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.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Jim Newberry

We've all seen the bickering, divisiveness and the lack of sense of vision for urban county government. That all needs to fundamentally change.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Graham Hawkes

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Tibor Kalman

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Suki Waterhouse

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Dave Roberts

There are so many other ways that they could go with their lives. If I can be a role model in any way, I welcome that.

Kate Warne

I think the market's really in a waiting mode right now and it's not too surprising it would move rather dramatically on anything that was announced.

Mike Urbanski

What I like most about him is his leadership. He is a terrific role model for the younger guys.

Bob Dole

I think it's pretty obvious the model for victory is the Ronald Reagan model,

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

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.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.