Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Reston

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Kevin Costner

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Mark Kimmitt

The casualty figures that we have received from the enemy are somewhere about 10 times that amount, ... About civilian casualties, there is no authoritative figure out there.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is the truth.

Frank Hsieh

The damage and casualty situation right now looks as if we have had some good fortune in the midst of this misfortune,

Phil Rosenthal

It's over the top, it's a thrill a minute. ... The casualty list is horrendous. But it's exciting. And it keeps you going.

Jan Egeland

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.

Michael Ward

It's ironic that of all the shows in the West End, this should be the first casualty of the bombings on July 7 and 21.

Rob Haines

It was a mildly disappointing quarter. Operating earnings missed the analysts' target and the property and casualty side was worse than I thought.

Bill Giles

Jordan probably hasn't scored 19 points in all his games combined this season. He did a good job tonight.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan's confidence in the predictive value of gold (as an inflation indicator) might be high enough that, when combined with other critical predictors . . . could push Greenspan to either hawkish words or action,

Gina Nolan

I thought our defense was the key for us tonight. We talked about that before the game. We knew that was going to be the key for us. The last time we played them, (Kate) Norton and (Melissa) Olsen combined for 25 points.

Trilby Lundberg

I think it's over. The slightly higher crude oil prices combined with a recovery in gasoline demand is ending the retail gasoline price crash.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Paula Radcliffe

I am excited about the announcement. It is a big step forward for the sport, the events and the athletes, that there has been this united stand from some of the major marathons. The results can be only positive and having experience of three of the events involved, I am convinced that their combined expertise will help the sport immensely.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT. Instead of requiring clinicians to navigate in and out of applications to find relevant patient data, our combined platform enables clinicians to sign in once, select a patient once and have the patient's aggregated data presented to them automatically.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT.

Matt Blamey

His leadership, combined with our all-senior defense, will make it much tougher to score on South Lakes this season.

Jeremy Harris

I didn't much like school. I've been on motorcycles, but nothing compares to the feeling of being on a bull.

Lindsey Vonn

Nothing really compares to the original 'Law & Order.'

Jeff Hodson

I told them this is the worst part about the job. Cuts are tough, but nothing compares to the last game for the seniors and we have nine of them. It is really tough.

Andre Agassi

Pretty amazing. I don't know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it's right up there, because this is what you work so hard for.

Nick Haan

This crisis easily compares with any other humanitarian crisis going on around the world today.

Shane Doan

You never want to say, 'This one's for him,' because nothing compares to that, but it's a good way to go home. We're finding ways to win games again.

Elaine MacDonald

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

Jay McKee

Obviously, there's nothing that compares to the '99 Cup run. Nothing will ever compare to that unless you win it all.

Paul Curlander

For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compares to Dell revenue of $570 million in 2004, which was about 11 percent of our total revenue.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Rick Carlisle

He (Redd) was phenomenal with his shot making, especially in the third and the fourth (quarters). Then all of them were hitting threes after a while. The third quarter did us in.

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

Alan Graf

We're proud of our fourth quarter, and we're back.

Robert Toomey

We're only in the third or fourth inning, there's still a long way to go.

Sidney Crosby

In the third, it wasn't even close. Once they got that fourth one, it was pretty much over.

Mike Doherty

If there were a fourth time we could play them, we'd take the opportunity. It's nothing psychological. We just tip our hats to Don Bosco. They are the better team this season.

Layne Higgs

Calkins was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in the fourth quarter.

Richard Maloney

If the union wanted to go on strike, they could have gone on strike on the Fourth of July. But they know, by scheduling for this time of year, that it's going to hurt the people most.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Steve Tanner

They have trouble (offensively), too. Their losses have been similar to ours.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Arlen Specter

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Dan Moser

You know what, if I saw a team with six losses I'd probably think we should go in and spank them.

Kyle Wilson

We've had losses this year where we've had to bounced back from, and we've done it each time.

Levance Fields

We've just had some mental breakdowns. We have wins with this young team and we have losses with this young team. It is what it is now. We have to get better.

Sam Powell

We had some unfortunate situations. We had some eventful losses that we probably shouldn't have had, a suspension, and on top of that, we had a young team.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Richelle Mead

Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Joshua Cohen

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

Tom Stoppard

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Ahmet Gueye

He's very strong in the post and very talented.

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Cristy McKinney

I'm starting a senior in the post and they just whipped her.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Publilius Syrus

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Suzanne Kuehn

It would be a property tax rebate program.

Bill Giles

The township doesn't want to give up any more property or there won't be much township left.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

LenDale White

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends,

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

David Wyss

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

Jacob Tamme

The second quarter has really killed us in a lot of games.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Chris Long

We talked about a plus-three ratio in turnovers this week.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Dave Stidham

We have more staff than we need. Our administration has said that. Our teacher-to-student ratio is down to about 13½ to 1.