Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norm Dicks

Here's my problem with the Endangered Species Act: We don't take any eagles. We don't take any wolves.

Tom McCann

In one instance, a seller used a picture from Mote Marine Lab's Web site the same site that talks about how they are an endangered species.

Louie Gohmert

I'm wondering if we should gather up Kmart signs and put them on the endangered species list,

Mary Cantrell

These tortoises are endangered species. They are also very territorial. Unfortunately, they get killed trying to come back.

Jeff Tittel

Once a watershed is past 30 percent (developed) it's gone. Critters and endangered species are important, but the main reason for protecting the Pinelands was to preserve water quality, the aquifer and the rivers and estuaries.

Jeff Tittel

Once a watershed is past 30 percent (developed) it's gone, ... Critters and endangered species are important, but the main reason for protecting the Pinelands was to preserve water quality, the aquifer and the rivers and estuaries.

David Smith

It's really an important watershed area, and there are a number of endangered species there.

Tom Udall

It's an entitlement program for landowners that want to gut the Endangered Species Act,

Abdullah Ocalan

seriously endangered the...indivisible unity of the Turkish republic.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Daniel Bruhl

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Rodney Eade

He's been doing wrestling and competitive-type stuff for the past month.

Carl Jung

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Carl Jung

You can’t change the past, it just is

Carl Jung

You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask,she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Alexandra Picavet

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Rudolfo Anaya

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

William Christopher Handy

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Vash Young

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sarah Bernhardt

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Richard Rohr

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Richard Dawkins

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.