Quotes About Statements

All around me, candidates were making wild promises and outlandish statements, while I was out there trying to offer up sound strategies and proven approaches—in other words, trying to be responsible. But you know what? That was seen as boring. Nobody seemed to care—at least, not in any kind of measurable way in this early going.

The denial that there are objective values does not commit one to any particular view about what moral statements mean, and certainly not to the view that they are equivalent to subjective reports.

we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.

I never said I wanted to move to Real Madrid. If I did, I would have said so publicly.

We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

You have all this education theory, and people try to make larger statements than maybe what their data would back up, because they've done these small experiments that are tied to a very particular case with a very particular implementation... theory definitely matters, but I think dogma matters less.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements

Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history; poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements.

what Russell called a 'logical construction out of aggregates of facts. (This does not mean that all statements about the average are sensible or useful: as has been said, the average person has one testicle and one breast.)

The Bible is filled with powerful statements about who we are in Christ and what belongs to us as believers.

I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true. I'm not going to take her on her word.

The traveler must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalization. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way and play to the strength of theatre. But the high end of directing is working with actors and making the acting the best it can be.

To be honest, I deliberately tend not to post things like 'I'm having a relationship' or where I live. I'm a bit reluctant to keep this kind of information up to date because people are inclined to see things like that as statements, and I rather keep a little bit of privacy, if possible at all.

Emotivism maintains that the only statements capable of having meaning are those that are empirically verifiable, but this underlying principle is itself not empirically verifiable.

It's a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn't a truism because most policemen think the word 'empirical' is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.

Hank's statements were to some extent beside the point,

The media and politicians rarely pay attention to statements by economists, but unfortunately they do if the statements are sufficiently controversial (in the case of the media) or support preconceived views (in the case of politicians).

Marjorie Taylor Greene

As very often in our discipline, old and seemingly certain statements rest forever without further verification

But Dr. Stadler, this book was not intended to be read by scientists. It was written for that drunken lout. What do you mean? For the general public. But, good God! The feeblest imbecile should be able to see the glaring contradictions in every one of your statements. Let us put it this way, Dr. Stadler. The man who doesn't see that, deserves to believe all my statements.