Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Boswell

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Paul Johnston

We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.

Scott Bosse

The only time the dams are efficient at producing energy is during the spring runoff months. We can't simply flip a switch and release water that isn't there.

Kurt Schaefer

I think it's logical. Most of the federally-regulated dams tend to be fairly large dams that pose significant risk if there is a failure.

Glen Spain

At some point (the administration) is going to have to face up to the dams. The science leads to the dams and the law leads to the dams.

Maria Callas

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Eoin Colfer

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

John Doolittle

Dams are politically incorrect, even though levees are inherently unstable.

Scott Bosse

That means spilling water over the dams from spring until fall, 24 hours a day, as opposed to using turbines.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Agnes Repplier

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

Charles Taylor

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Charles Dudley Warner

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Charles Dickens

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

Charles Dickens

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Charles Stross

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

Brian Weiss

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Diane Warren

I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.

Diane Wakoski

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Sylvia Harriss

We usually give the restaurants a month to submit their checks.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Kirk Hinrich

We know how big this month is for us. This just isn't the way to start it off.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Ron Jirsa

We are going to have to get tougher if we are going to go on through this month and make anything happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!