Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Reston

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Kevin Costner

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Mark Kimmitt

The casualty figures that we have received from the enemy are somewhere about 10 times that amount, ... About civilian casualties, there is no authoritative figure out there.

Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is the truth.

Frank Hsieh

The damage and casualty situation right now looks as if we have had some good fortune in the midst of this misfortune,

Phil Rosenthal

It's over the top, it's a thrill a minute. ... The casualty list is horrendous. But it's exciting. And it keeps you going.

Jan Egeland

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.

Michael Ward

It's ironic that of all the shows in the West End, this should be the first casualty of the bombings on July 7 and 21.

Rob Haines

It was a mildly disappointing quarter. Operating earnings missed the analysts' target and the property and casualty side was worse than I thought.

Suzy Pelican

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Dan Schnur

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Stephen Hess

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Yasser Arafat

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Srikantha Herath

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

Jan Egeland

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

Trevor Rowe

If you're in the insurance industry, you want to be able to diversify your portfolio because that spreads your risk.

Joe Biden

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Carolyn Gorman

The master policy will have liability insurance in it for shared spaces, like sidewalks, gutters and walkways.

Peggy Shepard

He told me to take my insurance card.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

Ben Holmes

Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William J. Clinton

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Roger Scruton

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

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.

H. Hart

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

Don Miller

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

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Jack Johnson

We're all related. We're all a family.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Rowan Atkinson

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

Ted Demme

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.