Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Tom Ditt

They're taking a battering. We don't know what the damages are yet, but they're considerable.

David Foster

There will be no incentive for the second milestone, but failure to meet the deadline will result in a $50,000 per day liquidated damages assessment.

Joe Nathan

Every time IBM sells a product that uses our technology, it damages us. That will come out at the trial,

Peter Goodwin

We see another big flood coming, after having all this development on the flood plain. And the damages are just going to get greater and greater.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Richard Berthelsen

If the arbitrator rules our way, we're looking at damages that were occurred. Things we would be looking at is the final year of his contract.

Shaukat Sultan

Because the damages have been mostly in far-flung areas, it is difficult for the rescue teams to reach those areas,

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Becky Ault

We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.

Jay Punia

We are getting ready for a major flood fight.

George Radanovich

all of which would increase substantially flood protection for Sacramento.

Inez Fung

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

Scott Foster

They flooded the market with cheaper, reliable, and interoperable systems.

Maurice Brown

It's all gone - I saw on TV where my whole neighborhood is flooded out,

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Elton Kaahu

Really frustrating because nobody did nothing about it. So, we the homeowners, live over here, we no like get flood out so we do something about them.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Craig Stevens

We are looking forward to the discussion. We want to make sure that all parties are at the table as we move forward.

Scott Drew

We are looking forward to next year now that we have a full season. I?m just proud how our team stuck together and handled adversity. There was a lot of prayer time.

Matt Rodgers

We are looking forward to hosting our last home match Monday. We have several good teams coming. Our guys would really like to play well.

Christopher Hill

We are looking forward to getting things going as scheduled, ... What we really have to do is ... identify the way forward and see how the principles will actually work in practice.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Paul Campbell

And there are some of them that we don't have. We have made stride, but as I said, 'getting to the stage where we want to, we have to add', and we are adding.

Dan Stessel

No way. At this stage in the game, it's like asking, 'Why not a sky-tram?' It's not in a let's-dream-about-it phase. This is not a theoretical exercise. The Tunnel is actually going to happen.

Richie Furay

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Alan Greene

There is nothing at this stage to suggest there is anything within the premises.