Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Vaile

France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,

Andrew Davis

Only now, on the brink of financial gamble for the power output, do we suddenly need dry cask storage.

Mary Roach

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

Steve Rucchin

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

Nile Rodgers

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Bre Pettis

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

CeeLo Green

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

Richard Mourdock

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.

Lord Byron

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

Lleyton Hewitt

Life hasn't changed a whole heap ? it's obviously going to change,

Joe Kalb

Luckily I got a step and luckily it rattled down, My mind changed about three times while it was rolling around the rim.

Larry Hagman

LSD was such a profound experience in my life that it changed my pattern of life and my way of thinking and I could not exclude it.

Scott Collie

(Making more free throws) would have changed the complexion of the game. Hopefully we can learn some lessons from this game that will help us down the road when we get to league play.

John Timoney

Life has changed post-September 11, ... It's something we'll have to get used to, but as much as possible, as much as humanly possible, people should resume normal activities.

Bob McCoy

Las Vegas has changed the playing field for the High Point market, including for Triad hotels." ()

Nick Barnett

Last year we thought we had an identity. We thought we had something going and we changed it, and we didn't get that rhythm going of what we wanted to be. This year I think we're going to establish that and go out there and just play football and be ourselves.

John Eccles

Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.

Richard Armitage

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

John Fund

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

Janna Levin

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

Bill Evans

Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.

Craig Pennington

If we get a normal winter, we'll probably have enough inventories, but if we get a very harsh winter, inventories could collapse to unseen levels. The oil market would be very jittery with any supply disruptions.

Paul Allison

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

Alan Stern

Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.

Derek Johnson

She collapsed at school and was taken to the hospital, ... That's how we found out she had asthma. It hit us by surprise.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't expect a settlement, and I don't expect a collapse of discussions.

Werner Herzog

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Joel Stoneton

We're not big and strong, but we're a quick, fast team. We're not going to overpower you, but we can run around you to the outside. We're just going to spread the field and see what happens.

Dave Brogioli

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

Robert Brown

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Scott Runkel

Lee is a powerful kid. He's off to a pretty fast start and hopefully he'll stay hot.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Amanda Palmer

Sean and Paul have been following the band's growth for the past two years and have a real understanding of what we're trying to capture. The record is going to be fast and furious, immediate and raw.

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Jim Tressel

Mike is strong as a bull, and a surprisingly fast guy. And he's one of those players whose motor only has one speed - all out. He plays so hard that he gives the other team all kinds of problems.