Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Price

I have expressed my regrets to the City. We made some mistakes out here and had some erosion problems.

Paul Nolte

I don't expect to see a sharp movement in stocks -- it will be a gradual erosion over time.

Richard Holloway

There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.

Robert Smithson

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Twyla Tharp

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

Wendell Berry

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

Peter Doyle

All those names on that list actually reflect kind of a margin of safety where even if the investment pieces don't pan out, you're likely to do well or not sustain a permanent erosion of capital. So that's what we've been focusing on,

Ethan Harris

It's not a question of a sudden explosion in prices. It's more an erosion of the low-inflation psychology.

Alistair Graham

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Paula Gonzalez

He just had a longtime want to be in the military.

Graham Hawkes

I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Shakira

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

Matt Carter

He said it's longer than what they say it is.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

Andrew Kohut

His strong points are no longer his strong points.

Hank Fishkind

I think it's going to be longer than that. In Florida, we're going to see some slowing of population growth, so that will magnify the impact.

Steve Hansen

I think we're getting closer. It takes a little longer than all the parties expected. We're still looking at downtown. Penney's is our first priority.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Paul Cooper

I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Samuel Wilson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.