Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Defensor

The president will sign a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Jeff Southard

We're not going to be able to get away with throwing $200 million or $300 million at this and declaring victory and moving on.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Anthony Carmona

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Ian Smith

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Graeme Smith

We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.

Ethan Harris

For the Fed to hike rates now would be the equivalent of a doctor prematurely declaring a patient at full health, discharging them from the hospital and then forcing them to run a mile.

Tom Gallagher

Often declaring losses on the prior year's return can lead to a larger deduction.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Joe Wilcox

Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.

Rease Watson

We have one of the larger parts to cover.

Rebecca Mangieri

You'll always want to find an actor in the larger role first.

Cassandra Dunn

The problem was much larger than we expected.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Michelle Finch

We know that the losses are in the millions.

Kyle Wilson

We've had losses this year where we've had to bounced back from, and we've done it each time.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Pat Risley

We're 10-6, but you really have to look at our losses. All of the losses go right down the poll.

Dan Moser

You know what, if I saw a team with six losses I'd probably think we should go in and spank them.

Lori Miller

Our family's outcome is better than the increasingly-heart-breaking losses experienced by many families.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Jerry Graybeal

It's not always how many wins and losses you have at the end of the season, it's how you got to that point.

Steve Tanner

They have trouble (offensively), too. Their losses have been similar to ours.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Alan Lakein

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.