“People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMatterHardFactsRunningThreeCan DoCasesEconomyPlansOfficeOilMisleadGlobal EconomyGasolineBumperStickerBumper StickerRunning For OfficeGasoline Prices Author:Ken Salazar
“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.” IfsGivingWellsLittlesFactsHelpingSchoolUniverseProcessKnownCreativeToo MuchPlansTeachingIgnoranceOughtOffersDiscoveryConceptionOriginalityEducation SystemYoungstersRigidityCreative ThoughtLittle Help Author:William Lipscomb
“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.” ThinkingWantMindPersonsFactsMovingGoalCan DoStepsPlansPossibilityObstaclesAccomplishWhat You WantRealizationOur FutureBe YouUnlimitedYour FutureFuture PossibilitiesSmall Goals Author:Brian Tracy
“The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.” SaidFactsHouseWhitePlansOughtCostTaxesBillionsCleverWhite HouseBobClevernessSloppyVery Clever Author:Bob Dole
“If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.” IfsFactsSpeakTermPleasurePlansObjectsCallingStandardsGoldInstitutionsBritishDeterminedOrthodoxApplicationCurrencyDogmaticRelicsSpeak EnglishSubstitutionDanishGold StandardBritonsEsperanto Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.” FactsJesusChristTeachPlansJesus ChristFoundationSalvationDoctrineChiefsCrucialAtonementPlan Of Salvation Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.” MindDoeFactsClassPlansDegreesDetailsStrangerBetrayBritish HistoryDetails Of LifeEnglish Society Book:History in Our Time Source: History in Our Time
“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.” DoneFactsResultsDestinyDoubtPlansFailurePoliticianProjectsIntellectualEuropeFinalsScalesPlanningVanityInevitableClassicDamageMonumentUtopiaProgrammesUtopianUnified Author:Margaret Thatcher
“...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.” WayFirstsHumansMadeFactsMovingInterestingViewsNicePlansModernDyingOfficeWindowSkinsBillionsTinyCellsCorporationsAggressiveUnitsVeteranPensionMoving UpPension Plans Author:Dave Barry
“The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.” RealFactsWinningGoalLevelsCitiesPlansEmotionalConvincedTitlesIdolsEnglishmenManchesterBarcelonaMadridReal MadridManchester City Author:Sergio Aguero