Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Whitman

we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.

Connie Maina

Whenever there is a drought, the first casualties are usually hippos who live in the water.

Ra'anan Gissin

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

Raziq Bugti

The number of casualties and the damage suggest that there could have been more than one landmine but we have not confirmed that at this stage.

Kevin White

They are taking on volunteers who can stand the rigors, ... Some of the volunteers are sleeping on the floor. They don't want people to go down there and become casualties themselves. The people who aren't able to withstand those difficulties are probably better suited to stay here and help out.

Ike Skelton

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Steve Boylan

As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up,

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Dennis Kucinich

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Brandon Farr

We were trying to get some young guys some work, guys who hadn't been getting as many innings on the weekend. So that was the initial plan either way. So it worked out where a guy would struggle, but we had a guy ready to go.

Max Heindel

As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Vicki Kramer

The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jim Kolbe

They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.

James Awad

This Iranian issue is lurking as tension in the background. It's going to keep oil higher until it works its way out.

Mark Tolbert

They said that it might have higher than it should have been.

Rex Osborn

There was no risk or any concern. The livestock there went to higher ground.

Susan Gunderson

There's a higher likelihood that (blood profiles) will match within your own minority population.

Loretta Worters

It's all about how much your pocketbook can afford. You can take a higher deductible, but if you have an accident, you are going to pay a little more.

Mike Intravaia

I told the kids the expectations get higher every season because we started with a young group.

Emmanuel Ferry

This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent in June 1999, ... Euro-zone inflation should come in around 2.2 percent in June, and the ECB is likely to respond with a 25-basis-point rate rise in September.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Moe Ammar

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

Jacques Chiron

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Diane Ackerman

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

John Mayall

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.

Jack Straw

those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

Matt Dunn

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

Judy Hayles

She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Mark Forest

Absentee voters used to be a unique demographic group. Now they're more likely to look like the rest of the state with each passing election.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Khuram Chaudhry

It seems like the U.S. markets are likely to see a sloppy start after Friday's sessions,

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Alan Watts

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Alan Moore

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.