Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Christie Brinkley

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

Lloyd Roberts

For this to happen between brothers that's just bending the limits of probability. It's a true tragedy.

Xiao Qiang

Who is not bending the rules, Chinese companies or otherwise? Everyone is doing it.

Tom Tremont

That's the real growth area. There's only so much more you can do in bending sheet metal.

Ernest Jones

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

Douglas Horton

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Nanette White

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.

Richard Carlson

Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

Dan Buckner

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

Clint Hurdle

The problem you have there, and it's from my learning experience, is when you have one and you're not really sure of him, you keep using him -- and he keeps not getting the job done. You think, 'This is the right move.' Unfortunately, I've fallen into that trap.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Antonio Porchia

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Lin Laing

So many of these people have fallen through the cracks.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

Jonathan Jackson

I wouldn't say it's fallen off any. We still have some great players on the field.

Troy Peter

We've found a way to persevere all year even when we've fallen behind. We've come back after trailing by a lot quite a few times. That seems to be our style.