Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Lord Mayor

This city has bred some great writers and we want others to be inspired by this competition to share their experiences of this wonderful city,

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Robin Golay

I've trained and bred more than 4,000 dogs over the years. The next logical step was to try and feed them.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

George Eliot

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Suzi Babos

We accomplished our main goal of staying undefeated at home. Now we look forward to welcoming Stanford because we have a lot deeper lineup than last year. I expect a close match.

Dave Hubert

We always have the expectation that we will work as hard as we can to win as many games a possible. In spite of losing some close games early, this team did improve as the year went on.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Tom Vilsack

As we move into a freer marketplace, it's incumbent upon us to show how crops can be used in a wider way,

Kelly Fero

This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.

Jaap Brakke

For many years the rain was pouring down and the crops failed. So first the people would start offering the gods food, and then tools and other things of value. When everything failed, the elders would decide to make the ultimate offering. There is no written history of what happened there, but what we do have is a record of human sacrifice.

Franklin P. Jones

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Jane Rissler

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Jeremy Rifkin

These new genetically engineered food crops are the first wave of a generation of 'Brave New World' foods that are going to have serious health and environmental repercussions,

Gregory Rodriguez

I've made it all my life, had some tough times and some good times, but I don't know how to make these (ends) meet, ... I thought in the spring I had one of the better crops around here and then overnight it took a different change.

Brian Bethune

The risk to crops and farms won't be as significant if it loses force, ... When you look at the lessons from Katrina, the eventual damage to agriculture was less than feared. The department of agriculture actually revised up its estimates of production in the state after Katrina passed.

Brian Jones

The Valley's a unique place; we're able to grow crops year-round.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Tom Lubin

We're providing a service that's very valuable to students, ... It's free to students and free to schools with scholarships. We're filling an essential need.

Marcus Samuelsson

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

George Packer

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

Tsutomu Takebe

It's essential to have all the four islands returned to Japan.

Madeline Albright

It's essential that we stay there and finish the job, ... The American military that I met with when I was there, they understood why they were there and understood the value of peacekeeping.

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

Patrick Michaels

This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.

Roger Johnson

They're more expensive, but they last forever, ... and you can grain and stain them to look just like wood.

David Marshall

Producers will withhold their grain from the market if they can. The elevators will tend to withhold grain from the market.

Mike Orr

At one point during harvest, we were paying more to transport the grain from Clayton to the Gulf than we paid for the grain.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

William Shakespeare

May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!

Ken Beck

Land is a commodity, just like grain or anything else. And the time may come when they might want to 1031 their way out of here, too.

James Heath

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We'll do it in steps; I'm hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

Donna Shalala

The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator.

Obie Schramm

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

Michael Rabasca

We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.

Victoria Snelgrove

There were 80,000 people there that night, and just a handful of them wreaked havoc, ... How do we stop that? How do we get the message across?

Kevin Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region. Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

E. O. Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region, ... Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

Pete Scouras

They're going to be a handful all year, not just (tonight). He's got em playing like they're supposed to be playing and that's a tribute to him. He's done a whale of a job.

Larry Rice

Any rally we're going to see is not going to be a very powerful rally. It's going to be a handful of what investors perceive as safe trading stocks or big name capitalization.

Alvin Teng

As in the previous session, there were a handful of star stocks that were not strong enough to ignite an across-the-board advance.

William Empson

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

Joseph Rice

They?re not going to be able to rely on any other support. These are self-contained operations.

Philip Kerr

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

Daniel Johns

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on,

Sam Harris

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

Thomas Keller

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Martin O'Neill

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Ridley Scott

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Sammy Mejia

I got fouled, but you can't rely on the referees to give you the game.

James A. Michener

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

David Ricardo

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

Cynthia Kadohata

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

Stephen Leacock

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

Martin Luther

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Gwendolyn Brooks

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Carolyn Kizer

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

John Bunyan

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

John Bunyan

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

Joe Bob Briggs

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.