Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important that, to the extent possible, those contingency plans be coordinated, that each branch work in concert with the other. I don't think that's been done adequately to date, but I am confident that it could be in the future,

Peter Angelos

I think the past three years Jim Beattie has been leading the effort with strong assistance from Mike. Now it will be Mike's chance. I think Mike is very capable and a very bright guy who certainly is adequate to perform the job.

Kathy Lewis

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Piet Smith

We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances and equipment, we can't render this service as well as we should be.

Richard Martin

We are finding that the President has surrounded himself with some capable and pretty knowledgeable people. I am comfortable that they will adequately be able to represent the issues.

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

John Hines

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

Daniel H. Hill

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Daniel H. Hill

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

George Haven Putnam

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

James Stockdale

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.

Oliver North

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Henry Knox

Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.

James Longstreet

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Calamity Jane

In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey.

Janis Karpinski

If you hold thousands of prisoners, you have to feed them, clothe them, care for them, provide medical attention - and there were no provisions.

Ilham Patu

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

Dick Gregory

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Bible Bible

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

Bill Shelton

This includes trees, light poles, buildings, or any other property belonging to the city.

David Blunkett

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

Bob Hill

I see these lands as belonging to the people of Nipomo and California, not the Land Conservancy.

Tom Stoppard

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Robin Clifford

Personnel belonging to either of these categories who remain in Kosovo after midnight tonight will be subject to robust KFOR enforcement,

Abdul Kalam

While condemning this inhuman act, nations have the collective responsibility to device a mechanism to see that such situation do not occur in future for any citizen of India and also any person belonging to any part of the world.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is a member of the government of Iraq and an official of the government of Iraq, and there are things that are important for us to talk about with him.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

Peter Simonson

If proper safeguards had been in place, these assaults may never have occurred.

David Chang

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

C. S. Lewis

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.