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average bigger game per points sharing somebody
Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat. Bobby Martin
average prize-money competition
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. Bobby Rahal
average people trying
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. Florence Nightingale
average suits income
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. George Orwell
average class soul
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
average would-be literature
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'
average missing looks
It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average. Cassandra Clare
average feelings rising
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. George Eliot
average growth president
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. Fred Allen
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government air law
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. Daniel Inouye
government television monopoly
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. David Attenborough
government law political
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. Daniel Webster
government needs not-afraid
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know. Ann Richards
government firsts first-amendment
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. Robert Bork
government alternatives failing
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.
government law leader
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. Thomas More
government evil necessary-evil
Government is a necessary evil Thomas Paine
voters
Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.