Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Rick Jackson

We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.

Rob Simmons

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

Kalem Norton

It seems like Justin pitches better when the pressure is on and the bases are loaded. He put a lot of pitches over the plate in those situations, and our defense helped him out.

O. Singh

It seems the outfit is trying to regroup and establish bases in the country and these arrests are an indication of their motive.

Tony Taylor

They had the bases loaded an no outs there in the fifth. We brought Jimmy in there and he did a real good job of getting out of that inning.

Matt McCool

They had five 0-2 hits. We've got to get better in those situations. The difference in the game was that we struggled defensively. They had bases loaded in the second inning, they hit it to the mound and we throw it to the backstop." ()

John Reid

This is about 500 fewer than at present, reflecting the closure of two small bases in Basra, the transfer of some training tasks to the Iraqi security forces and structural differences between the two brigades,

Felipe Alou

This guy is only being judged by the home runs now. Right now, he's only capable of hitting home runs. He doesn't steal the bases anymore. He's not the (superb) left fielder anymore. He doesn't have the speed anymore. I believe that when we reach back, we are going to hide all that talent that started when he was a kid. Because there's no question about it, this guy's been great since he was a kid.

Pete Mackanin

It's tough to bring in a guy for his Major League debut with the bases loaded. But I figured everything will be downhill after that. Ollie wasn't throwing strikes, and I figured that was the best way to go at the time.

Patrick Vogt

We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Bob has been a visionary in the industry for many years and was the force behind our industry-leading graphics technology platform. We wish him success in his future endeavors.

Michael Musto

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

Mary Kaye

The power in you is not only the name of our organization. It's also the driving philosophy behind what we do.

Rene Locher

The positive rationale behind a deal would be the potential to cut more costs.

Bryan Fair

The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

Kevin Reilly

We are proud to have had the opportunity to bring television viewers one of the most acclaimed series in television history. From the venerable, moving performances by the first-rate cast to the sterling creative team behind the camera, this series has left an indelible imprint on the landscape of television drama.

F. Stone

We usually worked just a couple of miles behind the front lines. I guess a lot of our job was transferring gasoline from 55-gallon drums to 5-gallon cans,

Chris Moore

We struggled with their defensive pressure. After our good start, we started to play too much one-on-one and it got us out of our early rhythm. We could not get over the hump after we fell behind in the second (quarter).

David Perno

We struggled this weekend, and we knew going in this season we were going to be young at the number three spot in the rotation. With a couple pitchers out and the short outing by Mickey (Westphal) Saturday, we were behind the eight ball.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Simon Brown

We're still reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Most of the investigation is complete. At this point, we're largely in the evaluation stage of the review.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Pat Kennedy

We're experiencing some of the same financial circumstances some of our districts are.

Allan Urlis

We're in the same circumstance as customers where we purchase the natural gas on the commodity market and then supply that to customers at the same cost that MidAmerican purchases where there is no markup.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

David Leslie

There is no question about that. We do have to step up to the plate in that area. I think we are confident and if you look at the Under-17 Boys, six of them qualifying in the 100. That is a very good sign.

Richard Ness

There is no pollution. I am very confident about what the evidence shows. We will be exonerated.

Bill Ford

while maintaining the progress we have made in Europe and Asia. ... With these new appointments, I am confident that we have the leadership team in place to execute our plans and deliver outstanding results.

Mitchell Hurwitz

When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Plautus

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

Gaston Bachelard

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

George Santayana

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.