Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Paul

There are still communities that haven't begun to remove all the debris because you can't get to all of it. There is no agency that can clean up everything from Alabama to Texas in a short amount of time it is a gradual progress.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

Jennifer Parker

Historically, the agency has not done much in the way of rule making.

Tom Glavine

I think you're going to see another winter where free agency is not as ... chaotic as it has been in years past, ... It'll be more like last winter.

Kevin Mawae

I think it's playing out exactly like we thought it would. We said as a union that in order for free agency to go off without a hitch, the owners would have to figure out how to divide up the revenue. It's not necessarily the percentage that we're asking but how they spread the wealth.

Colin Powell

Laurence Foley had devoted his own life to U.S. government service and to improving the lives of others through his work with the Agency for International Development, ... He will be deeply missed.

Peter Baga

I will always recommend an on-site meeting to see what a client's office and culture is like. Building a relationship with a temporary placement agency is important. Many of our clients are 10-plus years relationships. They say blue and we know what shade.

Ray McGovern

I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

Javier Solana

I am delighted in particular that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has now made a strategic choice to take the path of cooperation, and has reaffirmed the central importance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency in underpinning global security.

Yvonne Strahovski

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

Kurt Braunohler

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

Benjamin Watson

The goal is always to play the perfect game. I've just had bits and pieces so far.

John Battelle

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.

Cheryl Magnussen

It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to commit (to replace her), or it would take a lot of different people getting together who have little bits of time that could work together, because it was done so hugely. That made me think that it's important for people to step up and try to do what they can do for Variety to continue that, and to bring it into focus so the contributions continue to keep coming in.

Sam Kinison

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

Helen Petrauskas

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

Greg Austin

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Paul Johnson

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Rupert Lowe

I did not offer to stand down because of Clive Woodward's involvement and there is no suggestion of that happening despite this report. I don't know where this has come from.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

Richard Martin

In this regard, Japan stands out as the dominant threat to regional stability, despite its low share of exports as a percentage of GDP.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Rupert Adams

India have won three in a row and we are not entirely surprised that punters have piled on India despite the fact that they are odds-on.

Sean Penn

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

Christopher Hickey

And we want to solve this in a more precise way where we don't end up destroying the city.

Hanna Rosin

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Frederick Buechner

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Hideo Kojima

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Ville Valo

Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

John Nicks

I think it was obvious the standard of skating tonight was not particularly good.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Robert Plant

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

Pat Roberts

Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.

Jim Zorn

I'm totally numb. It really is a shock. I talked to him while he was on the recruiting trail with Texas Tech, and there were no obvious (physical) signs of anything going wrong.

Charles Pasqua

I never received anything, ... It is obvious to me that the Americans want to implicate France.