Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

Ignacio Bunye

With the President's order to make public the contents of the report, we hope that this would help end the intrigues intended to malign the President and divide our Armed Forces.

Dave Bennett

They never go out without an armed person,

Edilberto Adan

This conflict could not be sustained by bandit groups of armed men without logistics support,

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Tsubasa Ihara

The point for next week is whether or not the Nikkei will be able to break the 13,000 mark.

Jia Qinglin

The ongoing drive to build a harmonious society in China has provided valuable opportunities for the united front organizations and CPPCC to break new ground in their causes.

David Johnson

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

Mike Johnson

We started pressuring them and they started throwing turnovers. We were just fast breaking and started coming back and gaining some confidence.

Mark Stern

We are looking forward to joining forces with Stan and Bruce to search the universe for these fearless competitors. At some point in their lives, everyone has wanted to break out and be heroic, and now is the chance for a chosen few to shed their every-day identities and truly express their inner superhero.

Terry Smith

We struggled at the line a little bit. We took what they gave us. We had a couple of break downs on defense and gave them a touchdown.

Robert Been

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Gerhard Schroeder

Where it is necessary, programs will be further developed with public discussion,

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Gene Meyers

We're sticking with technology that has been developed and used.

Von Hatley

What made the difference? I think at the end of the day it was the personal and professional relationships we developed with this company.

Nina Jacobson

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

Robert Klein

As we developed that reputation, the volume has increased, ... Being a new facility and having high visibility, we felt that it was a product line that we wanted to focus on.

Geno Zamora

About a year ago I realized I had developed a set of skills that could help our state, and I was raised that you give back to your community. I want to use my skills to help and protect the people of New Mexico.

Stacey Koerner

They have developed a real expertise for synchronous Internet applications linked to TV content.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Sonnie Bentley

We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.

David Boreanaz

The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic.

Louis Armstrong

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Claudia Coles

We're seeing an increase of producers entering into the raw milk market.

Dennis Miller

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Jon Fredrikson

We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

Pierre Bonnard

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Teun Draaisma

Profit growth is going to slow down dramatically. It's not a great level to be entering the equity market.

Sgt. Urbas

Technically, it's beautiful. This is much quicker than entering plate numbers by hand. It's a matter of seconds.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Becky Bailey

It's an updated, modernized engraving. It's Jefferson as you've never seen him before.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

Bethany McLean

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

Paul Quantrill

This was a blip in the road for Jeff Francis. He is going to pitch in the majors for a long time.

Craig Cameron

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs,

Tracy McGrady

I would have griped about (being taken out) because we were playing so well. We wanted to win this game. I was really going to talk (coach Jeff Van Gundy) into leaving me out there, even though they wanted to keep my minutes down.

Meggie Ford

I got to know Jeff after he was under our mentorship,

Brad Buckman

It was something I had to at least try because Joe is such a load down low. He's so physical, you've got to do anything you can.

Caitlin Kittredge

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

Joe Wilson

So they can say that Joe Wilson supports the Kerry campaign, and that's true.

Bobby Bowden

Sometimes you miss at the wrong time. Joe was having that problem for a while.

Lyndell Zanotti

This is the first time we've experienced something like this. We'll have to somehow keep focused. It will be hard. I'm sure we'll talk about Joe the rest of the season. He'll be in the back of our minds every time we play.

Bill Cowher

That's just Joey being Joey. I'm proud he made it this long.

Bob Williams

You need support from the administration, ... Mr. (Ernest) Joe has been great.

Ken Marino

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

Lykke Li

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Jason Furman

The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Dean Kamen

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Mason Cooley

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Richard Garnett

he's not going to be a pushover or a shrinking violet.

Edith Cavell

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Dennis C. Blair

All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

Benjamin Franklin

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

Barbra Streisand

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Avicenna

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Benjamin Whichcote

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

Charles Krauthammer

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Bill Parcells

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

John Dingell

I trust them, but I'm watching them very closely,

Lorraine McConaghy

I trust Phelps. There's work I have to do yet." ()

Daniel Handler

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

Virginia Woolf

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Brian Dawkins

They have some weapons over there, ... We're going to have to come and play. And I think we know that.

Andy Fisher

It's a celebration of 18th-century weaponry and 18th-century equipment.

Iain Banks

Tell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons

Mike Ruddock

The scrum is a big weapon and it got us back in the match,

Fadel Gheit

The only weapon they can use is oil.

Douglas Coupland

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.