Quotes About Statement

You want a burrito? I asked. Is that a question or a statement of the obvious? Neither. It's an order.

if you want to make a vivid statement about yourself, say you are kiya—arising only!

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.

accountant was not engaged to prepare the financial statements, there is no requirement to include a statement on each page of the financial statements indicating that no assurance is provided on the financial statements.

Write a mission statement, but keep it private.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

I have always found that the only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries further.

What up Brit-Boy?" "I was just wondering," he said,"about the significance of your canine collar." Why was the collar such a big deal? Back home, half the girls wore them. "It was a gift from someone with twice the cojones you have." He raised his eyebrows. "You only have the data to validate half of that statement," he said, letting his legs fall apart and glancing downward. "But that could be corrected.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.

We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

I try to make the things that I say be based in reality, based in facts, and truthful. And if that's the case, and you want to be upset at me for stating the truth, that's your choice.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

I'll wear a graphic tee that says: 'AIDS Walk,' when I'm on the AIDS Walk. But generally graphic tees are for the young – and I'm not talking about the young at heart.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

She seemed glad to see me. In fact, she actually said she was glad to see me – a statement no other aunt on the list would have committed herself to, the customary reaction of these near and dear ones to the spectacle of Bertram arriving for a visit being a sort of sick horror

We talk about certain statements as having a "ring of truth" to them, as if a sentence is a tuning fork, something that we can tap and listen to for its tone. And I think that's right. Truth has a hum to it. You can tell.

But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief--I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination.

Works" are simply a natural part of faith. James's statement is about the inherent nature of faith, about what makes it up. It concerns what believing something really amounts to. It is not an exhortation to prove that one has faith or to work to keep one's faith alive.

The revolt hadn't been put down, it had just dwindled away into a fashion statement.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.