Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

There is considerable interest in knowing when we diverged from our closest relative among animal species. This divergence time also has considerable importance because it is used to establish how fast genes mutate in humans and to date the historical spread of our species around the globe.

Consistency will hold the key in Melbourne. It is with this in mind that we have stuck to our current squad despite the fact that some of the other teams have strengthened their ranks will full internationals. We definitely have the skill, capability and confidence to be amongst the contenders for a medal the Games.

down to the final hurdle. But there is trouble amongst the decision makers in coming to a conclusion on where to take Bond next. ... There are still a number in the running.

(Culturally-diverse) children on the playground are exchanging expressions among themselves. And those changes have been integrated into the curriculum. There's a heightened interest (in) learning about other countries, especially when you have a child in the classroom who can talk to you about their homeland. It has brought challenges to the schools that they never had before.

Crude inventories went in the opposite direction to the consensus view among analysts. That's taken crude oil up a little higher.

Rollo May

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity.It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personalvalues.

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

And they haven't been from Mickey Mouse people... Lothar Matthaeus and Brian Kerr (ex-Ireland manager) have been among the overseas applications.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass / Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, / And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot / Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!

And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: / But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

Another interest rate hike in March is a 'done deal' among market participants and a pause is likely to come after that in May.

Martin Jacques

Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? / Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? / Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

Eminent domain is already among the most awesome powers of government, and we must do everything possible to protect the rights of private property ownership. Eminent domain should be defined as narrowly as possible so that it is restricted to truly public purposes.

Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with information on how to build energy-efficient homes will give them the tools to meet the needs of homeowners seeking to reduce energy costs.

Energy cooperation is a key area of economic cooperation among SCO member states. The working group on energy issue will compose of experts in related areas from the six member states.

Electricity doesn't travel very well. And there's no big power consumer among China's immediate neighbors that China can sell to.

Jacob Epstein

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

Gian Fulgoni

Even among people who shop online, more than 90 percent of their spending is done offline. So e-commerce has a lot of upside ahead.

Roy Brown

Ernst & Young truly understands that effectively managing global enterprise performance through learning is the key to competing in today's global markets. To be named among the very best of world-class training companies for the fifth year in a row is an honor. We congratulate Ernst & Young LLP and the many other organizations that have been recognized as training leaders.

Dan Rooney

Ernie's physical and relentless style of play helped the Steelers earn a reputation for being one of the NFL's toughest teams in the 1950s. He was undersized for his position, but his strength and power were among his greatest assets.

E. B. White

Even before the fire was out, neighbors began stopping by with clothing, food and other things. The firefighters even took up a collection among themselves to help get us started.

During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.

Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.

FIU is better known among the Latin American press than here in the U.S.,

David Mixner

Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.

David Lloyd

Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communication began.