Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Morris Raphael Cohen

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Lynsey Addario

I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.

Tom Herman

Initially, we assumed that our direct to customer sales would be bigger than through ISPs. However, now we've realized that ISPs can be a critical part of the plan.

Johns Hopkins

In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent families are better for children than one-parent families, ... But a number of studies now suggest that the well-being of children in mother-stepfather families is no greater, on average, than in single-parent families.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

John Hahn

Ken and Steve never connected today. With the opening of free agency, Ken spent most of his time on the phone. He hopes to speak with Steve by Wednesday.

Jamaal Lewis

He used to be my roommate last year, so we got a little connection going. A little wink, a little eye contact every now and then - we just kind of feed off each other.

Josh Bidwell

He connected really well with the kids. He shared some real solid truth with them.

Greg Behrendt

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected some dots,' you know? That's what makes people laugh. And then you go and take it on the stage, and sometimes it works, and sometimes people go, 'What's he talking about?' I don't know; I thought it was it funny in the kitchen.

Steve Earle

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Nadine Velazquez

I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

Donald Rumsfeld

What we will be doing at NATO is trying to help people connect the dots before something happens rather than afterwards.

Raina Telgemeier

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Deborah Fallows

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

James Allen

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Keiichi Sano

The current high inventories will be consumed during the maintenance. Gasoline demand remains strong in the U.S..

Jack Nicklaus

It was great for me because it felt like I actually had done something well and I hadn't prepared for it. I hadn't prepared for it like I did 10 years earlier when I would just be consumed by it.

Zheng Jingping

The oil price increase surely will have impact on China's economy as 40 percent of oil consumed in the country is imported, ... especially on some sectors, like agricultural means of production, oil refinery and public transport. But the impact is limited.

Arundhati Roy

Electricity produced in the name of the poor is consumed by the rich with endless appetites,

Michael Jimenez

You are who you are, and it is what it is. Don't get consumed with the meaningless details.

Colin Campbell

As this poster makes abundantly clear, we've already consumed about half of the world's total endowment of regular conventional oil. This has provided most supply to-date and will dominate all supply far into the future. We are now entering the second half of the Oil Age, and face the relentless decline of production, imposed by nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Julie Raeder

Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as gelatin or flavored ice treats, or foods that contain a lot of liquid such as soup are measured as part of your fluid intake. For most people, the foods consumed count for about 20 percent of one's fluid intake.

Peter Ward

Guests who stay at the Hilton are paying premium dollars for a safe, secure, well-run hotel, and they deserve to have that. I don't know what's worse, all the Hilton violations or the way they keep covering them up.

Edgerrin James

He said he was tired of having everybody covering him. He said if we could just get a back, the team wants to win.

Michael Huff

I was deep free safety, or I was strong safety in the box, or covering the slot, or outside covering. I was all over the place.

Ron Anderson

I thought the local media outlets did a good job of covering it in advance.

Brandon McKinney

I didn't like defensive line so much, ... It's more my thing to be out there covering receivers and blitzing from the outside.

Randy Cross

I'd be very surprised if this doesn't become a staple for any network covering the NFL.

Tim White

It's like 12 frames of a home movie, but a home movie covering 6 million years.

Dan Steele

It's forced local districts to fill in the gaps however they can, so levies are much more important to them. It's not covering 'extras' in a lot of districts, it's bread-and-butter issues.

Julie Burchill

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Baron

He wants match play, it's his hometown and it works for him.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

Winfield Scott Hancock

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Tim Walz

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Richard Myers

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Heinz Guderian

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

Friedrich St. Florian

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.