As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.
~By Jo Brand ~
The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~By Tommy Armour ~
And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
~By Alex Cox ~
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
~By Jean Paul ~
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.
~By Ann Robinson ~
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.
~By Johannes Stark ~
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~By Sai Baba ~
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
~By Adam Clarke ~
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
~By John W. Snow ~
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
~By John George Nicolay ~
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
~By Phil Collins ~
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.
~By Renny Harlin ~
But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
~By Ziyi Zhang ~
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
~By Colin Powell ~
It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.
~By Graham Taylor ~
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
~By Edwin Percy Whipple ~
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
I am much more interested in the process than results.
~By Ted Allen ~
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
~By Larry Norman ~
When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.
~By Juan Williams ~
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
~By John Barton ~
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
~By Oliver Stone ~
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
~By Denis Waitley ~
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
~By Carl Levin ~
I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?
~By Michael C. Hall ~
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
~By Pierre Laval ~
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
~By David Horowitz ~
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
~By Warren Buffett ~
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
~By Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
~By George W. Bush ~
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
~By James Dean ~
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
~By Martha Beck ~
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
~By John Bates Clark ~
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
~By Stella Blum ~
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
~By Nick Rahall ~
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
~By Anita Roddick ~
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
~By Daniel J. Evans ~
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
~By Adam Ant ~
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
~By Norman Lamm ~
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
~By John Wooden ~
The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
~By Gene Siskel ~
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
~By Ben Sweetland ~
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
~By Tom Robbins ~
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
~By William James ~
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
~By James Dickey ~
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
~By Amy Klobuchar ~
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
~By Claude Bernard ~
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
~By Franklin Raines ~
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
~By William James ~
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
~By Iris DeMent ~
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
~By Bobby Darin ~
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
~By William Whewell ~
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
~By George S. Patton ~
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
~By Johann Most ~
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
~By Susan Powter ~
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.
~By Lee Haney ~
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
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