Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Candice Johnson

The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody.

D. James

We have always stated our desire to do a long-term contract with the Colts, or work out a trade.

Lavan Gopaul

We've got seven normal trading days until futures closeout and there is a large open interest on the March contract of about 200-odd thousand. It is probably going to be one of the largest closeouts with the result that we can see rollovers and a lot of them.

Veronica Barrett

We're working to the contract, which means we're still working to last year's contract, and we're not putting in any extras. We're working the time that we are contracted for, and nothing more.

Alan Mulally

We're very pleased with today's contract ratification by our machinists and look forward to their return to work,

Tim Waters

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Wole Soyinka

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Paul Matthews

We have a multitude of recourses at our disposal that are not only good weather-orientated.

Al Fields

We expect to have as many as 500 pieces of equipment at our disposal including private contractors.

Kay Hagan

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

Nina Easton

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

Mark Steber

It's important to get started early, get organized and use all the tools at your disposal to maximize the size and speed of any tax refund you may get.

Michael Zolensky

I was 8 years old. We studied wastewater disposal and planets.

Cal Thomas

Once it is established that some lives are less valuable and less meaningful than other lives (as happened in Roe), the rest is merely who's next and how quickly we can move forward with the disposal process.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Seline Skoug

We're really hoping that in the next year or so, we can expand even more.

Dakota Pawlicki

We really want to expand as an RSO and help the community.

Ted Roof

Well expand what were doing a little bit.

Stan Pohmer

To be complete, to be a destination for food rather than just a place to pick up a few staples, Target really has to expand its grocery.

Andrew Sukawaty

Basically, it is going to expand our services and extend the life of our service to the end of the next decade,

Sal Galatioto

I expected the hockey fans to want hockey. The question is will they be able to expand the business. The stronger teams are going to be in good shape. We'll see what happens to more marginalized franchise.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Tim White

It fills the gap in the fossil record there in Ethiopia.

Werner Herzog

It fills me with joy to see Dieter (Dengler) again.

Sam Francis

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

Bob Greenly

He tackles very well in the open field. He fills on the run and is getting better at pass defense. He's big (6-1, 241), strong and mobile.

Bob Greenly

He tackles very well in the open field, ... He fills on the run and is getting better at pass defense. He's big (6-1, 241), strong and mobile.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Neil Peart

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

Edmund Burke

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain

Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

Elliot Washington

We have a habit of being lackadaisical, playing up and down.

Carlos Tosca

I worried he'd hit me in the coconut, so I got into the habit of turning my back to the plate when we had runners on second and third.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Marc LaVorgna

We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.

Michael Redhill

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

David Hogan

Habitat protection for the toad translates into water quality protection for the people.

Gerry Jones

He was very knowledgeable about their habits and what it would take to get rid of them.

Gordon Auchincloss

He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.

Mike Mularkey

He has some talent there running the ball. I don't want him to make a habit of it, but with a first-year quarterback, the thought process speeds up and typically the first instinct is to run.

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Nikki Sixx

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

Bill Vaughan

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Marcus Samuelsson

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.

Chris Tucker

You just inspired me and my whole generation,

Barry Lopez

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Diana Light

I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Joubert

Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed.

Jurnee Smollett

I have so many passions outside of my passion for acting.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.