Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Edwards

We know what Jon is capable of. What we were trying to do is take some of the burden off his shoulders.

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Ayn Rand

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

Heather Logan

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in Canada. However, we need to do more to make the most of this opportunity, which has the potential to significantly reduce the cancer burden in this country.

Stephan Pastis

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

The Talmud

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Joe Kalinowski

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

Jerry Ray

He (James Earl Ray) said he wouldn't confess to anything he didn't do,

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

Joseph Towle

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Lauren Kellin

It all starts with Amy. She doesn't get any credit. She makes all the big saves and makes us look good.

Lauri Kemper

What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.

Richard Sommer

I think it's really important to save a little as a benchmark.

Kevin Klette

He made some big saves for us when it counted. He's been doing that all year for us.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.