Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Sharon Rainey

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

George Balle

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

Steve Glynn

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Gen Musharraf

He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system,

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Wietse Venema

Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents.

Doug Rockel

If you order a paperback book, slower delivery time via the mail or UPS is fine. But if you've ordered a fur coat, then FedEx is more of an option.

Florence Mumba

In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the true democracy we want.

Mark Cuban

As unique opportunities come up to highlight our content, we will use this great delivery platform.

Bill Ferguson

They had a look in the delivery truck and there was no sign of him.

Peter Chapman

It was supposed to be a simple delivery trip home after the racing,

Charles Dickens

United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company.

Steve Carr

I would say they were very heroic. I understand the staff was efficient and professional.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Linda Lingle

I think the governors right now are learning a tough lesson...I think you realize quickly that it's a combination of doing things in a more efficient manner, making sure you are maximizing the money you are getting from Washington.

Cary Justmann

I thought we played a very efficient match as a team. Our kids played with a lot of focus. I'm very proud of the effort they gave.

Danny Ainge

I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores with fewer shots.

Kent Carper

We make sure the consolidation can be efficient before we take on these projects. We can do it if we need to, but the question is do we have to do it?

Wayne Pollet

If you do your job right and become efficient at it, you won't get hurt.

Nuno Camara

In our view this outcome is positive for Serra was seen by the markets as a micro manager. Someone who is an efficient administrator but who is also -- rightly or wrongly -- perceived as very interventionist.

John Kim

I'm going with a smaller, more gas efficient car.

Carmelo Anthony

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

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Marc Savard

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

Jill Paton Walsh

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Johnny Damon

I know how to manage little injuries. I can get through this.

Cyrus Broacha

I have no idea how women manage their hair. Seriously.

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Rick Riordan

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

William J. Clinton

[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

Werner Heisenberg

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Robert Pattinson

I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Rick Springfield

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.