Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Ivanov

A scrupulous investigation into the accident has been conducted within a month's time, as was promised. It was established that outrageous violation of the instructions by senior officials of the Russian Pacific Fleet was the main cause of wrong 'swimming and diving rounds'

James Hall

The bottom line is it took the ValuJet accident for that to happen.

Jason Varitek

At some point, he will hit a bump in the road, but he is very well equipped to bounce back if that situation arises. He'll be fine. It's not by accident he's having success.

James Longstreet

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

Cesar Milstein

Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.

Ben Hatfield

A thorough investigation of the cause and circumstances of this terrible accident will be undertaken by federal and state mine regulatory officials.

Jim Ford

Randy (the Ford's other son) is still healing from his accident earlier this year (he was struck by a sprint car in July, suffering a broken leg). With Doug's condition, racing just isn't that important right now. We appreciate the prayers and encouragement we have received from the racing community, but our family needs to be together right now. I hope everyone understands.

William Costopoulos

Rather, the evidence strongly suggests that this was a tragic accident involving a boyfriend and girlfriend who were celebrating their engagement.

Helaine Klasky

Professor Kennedy was involved in a minor car accident where a woman leaving her car was slightly injured. As routine, the police arrived at the scene and took Prof. Kennedy into the station for further questioning and tests Professor Kennedy is deeply upset that any injury may have been caused by the accident.

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing, ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Michael Gibson

As a direct result of his lack of leadership in this regard, fine revenues were down approximately 20 percent this last fiscal year, which causes a financial hardship on the city and our citizens, not to mention a safety hazard for his failure to properly enforce our traffic laws,

Christine Albertus

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Glenn Kroll

The situation was what it was. It didn't cause me to stop being friends with him.

Phil Nuytten

We should be there and diving . . . Saturday morning.

Ed Schroeder

In the long haul, you are looking at the rebirth of one of the historically successful industries of Pensacola . . . the fishing and diving industry.

Aaron Paul

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

Bill Baker

We're pumped. Max didn't make the top 20 his sophomore year, and last year he was 17th by one point. The state diving judges are pretty tough to impress.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Christopher Hitchens

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

William Cowper

How fleet is a glance of the mind!

Willie Walsh

We're in the fortunate position that Rod Eddington left the fleet in good shape. It's unlikely we will do anything in the short-term.

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

S. Walker

We have a fleet of earthmoving and related equipment.

Paul Dick

We're trying to think through all the ramifications of what it would take to deploy a fleet of these.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Harper

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Nancy Corona

Every refuge has a reason for being. One of the main reasons this refuge was established was for the migratory birds.

Bob Norris

We just don't have that many earthquakes under the main part of Portland.

Mike Bibby

We got stops when we needed to and that's the main thing. Our stops turned into transition points.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Tom Robbins

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Andy Grove

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Alistair Cooke

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Andrea Jung

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Alexander Lebedev

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Alexa Von Tobel

Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

Alex Trebek

People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...

Alex Trebek

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

E. O. Wilson

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.