Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Bill Ackman

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

We're making a small, inexpensive, and robust device to assess the same things, anywhere. It could work in the field, at the mall, in the parking lot, and at home.

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

What we're seeing here is a market that's just waiting to assess economic data later in the week and, of course, moving into the earnings season.

We would really need for the DOD to quantify the demand to assess whether prices for wood could rise in the market as a result. I don't think the consumer has something to worry about right now.

What homeowners often don't know or realize is that this process is a subjective one. Essentially, your assessment is one person's opinion about the value of your house.

We're still in the checking-it-out stage. We want to get through a scrimmage, maybe a game or two and then assess it. ... It's too early. You can't make any definitive judgments.

Ted White

Unless investors can see where compensation committees are setting those hurdles, it's hard for us to assess the quality of those plans.

Working with the Gulf States, NOAA will continue efforts to assess fishing industry damage and long-term impacts to the marine environment,

Working this way suited Turin. We'll assess the situation in Beijing later.

With the high prices of gas and energy in general, it is becoming more important for families and businesses to save money where they can. A home energy audit is the first step to assess your home's energy diet and to evaluate what measures can be made to make your home more energy efficient. An audit will show you problems that, when corrected, save significant amounts of money over time.

With the probable cases, we've received enough information to classify them by symptoms as mumps, but we don't have lab confirmation. The suspect case is being tested, but we don't have lab confirmation or enough information to assess the symptoms.

Al Groh

A lot of the calls that control the blocking scheme are made by the center upon the assessment of the defense,

They need to hold an investigation into what's happened because it's unacceptable. We can't have players being named in a confidential environment. We need to see what comes out of the investigation and assess our options as to where we'll go with this as a group. It needs to be fixed. We entrusted people to do the right thing and that has been breached.

This expansion is the result of a carefully planned process to assess the need and resources available in the surrounding area. No other organization is providing the variety and depth of supportive care that the professionals at Cancer Services do.

Bob Graham

It's not surprising that there is a statement that bin Laden is still alive. That's the best assessment of U.S. intelligence.

Ben Foster

Then in two years' time we'll assess the situation and, if I've progressed, he'll give me a chance. Edwin has got a two-year contract so that's the plan.

It's too early to assess where we are in the turnaround. Revenue is down and we want to see them rise at some point.

It's the micro management, the machinations up and down of interest rates, that has really gotten us to the point where we are now, rather than the market playing out at its own natural cycle. So the Fed today, I believe, will take a look back at the landscape, assess what they've done, and probably use August to evaluate whether or not to come back in and raise rates.

There will be innumerable township roads that we can't make an assessment on.

There will be a mad rush to get out there (to assess the damage).

William Ramsay

There needs to be a better assessment of what the vulnerabilities are and what constitutes vulnerability.

Everett Dirksen

It is rather tragic, as I look back upon legislative history for the past 20 years, that there has not been more appraisal, that there has not been more careful assessment of the things which we have set in motion in the legislative branch. That is one particular reason why I think there ought to be an automatic time limit.