Due Quotes

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.