Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The breach of custom Is breach of all.

Tony Blair

Whether they were hidden or removed or destroyed even, the plain fact is that he was in breach of United Nations resolutions,

Kathleen Blanco

We've got an engineering nightmare trying to fill the breach of the levee where the waters are pouring into the city. I think they've been working on it all night, and they'll continue to work on it all day today.

Steven Kaplan

a breach of trust between the faculty and the board.

Gerald Schatten

a breach of trust about possible egg-donor irregularities.

Diane Feinstein

A major breach in these levees could imperil hundreds of thousands of people and endanger most of the state's water supply, ... As we have seen in New Orleans, it would be a dramatic mistake to further delay the repairs that are necessary to protect communities from the ravages of floodwaters.

David Gallop

Following the meeting with the New Zealand Warriors we have issued them with a breach notice informing them we plan to deduct four competition points and fine them $430,000.

Greg Canavan

It's a confluence of events, all these things are coming together to create further concern in the market. We'd expect oil to continue to rise and breach the old high of $70.85 over the next quarter.

Victor Ponta

There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory.

Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Prescott White

We actually delayed the encore so West and his management could see what was going on.

Jim Leach

We stressed that delay was not in anybody's interest, either procedurally or substantively,

Joe Hills

We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Roy Rening

With this, we hope that the authorities would delay the execution because there are key witnesses in this case.

Paul Oversier

We're not happy with the results. We had a major delay of service and had to evacuate a train with hundreds of people on it.

Tom Cirigliano

We're filing the suit to make sure our interests are protected. We have no intention to interfere with or delay the pending transaction between BP Amoco and Arco.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Manny Acta

It's a shame, but Pedro won't pitch in the Classic. I met with Pedro to talk about this; he did everything he could, and he was ready to join the team later in the competition, but his injury delayed his preparations.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Robert Schulz

At a minimum, we do not see any dramatic reversals for North American automakers.

Harold Evans

It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,

Bobby Bowden

They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic of all the games. We won the national championship that year, so we had to have it.

Bill Clinton

This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.

Martha Firling

It's not the full-fledged, three-act opera with the overly dramatic theatrics. It's light and fun.

Michael Gronstal

It's obviously a surprise for people, but I don't think it makes a dramatic difference.

Gellert

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

Ben Nelson

There will be a rather dramatic shift from the typically dry months of March and April, to the rainy season that is underway by June.

Hal Harper

There is no question in our mind that there needs to be hard boundaries. We will do nothing to endanger our brucellosis-free status.

Peter Banko

It's not moving and ... the cardiologists do not feel it's going to move. ... If it were in a position where it's going to move they would have gone in and done surgery immediately. It's not in a position where they think it's going to move any further to endanger his health.

Terry Maple

They're highly endangered in the wild and there's only a small population in captivity,

Alex Meraz

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

Christopher Hitchens

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Larry Craig

This is the exception, not the rule to the Endangered Species Act.

William Bratton

We are taking the unprecedented step of sharing what we can with you, but I am not about to give to any of you tactics that might endanger my officers,

John Young

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

Margaret Thomas

We are trying to get people to think it's not just the rain forest and endangered species. It is not just the physical environment.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Alia Faraj

We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Drew Mitchell

We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would.

Charles Smulders

With Vista further out in the future, sales are less likely to slow down now.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Joni Finney

At first it will be business, then it will be other high-cost majors like nursing and engineering. We're really discouraging people from going into high-demand fields.

Al Rauch

It seems like it's not really a major association,

David Flum

This is a major operation in a high-risk population.

John Thorn

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Al Becker

It's tough to know how we're going to respond. This is an extraordinarily competitive industry. If something occurs at a major competitor, we'll have to take a look at that.

Tim Sloane

It's not like we haven't seen this before from every major vendor with every major product. I don't think it's going to make all that much of a difference.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Alan Grayson

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

Alan Greenspan

If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

Alan Greenspan

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Alan Greenspan

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,

Alain Prost

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Al Neuharth

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Robert Creeley

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

John Ellis

This is an unusual step for us, but not unprecedented. We feel this is necessary and appropriate.

Justin Ohlemiller

That's why we have the perimeter set up to keep pedestrian traffic out of the area. It's obviously still necessary to protect the public's safety.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Abdul Jalil

They need to protect the militants in their own fold.

Leon Russell

There is very little you can protect in a situation like this,

Richard Falkenrath

There was a lot of jockeying at the time to try and protect turf.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Bruce Schneier

Sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? ... It is a protection racket.

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

Pam Davis

It smells putrid. If I had come by myself and seen this, I probably wouldn't have stayed.

Dan Sumner

It's the trend we've seen for a long time.

Leo Beenhakker

(There will be) no new guys. We have seen everybody.

Michael Hearst

It's a different distribution than we've seen before.

Emily LaGrassa

It's a little unclear why he was released. They should have seen that he had a warrant.

Michael Kelley

This is what's coming, ... We haven't seen the worst of it yet.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Ben Johnson

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Charlie Melancon

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

Bob Saget

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Bill Watterson

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Catherine Booth

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Camille Paglia

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.