Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Jordan

He did his best, and cleverly, to imply that he's sympathetic to Roe and its value as precedent. But we'd be foolish to take his testimony as an assurance that he's supportive of the right to choice or even the more fundamental right to privacy.

Walter Jamieson

Hawaii is a model -- the (Pacific) Tsunami Warning Center, excellent warning systems for hurricanes, good first-responder services. This whole level of providing assurance is important.

Ron Wyden

There is no assurance that even one drop of Alaskan oil will get to hurting Americans,

Sen Jenkins

There is no assurance if you cut the (tax) by 3 cents, the consumer gets a dime of it.

Jim White

The people we serve stand to benefit greatly from the vast knowledge and expertise that Engineers Without Borders can provide to Mercy Corps, especially in the design, management and quality assurance of large infrastructure projects.

Tony Bennett

It gives the young men some assurance that things are going to be maintained,

Judith Miller

He was pressing about what you would say. When I wouldn't give him an assurance that you would exonerate Libby, if you were to cooperate, he then immediately gave me this, 'Don't go there,' or, 'We don't want you there.'

Craig Carper

I can give you an assurance that's going to be fixed.

Jim Ryun

In fact, after the Senate passed it, I went straight to the committee chairman and said we need to see if we can at least have a hearing and move forward on it, ... He gave me some sense of assurance he'd go back and look at it again.

Bobby Hauck

Jake's a good tackler. That's how guys who walk onto your program find their way onto the field, and that's the benefit of going live out here and watching them play.

Bob Hartwig

Jackson kids are going to benefit because every school will be in good condition if the bond package passes. There won't be the same inequities in the buildings.

Burt Rutan

Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

Sathya Baba

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Mike Wallace

Just merging the two organizations has a lot of challenges, ... The potential pitfalls and opportunities for disagreements exceed whatever benefits could be gained.

Kelly Ryan

Just make sure that, you know, give her the benefit of the doubt one more time.

Marcia Stefanick

Just switching to low-fat foods is not likely to yield much health benefit in most women. Rather than trying to eat 'low-fat,' women should focus on reducing saturated fats and trans fats.

Tom Shea

Jon Corzine did not benefit in any way shape or form from this vote.

Larry Ellison

Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.

Uri Dan

Herzl declared the Jewish State in Basel and Sharon outlined its borders in Crawford, ... From the moment he decided that he has to consolidate the Jewish state lines, it was as good as done.

Gary Mickelson

We support comprehensive immigration reform including a solution that provides better control over our borders and more effective tools to help companies verify the documents of the people they hire. We also support a guest worker program and a process for undocumented workers already in the U.S. to be able to earn permanent legal status.

Edward Thomas

I have come to the borders of sleep,/ The unfathomable deep/ Forest where all must lose/ Their way.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

Dave Nabity

He is not dealing with illegal immigration and doing everything he can to close the borders and stop the influx of illegal immigration.

Nabil Sha'ath

We can make progress on the territorial issue, on the borders and settlement and territory in general,

William J. Clinton

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

Ronald Reagan

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

William Empson

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Nancy Lewis

If there are engineers out there looking for jobs, we have the resources.

Kerry Sieh

If nothing ruptured, then that's really good news for the engineers who were trying to make it in fact so that it wouldn't.

Tim Powell

The military police were there to provide support to local law enforcement, and the engineers were used for search-and-recovery mission support and evacuation support,

Tim Powell

The military police were there to provide support to local law enforcement , and the engineers were used for search-and-recovery mission support and evacuation support ,

Dale Jarrett

It's incredible what has taken place. I think that's why we see so many competitive teams now, because not only with what NASCAR has done with templates and things, but the engineers we have involved now.

John Mayer

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Luke Nosek

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Paul Sarbanes

His expertise will be missed in the Congress,

Hank McKinnell

By transferring their expertise to local healthcare workers, these Fellows make lasting contributions to support health systems in communities ravaged by diseases. The Pfizer Global Health Fellows program represents an innovative collaboration between NGOs and the private sector to significantly improve the lives of people around the world in a sustainable way.

John Chamberlain

I'm surprised he won't be staying on the board. They could have used his expertise going forward.

Dan Hoffman

The middle market is a growing opportunity for us. Jamie and Scott have the expertise we need to leverage the strengths of the firm.

Rob Pupich

Their expertise has been a great help to me as far as doing things in practice and making adjustments in games.

Magda Stoczkiewicz

The EIB does not have its own safeguard procedures on indigenous peoples or resettlement. There is also hardly any expertise within the EIB on development issues, poverty or especially on environmentally sustainable development.

Kevin Burns

This is our method for providing our expertise to the community. If someone wants to staff the station full time around the clock, we'll look at a different avenue.

Roxane Gay

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

Richard Wagenaar

It is gone. It is literally leveled in places. The power of the surge in this storm was greatly underestimated.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

David Lubell

Immigrants are contributing greatly to this state, and they want people to recognize that fact.

James Graf

I'm greatly relieved. We could not have scripted something better.

Tim Miles

I'm greatly appreciative of that. Money's great and all, don't get me wrong, but that's not what this was about.

Bobbie Williams

That's one contribution to this team that's greatly appreciated. Management has seen the steps that we need and they're making them. I know our linebackers will be happy.

Paul Wolfowitz

That kind of participation in decision-making at the local level greatly helps the development process.

Buzz Hargrove

The likelihood of a strike tomorrow at midnight is greatly reduced.

Jean Piaget

Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

Ethel Mumford

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person

Nick Harkaway

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

A. Hodge

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Gene Taylor

What you lost was a lot of local knowledge,

Rusty Wallace

I think by the end of the year, he'd have a lot of knowledge. He'd be up on the wheel and ready to go then.

Persian Proverb

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Bob Lewis

Having this large a turnout made it a very special day for the series,

Gerd Langguth

It could be her first large setback but let's wait and see.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Gary Morgan

(L-3) is one of the big players in the security field. This is a large step.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Healy

I think it's reasonable to give the new management time to look over the details, though I don't know how Ford's plans are going to change.

Jason Klein

I think that a leveraged buyout by management is also possible.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Ethan Siegal

He may prove to be totally innocent, but this is a negative -- a big distraction -- for his presidential ambitions and management of the Senate.

Sam Altman

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tim Baker

If you put a wilderness designation on there, the management options are gone,

Vera Brittain

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

William Blake

Time is the Mercy of Eternity

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

William Camden

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.

Bible Bible

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

John Dryden

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: the first is law; the last, prerogative.

Joseph Addison

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

Pope John Paul II

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

John Rutledge

There is enough saving in the world to provide the capital.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Tim Duffy

In some of these areas, we are the only provider of coverage.

Joseph Stefanov

It has to provide a return (for the village).

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Igor Shpilband

I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.

William Wilberforce

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Wittman

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

John Petersen

They serve tough, but we have to get up some dumps, we have to be all over those balls.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

Once you violate parole, you must serve the remainder of the sentence.

Ed McClanahan

I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Christian Ramirez

We've got to stand up and take charge. This is a revolution.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Larry Nelson

I want to win here, stand on the 18th green, and say I'm going to the World Series.

Richard Alseth

I will not stand here and trash and humiliate you for murdering our daughter.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Thomas Stallkamp

He doesn't stand for a lot of BS.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.