Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Durbin

may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?

E. P. Thompson

Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he's competent and he's my friend.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Frank Middleton

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Jesse Smith

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

Nelson Mandela

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Nico Rosberg

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are right now going through the process, and it is -- as you know, it's always very important that we appoint the right person and the most competent person, the person that really is skilled and has the experience,

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Richard P. Feynman

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Samuel Coleridge

Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it

Mufi Hannemann

One of the things we discovered is that we may have to do this periodically.

Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time

Bertrand Russel

One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics

K. Chesterton

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Dave Barry

one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.

Robert Twilley

New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.

Gene Edwards

If a hurricane starts barreling down on one of our refiners, we have procedures in place, ... and if it looks like we will have a big power failure, we will shut down the refineries.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

Michael Olivier

Unless you're shooting a film called Hurricane , you won't want to come to New Orleans, but we have 54 other parishes.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Kevin Anderson

Mr. Benitez has led a law-abiding life not even a traffic ticket. Nothing.

Hunter S. Thompson

McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime.

Natalie Cole

My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Malcolm Speed

We have led the world in terms of the processes we have put in place.

Vitruvius

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

Jeffery Smith

Now, there's not a question about it. They know that to participate at Woodward, you have to have a helmet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

Francis Gaskins

If they're profitable, they could go public. The question is, if they want to.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Wayne Tartline

(Mayo) got done wrong in a whole lot of ways.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

Sasha Adams

She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ed White

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike Rowe

If they are, they're in the wrong business.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

Richard Carey

was in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Anthony Schlegel

We've done it for a while. We're just going to keep it rolling. There's nothing wrong with that -- just have a little fun.