System Quotes

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.