Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Benjamin

Past successes are bridges that lead us to our next victory.

Chris Norman

Our offensive line did a good job and we had Mitch Bridges back this week. I also thought our defensive front seven did the job. Our linebackers played a lot better this week than they did in the second half and were able to hold a good running back like (Darryl) Vereen down (to 49 yards).

Allison Hine

Our youth group at the high school level (Pilgrim Fellowship) went over (to Israel and Palestine). With Bridges of Hope, we bring kids from Palestine over here.

Theo Staub

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Chris Sanders

Right up here at the top of this bridge is where the guy flagged me down.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Patrick McMahon

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Osama Hamdy

Our research shows that people may have a better outcome losing weight if they increase their intake of lean protein.

Ralf Berchtold

Our strategy is to have more and more people striking on the street each day to increase the pressure on the employers.

Sandra Gordon

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Nicholas Garganas

Risks that could strengthen inflationary pressures have increased after the interest-rate increase in December.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Kelvin Goertzen

We never really see an increase in the number of officers because of the recruitment issue.

Will Power

I think they're trying to strike the right balance. They're trying to increase market penetration and reduce churn by bundling (broadband) with traditional local voice and long distance.

Kenneth Langone

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

Aaron Parchem

We've trained and trained and trained, preparing for this opportunity to do something special. But never in a million years did I think I was going to be sitting up here in this situation. It's just an unbelievable feeling.

Kevin Connolly

James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.

Eric Christensen

The $2.3 million is not even a token sum. It's ridiculous.

Larry Anderson

I think the $12 million is just way out of the way,

Andrew Grove

I will take any kind of developments so long as those tens of tens of millions become twice as many.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Mary Schmidt

There are so many millions of people you can't otherwise reach.

Kelly Osbourne

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Steve Alic

In the past, aberrations have occurred to make it one week. It will be two weeks exclusively every year. Two weeks is natural.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

David DeJesus

I got in there way before he tagged me.

Andrew Zarnett

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Charles Adams

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

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Hans Trousil

We have been working to keep the tax levy down.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.