Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wolfowitz

Part of the challenge is that we were moving from an era when there were very substantial subsidies in energy prices. Some kind of adjustment is necessary.

Bobby Bowden

Whether you have 3-4 or 4-3, it's still seven. It's a very flexible defense. One you can really adjust well.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Nan Aron

With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.

Rick McCallum

When you make a lot of movies, some of them don't work. So when something does work and people are genuinely moved and you have 150 million people worldwide seeing a movie, believe me, it feels good and you want to snatch those victories from the air and hold onto them as long as you can, ... It just doesn't happen very often in the film business no matter whose career it is.

Mayor Giuliano

We all know that we're up in the rarified air as far as price. But I think people realize now that we're not making this up. It's a real budget, not a shell game. The community has said it wants a 50-year building, not a 27-year building. Well, if you really want it, here's the price tag.

Richard Segal

Uribe is such a breath of fresh air in Latin America; it's nice to have a country down there that's dependable.

Ahmed Khan

Two air ambulances are needed for speedy evacuation of the casualties; four mobile hospitals are needed,

Patricia Collins

We will be donating air time for 10 million public service announcements as well as $50,000 cash, and working with local shelters to provide them with free cable and high-speed Internet service.

Sam Bregman

We will argue vigorously that the federal courts have not only the right but the responsibility to declare that the Air Force guidelines violate the U.S. Constitution.

Steve Anderson

We have a cold system that settles over the Western U.S.. The low is situated so that the wind flow is coming from the north and northeast, bringing that cold air straight down from Canada.

Ken Scholen

If you owe money on the house you can use part of your reverse mortgage to pay off your current debt.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Stana Katic

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

Stanley Milgram

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

Tamora Pierce

Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

Tacitus

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Tacitus

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Sylvia Plath

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

Sylvia Plath

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Swami Vivekananda

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.