Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Paulison

The Assistance to Firefighters grants represent a major effort by the federal government to ensure that the nation's firefighters continue to have the basic capability they require to do their jobs, improve safety and save lives.

Karen Lee

The assistance systems in Louisiana are very overwhelmed right now. It feels great to step in from thousands of miles away and play even a small role in helping people get back on their feet,

Sander Levin

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

Roger Wicker

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

Peter Singer

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.

Patsy Riley

We wanted to make sure that members were able to get the prescriptions they need even though their applications had not been formally approved. With this premium assistance program, we hope to avoid putting members in a situation where they might experience financial hardship.

Andrew Natsios

will help American citizens learn more about official U.S. assistance for Iraq and make contributions to high-impact development projects.

Steve Bailey

We have people in this state who may need assistance, and the people who can provide assistance don't know who they are and how to get in touch with them.

Navtej Sarna

We have offered all possible assistance for rescue and relief measures.

Russ Martin

That was a very hard choice. That's something I always wanted to do for Canada.

Wayne Gretzky

We know that this country wants gold and nothing else is good enough. That's the expectation for Canada when it comes to hockey and we know that. We aren't kidding ourselves. We know we have to win the gold. We don't have anything else on our minds.

Charles Wilson

We know that the people of Canada are independent, freedom-loving folks who are willing to work for the things they would like to have.

Patrick Chan

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

Ruth Ozeki

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Pico Iyer

Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.

Mark French

To know it was that close to you, it was a little awe-inspiring, especially for a kid from Canada. It's kind of the Holy Grail.

Cathy Allinger

We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.

E. B. White

We've had folks from at least 25 of the 50 states to be here, as well as persons from Ireland, and South Korea, as well as Canada and Mexico as well.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Gian Fulgoni

You actually see people spending more time online because you've eliminated the pain of waiting. And they spend more money because online shopping is easier.

Bryce Kaneshiro

Kaiser, they always step it up in the playoffs. They eliminated us last year, I didn't forget that.

Suzanne Somers

I did trial and error on myself and it took two months. I eliminated all the sugars, obvious sugars, and I ate carbohydrates separate from protein.

Deron Williams

We're still in it. We haven't been eliminated yet. We've just got to keep fighting.

John Gibbons

We're not eliminated yet. I'm proud of the way the guys have played this year, they get after it. We're only going to get better.

Allen Iverson

We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.

Van Chancellor

The day that we were eliminated from the playoffs was the day I vowed that would never happen again. I spent every waking moment, in some form or fashion, thinking about a way to get us back.

Bobby Bowden

I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.

Ryan Ray

Our recycling program has also reduced our solid waste by up to one-third with a savings of approximately $13,000 for the first year, and we eliminated the need for a confidential services vendor, which saved us $22,000.

Giancarlo Esposito

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and mediation practice.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Elton Brand

That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Charles Grassley

No Senator has the right to insist on his or her own issue-by-issue philosophy, or seek commitments from nominees on specific litmus test questions likely to come before that court.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.