Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Nelson

He has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

W. S. Gilbert

People's appetites for big boats continue to grow. I don't think it's a conspicuous consumption phenomena. I think it reflects the fact that people want to go further and further on their boats; they want to be independent from land.

George Bernard Shaw

The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit

Tim O'Reilly

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

James Sutherland

No doubt the Australian public is talking about the tight Ashes battle that we're currently in, and hopefully, that can whet people's appetites for even more great cricket in October.

Max Stirner

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.

William Daley

He didn't want to be governor, senator, president, vice president, cabinet member, none of that. His focus is totally on one thing - it's always been the city.

Fred Barnes

... He can start the equivalent of his third term now , by filling his presidential staff and cabinet with new faces -- or old faces in new positions -- and by concentrating on new or forgotten initiatives.

Ariel Sharon

have to convene a Cabinet meeting and have to decide what to do.

Ariel Sharon

It is a difficult, complex but very important process for Israel, but will be implemented as the Cabinet and the Knesset decided,

Mahmud Zahar

I think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

Ahmed Qorei

The Palestinian Cabinet welcomes a meeting with Sharon but insists that such a meeting will not take place without the necessary preparation,

Andy Card

He came out of the Cabinet room. The helicopter had landed. People were getting on their coats to run off to the helicopter.

Pete Domenici

We can have all the hearings we want but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon and so are all the Cabinet members,

Walter Bagehot

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Rodger Baker

Kim . . . doesn't want foreign interference in succession, or for foreigners to try to cut deals with his chosen successor instead of himself.

Darlene Rose

I think it's a fine uniform, but we have chosen not to use that style.

Mark Moller

Here's what we do know: Polls are driving President Bush's court picks. At a low ebb in his presidency, the president has passed over well-known, if controversial, constitutionalists and chosen a sphinx-like presidential pal,

Bob Rosner

He's a very effective worker, ... but he's chosen to stay out of management because he just doesn't have the temperament.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Tom McCabe

The people who are chosen have a great opportunity. Right now, it doesn't look too special - a lot of dirt and snow in piles - but it's going to be incredible.

John Banks

We're pleased the US Marine Corps has chosen our product for use world wide. This demonstrates that Flushaways can perform under the toughest conditions, providing real convenience and ecological benefits. We look forward to growing sales with the Marines and other US Government agencies,

Carolyn Valacich

We submitted an application, and we were one of two orchestras (to be chosen for 2007) ? the other is in North Carolina.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

John Nestor

We looked at private equity when we were considering hedge funds but there was no similar record of problems - evidence of fraud - that merited the devotion of inspection and other resources.

Saint Francis de Sales

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Oswald Chambers

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

John Ortberg

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Michael Masser

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Richard Harmon

I take laser tag incredibly seriously. I am an extremely competitive person - most likely a little over the top at times, but that's just who I am.

Mario Cuomo

He was agonizingly long, ... but don't make the mistake thinking that is a fatal error. I've known him as a governor for a long time and I think he's extremely talented. He has the strength of being able to focus. He has a single ambition, and he has always had this ambition, and it is to someday be president of the United States.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Jami Attenberg

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

G. H. Hardy

In one way or another, textiles are nearly everything we use everyday.

Jane Gardam

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Red Faber

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

Peter Piot

In Botswana, for example, two years ago about 36 percent of adults were HIV-positive, ... Today this is 39 percent, nearly 40 percent of all adults.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Ron Atkinson

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

Roger Martin

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Robinson Jeffers

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Robert Smith

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Sandra Bernhard

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

George Herbert

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.