Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Schnur

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Stephen Hess

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Yasser Arafat

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Emile M. Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Drew Peck

It's not a disaster. But it's just not good enough to rally the stock.

Nizam Idris

It's not a disaster because you know this sector (pharmaceuticals) is very volatile. It's not a trend.

Brett Gallagher

Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

Kevin Blemkin

Refineries are going to be slow to recover. I'm not too excited about the downside for prices. We still have disruptions. We won't get a real picture of the market today because people are away in the U.S.

S. Walker

In order for the program to work it has to have some teeth and that's the downside if you're not willing to make a full-blown commitment.

John Herrmann

The downside for them on the appraisal is it could come in at $650,000.

Jerry Miller

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

Richard McKenzie

This is the downside of the lack of pollution in New Zealand.

Bill Brandt

This is the downside of doing an all-debt plan.

Charles Schumer

Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outweighed the upside of him being a Rehnquist,

Katie Townshend

We've had a nice run off of late-April's lows and the market is digesting these gains. We'll probably start moving to the downside next week.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Ryan Lochte

I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I'm just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast for me.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Johnny Damon

He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Kevin McAvoy

He left a fastball right outside and I just went with it, did what I could with it.

Steve Cox

He?s a great athlete. He?s a gunner on punt team, because he?s right there with our fastest guys. He runs a 4.7 40-yard dash. He can do practically anything.

Mike Setzer

He's a fast receiver, he looks like he's walking when he's running.

Mike MacDougal

He's a fast guy and I was trying to make the play. We battled back. I gave up a run at the wrong time.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Sarah Robinson

I have gained back much more than what I lost in Katrina.

Michael Griffin

The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses. That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight.

Dan Jenkins

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Jonathan Diamond

It is not something handled by this office.

Larry Campbell

I don't (foresee) any problems, ... If there were, those problems are handled immediately.

Felipe Alou

It will be interesting to see how this is going to be handled and what is going to be handled.

Earl Calloway

I've just been waiting for the University to make a decision. They handled the business. I mean, I don't think we're signing any contracts.

Peter Phelps

The whole Charlotte/Spence romance was handled very well I thought, with some very smart writing that addressed issues before they are even raised,

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Mike Seward

We should have handled the press better but we couldn't keep up with their quickness.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Orhan Pamuk

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

Brett Beal

The need to seek relief from the stress at work, you know, the stress at home.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.