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  • Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." -- Benjamin Wittes
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  • No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended. -- Mark Chadbourn
  • My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop. -- Tim Gane
  • I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong. -- Karen McCarthy
  • The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. -- Voltaire
  • Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it. -- Cliff Richard
  • Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. -- Robert Hall
  • Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. -- David Kay
  • That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. -- Mary Astell
  • Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. -- John Ortberg
  • In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. -- Tim Holden
  • Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome. -- Dick Durbin
  • I always take an Alastair Sawday guide. I stayed in three or four places in India that they had recommended, and every one of them was wonderful. -- Diana Quick
  • Since the gluten-free diet is not for everyone, it's recommended that you stick with a gluten-free diet for at least 3 weeks first to see if it works for you. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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  • A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders. -- Ron Fournier
  • God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended. -- John Battelle
  • Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book. -- Louie Anderson
  • People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits. -- Andrew Weil
  • I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures. -- Drew Carey
  • Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. -- Derek Jacobi
  • I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. -- Jose Rizal
  • I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed. -- Jo Nesbo
  • During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did. -- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him. -- Al Jourgensen
  • I love that there are beaches you can walk your dog on in San Francisco. Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there. -- Jane Wiedlin
  • Honestlythese two were not on the recommended list. -- Park Shin-yang
  • Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended. -- Elie Wiesel
  • Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards. -- William Proxmire
  • Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. -- George Washington
  • If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended! -- Guy Kawasaki
  • Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. -- Allen W. Wood
  • For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended. -- Peter Burke
  • The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters. -- Groucho Marx
  • We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses. -- Sarah Hanson-Young
  • If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. -- Jonathan Maberry
  • After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended. -- Dana Milbank
  • Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress. -- Rachel Caine
  • I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game. -- Rebecca West
  • TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended! -- Keith Barry
  • The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. -- Virginia Satir
  • I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life! -- Tim McCarthy
  • The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up? -- Richard Russo
  • I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ..."It's so surprising to me. -- Winona Ryder
  • There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors. -- Laurence Sterne
  • Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses... -- Charles Moertel
  • The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences. -- Ronald Kessler
  • Since a fully mature, rigorous vine will fully use 60 square feet or more spacings closer than 6x10 for wine grapes aren't usually recommended in America." -- Jeff Cox
  • Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. -- Edmund Burke
  • The angels can sometimes come as wordless words, as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again. -- Doreen Virtue
  • The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will -- Ludwig von Mises
  • the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world. -- Thornton Wilder
  • We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough. -- Donald Trump
  • I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended. -- David James Duncan
  • Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health. -- George Santayana
  • The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference. -- Jeff Atwood
  • I feel so much better having this book sitting on my cookbook shelf, just to help balance out the butter and cream being recommended by my array of french cookbooks! -- ChiWei Ranck
  • I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy. -- Dave Barry
  • She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head. -- Susan Donovan
  • She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head. -- Susan Donovan
  • A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny. -- Katherine Helmond
  • I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11. -- Colin Powell
  • In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it. -- James Madison
  • We will also require that follow-up reviews take place on a regular basis determined by the sensitive nature of the security involved. The review will be very much exact and recommended by experts. -- Donald Trump
  • In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.' -- Claude Simon
  • Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true. -- Mike Birbiglia
  • Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended! -- Deborah Raney
  • If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. -- Alfonso X of Castile
  • The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue. -- Elizabeth Fry
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