Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cofer Black

We have 18 more total events, five more significant events and 13 more nonsignificant events than originally reported. These new figures are accompanied by a dramatic increase in the numbers of casualties originally calculated.

Wayne Besen

The reason these things exist is because Focus on the Family and these other groups read the polls, and they know that when people think that homosexuality is a casual choice, they're going to be antigay, and they're going to support antigay laws.

John Morrison

But reinsurance is treated differently than primary insurance under state insurance codes, and that's where people could see their rates go up for all lines of casualty insurance in the long term, whether its related to disaster or not.

Barry Humphries

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

This will give us a chance to get the family together and enjoy the lake. They're meant for social enjoyment, casual fun.

This was a major initiative of the company, the casual line. It's now a separate division of the company.

Maxine Waters

The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an election simply because we don't like him or his policies. The constitution is on trial, and we hope that we will uphold the constitution and the civil rights of everybody involved.

this war will come to a speedy conclusion to keep the number of victims and casualties as low as possible.

Virginia Woolf

What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

What I want to impress upon the court is that this is not casual drinking, ... This is conscious criminal conduct.

There has to be some real indication that we're moving the troops out. There has to be an indication that casualties are tapering off.

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

We will follow federal guidelines on calculating casualty loss.

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me/ No casual mistress, but a wife.

The narrow tie has become the tie of choice. Ties haven't really changed in width for the last 10 years or so. Ties kind of went out with the casual Fridays. Now you're starting to see younger guys wearing ties, but they want something different.

Defensively, they took us out of what we wanted to do. Plain and simple, they were the better team. If you were watching the game tonight as a casual observer, they were a better team than us and they proved it three times this year. We didn't deserve to win this game.

Detroit, when it comes to the quick casual restaurant business, has done extremely well. When you look at the volume compared to other cities, Detroit is always on the top tier. You have a very strong workforce that tends to eat out every day.

I've always loved Helena Christensen's style because she looks casual and comfortable, while being chic and cool.

Takeo Spikes

I've reminded J.P. in casual conversations that he doesn't have to do it all, ... I told him, 'Hey, a lot of quarterbacks would love to have the situation you have, so don't put too much pressure on yourself. Rely on us and just go out there and do what you have to do.'

As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up,

There's a huge opportunity for Washington companies, but you can't just sit back casually and think it's going to come to you.

This may be a watershed moment. I don't think they are casually questioning him in this case.

Ike Skelton

As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are taking on volunteers who can stand the rigors, ... Some of the volunteers are sleeping on the floor. They don't want people to go down there and become casualties themselves. The people who aren't able to withstand those difficulties are probably better suited to stay here and help out.

Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.

Even after absorbing higher than normal catastrophe losses during the quarter, we were able to post an exceptional 91.2 percent property and casualty combined ratio. This compares to a combined ratio of 89 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004.

Peter Arnett

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

Pat Metheny

I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

Kara Swisher

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

Maulik Pancholy

I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.

Ville Valo

I've never had casual sex, I have always dated the girls I've done pyshical things with. I like knowing the person and them knowing me.

Kweisi Mfume

To the casual onlooker, that said, 'Wait a minute, there really is a race here. There is something more here than what we've been hearing, which is: 'He can't win. He can't win.

Jim Gerlach

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.