," Cook said.

Atul Gawande

#56. What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

Eva Hesse

#57. If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting.

Dexter Palmer

#58. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Stanislav Grof

#59. Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn't know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song. This

Ben Aaronovitch

#60. called to testify in a court case. Asked to identify himself, he announced that he was the world's greatest architect. When asked how he could make such a statement, he replied, with visible enjoyment and a gleam in his eye, that he had no choice, he was under oath.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#61. I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

Johnny Weir

#62. I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

Ansel Adams

#63. 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

Jon Voight

#64. I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

Katharine Hayhoe

#65. What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Robert Nozick

#66. The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.

Gregory David Roberts

#67. I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

James Gosling

#68. Happiness simply starts with a statement: "I WANT TO BE HAPPY".

Rossana Condoleo

#69. P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

Joyce Carol Oates

#70. What form of speech is better than a question? A statement is certain. A question is fluid. To make progress, isn't it better to flow than to sit?

Edward W. Robertson

#71. Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

Michael Langford

#72. I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

Kirsten Vangsness

#73. Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time and perspective to produce books as well-written as those by anyone who ever lived.
-David Whyte

David Whyte

#74. It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

Alice Cooper

#75. The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

Gloria Steinem

#76. I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#77. People often ask for my advice and counseling, but overall, the best advice I can give to anyone at any time is: never complete a negative statement.

Bear Heart

#78. A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution

Claude C. Hopkins

#79. One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty.

Paul Outerbridge

#80. The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.

Steven M. Bragg

#81. The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

Rich Cohen

#82. To do this you need 1 tablespoon of aims, a mission statement, 1 cup of objectives and goals, bake for 45 minutes, and allow to cool. The result: a strategic plan.

Anonymous

#83. There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably

Peter Barry

#84. Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

Michael Moore

#85. I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

Candida Hofer

#86. Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

Henri De Mondeville

#87. If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

Gary L. Francione

#88. College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike every day. Free to define ourselves with statement attire. Good thing.

Parul Wadhwa

#89. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock

#90. There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

Robert Creeley

#91. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

#92. If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

C. K. Prahalad

#93. The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity.

Warren Ellis

#94. But I wish to be enlightened.'
'Let me caution you against it.'
'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?'
'Yes, indeed.'
She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

Thomas Hardy

#95. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.

Oswald Chambers

#96. Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement

Drake

#97. Fear is excitement without the breath. Here's what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.

Gay Hendricks

#98. The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

Tullian Tchividjian

#99. In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

Gerald Brommer

#100. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard