Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

Mary Schiavo

There is no other way to force the FAA to adequately do its job of overseeing the carriers of this country and enforcing aviation safety.

Jim Harrison

Until the court has determined that they conducted an adequate search for my clients' documents, I think the document destruction should cease.

Max Heindel

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Gary Ackerman

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

We believe we have the necessary depth to adequately cover for both Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee,

Spencer Abraham

World energy supplies are more than adequate to compensate for any disruption, ... The response by OPEC and major producers like Saudi Arabia, and if needed, our large strategic stockpiles, will ensure that our economy will have the ample supply of energy it needs.

Chuck Martin

We're finding this stuff out on the fly as well. But we'd do everything within our power to make sure the shoppers could still get downtown. There's more than adequate parking in other areas.

With the resources we have in this day and age we still have people in this state without adequate running water.

About 15% to 20% of patients have emotional or psychological needs that have not been adequately dealt with. We have been so focused on disease treatment that those important elements have traditionally been given lower priority.

Cynthia McKinney

A common sense alternative is to protect America's national forests from commercial logging by reinvesting the logging subsidies into economically viable programs, ... Rather then spending taxpayer dollars to degrade our national heritage, we should invest in programs for ecological restoration, adequate school funding, alternative fiber research, vocational training, and community economic development.

Paul Parker

It's just part of our effort to continue providing adequate health benefits without raising the cost to our employees,

Michael W. Smith

It's just going to take so much money to have an adequate retirement.

Kathleen Blanco

It's (federal response) going to be more adequate as we go on, ... I do not feel partisan difference.

Although we continue to see attractive long-term growth potential in the shares, we feel that this is now more adequately valued at the current price.

A lot of people think that if someone has a chronic bad-breath problem, they don't take care of their teeth, ... They assume bad odor is associated with lack of adequate dental health. But that's not necessarily true. Many if not most people who have chronic halitosis have immaculate care. They've been afflicted for so long and spent so much time trying to find a cure.

They have adequate quickness on the perimeter. They have good size and quickness on the inside.

They don't feel that they're adequately dressed or clean or they don't understand the system.

This case is a stern reminder that firms must have adequate procedures to supervise and control transfers of assets from customer accounts. It goes to the heart of customers' expectations that their money is safe.

This agency had to be sued in order to issue anything. Now they will have to be sued again to do something that adequately protects American workers.

Mark Everett

This addresses the adequate shelter and shade for the animals. No animal shall be neglected.

They should calculate what their rate would be if adjusted in today's market and compare that with today's fixed-rate market and assess their personal situation. Do they have adequate funds to reduce or pay off their mortgage at the end of the adjustment period?

They were ineffective. It's just not an adequate explanation.

This information is not being adequately disseminated to pregnant women. If the food pyramid can't get it right, how can ordinary Americans?

Fred Upton

This hard date will also give consumers adequate notice and time to get ready for the transition, ... This legislation will provide a robust digital-to-analog converter box assistance program.

They (the players) put the show on and they should be well paid, but the league needs to adequately compensate our wages bill.