Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Bob McKenzie

Just the traffic volumes. It's something our bridge inspectors are taking a look at.

William J. Clinton

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

William J. Clinton

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

Warren Buffett

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

Theo Staub

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Chris Sanders

Right up here at the top of this bridge is where the guy flagged me down.

Welsh Proverb

If you would get ahead, be a bridge

John Mayer

I support building a bridge large enough to handle the growth that has occurred and the growth that will occur in the future.

Jim Nicholson

The people that are over in the combat theaters are about half from the Reserve components,

Raul Ramirez

There is no way law enforcement can combat this problem without the help of the public, ... There are not enough police officers.

Bruce Perry

It's an honor that should be given to all veterans, regardless of service or combat status.

Steve Price

It was teeming with a diversity of life, with mussels, tubeworms, fish and crabs. Struggles for survival were playing out before our eyes. The incredible multitude of crabs in combat with each other for existence is an image I will never forget.

Pete Hegseth

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

Pete Hegseth

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

Doug Schreiber

Through our first five games, we have seen four or five possible All-Americans. Our defense has been playing OK, but we need to tighten up some things so we can combat the other team's pitching.

Jayanti Owens

Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools to help students enact policies and programs and found student organizations that combat systems of inequality in higher education.

Robin Wright

I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.

Michael Lange

I would welcome the governor going door-to-door with me and discussing the issues of the next session.

Sean Rooney

We had been speaking about a 51 percent to 49 percent split, but we're open to discussing any percentage,

Mark Hamilton

We were discussing what to do when somebody suggested we become the Red Barrows,

Ross Brawn

As to my role in the future, we are discussing that at the moment. I'm very happy at Ferrari, very pleased with the way things are and would very much like to be involved with Ferrari in the future.

Didier Deschamps

I don't think this is an important question right now. The final is my objective for the time being. I'm not discussing that.

Simon Crisford

We'll see how he is over the next week or so before discussing plans. But if he is to run in the Kentucky Derby, he will go straight there without a prep race.

Barton Gellman

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

Rosamunde Pilcher

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Mike Ertel

We've been discussing the viability of a pool for four months.

James Schamus

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

David Kirk

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Janelle Hironimus

None of the attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Ira Sorkin

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Ilene Chaiken

Ours is probably in the top tier of shows that have such an engaged fan base. Fans really want to be involved and to provide feedback about what should happen with these characters, and this is a great way to interact with our audience.

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Dave Penry

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Robert Shapiro

Race is not, and will not be an issue in this case.

Sara Sheridan

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

Werner Herzog

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Donna Newman

It's not a confidential attorney-client meeting. It's a meeting to wave at your client.

Olusegun Obasanjo

strive at this meeting to come out with solutions.

Fred Phillips

It shows what we are doing is working. We are meeting our goals, which is very exciting.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Hayley Wickenheiser

It's our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and how we look as well.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Joey Ramone

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

P. D. James

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.