Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

The past few days have been painful for everyone involved. But that is nothing compared to any offense that may have been caused to disabled people in our community and in our country.

Thomas Sowell

The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

Jason Ellis

The recent outages have caused my company to start looking for alternative CRM solutions unless Salesforce.com is able to stabilize their systems, and fast.

We will offer restaurants and food service so strong people will come here for the dining experience as much as the racing. By mid-meet we should be hitting on all cylinders, which is where we would have been on opening day if not for the delays caused by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.

We have a clear example here that earmarks caused harm. Because we siphoned off funds to go to parochial projects, we have put people in harm's way and exposed them to greater risk. Congress needs to put its house in order and target their funding to where there's the greatest need,

Those were a couple of things that really caused us the most heartburn.

This was a very big surprise to us on Sunday. It is very humbling. We couldn't be more sorry for the total stress this has caused students and admissions officers, and families.

This was a very big and complex project, and we were all delighted that going into production was very smooth and caused no issues.

Jeffrey Archer

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

There is a combo of factors. Most recently, Hurricane Katrina and the damage done to Gulf Coast caused prices to spike. But even prior to Katrina, prices were already higher than last year. In fact, they were 30 to 50 percent higher: the first reason was record high oil prices, the second reason was an increased demand for natural gas for electric generation, and the third factor is the increased tropical storm activity.

Ron Zook

We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.

Too many organizations caused certain inconveniences to the management. The integration will help Microsoft cut costs and, more importantly, increase synergy.

Frank Church

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Luigi Pirandello

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Otto Loewi

In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

Jane Goodall

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Geoff Mulgan

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.

We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what,

James Hall

We are committed and intend to find out what caused this accident.

We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a sense that policy has been frozen by indecision.

We would have made these changes anyway, but Cabela's caused us to push up the timeline.

We had a huge uptake in construction costs and a few other things that caused some problems.

James Morgan

Uncertainty in the economy is dampening the ramp in our industry and caused our orders to be lower than expected.

Kevin R. Stone

Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.

For that pipe itself, I don't think it was caused by age. It was caused more because the pipe actually settled.

Mark Potok

I don't mean to diminish their activities. They've caused huge property damage and there is very little question they will kill someone these days.

Columbus is known for their aggressiveness on their press. Our girls weren't expecting it to be that aggressive. It caused us some problems early on.

I am mortified that what I said caused offense and am especially saddened that I created pain for anyone.

He pulled the trigger, as far as I am concerned. It was caused by that pervert.

Our snow melting all at once, combined with rain, combined with moist conditions last fall, has caused the rivers to come up quickly.