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arrogance modesty false-modesty
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. David Mitchell
arrogance british tricks
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Catherine Drinker Bowen
arrogance concern property rights
Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil. Gordon Hinckley
arrogance want kind
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. Edgar Friedenberg
arrogance computer mets
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. Alan Kay
arrogance behavior refrain
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. Chen Shui-bian
arrogance covering excuse
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. Bob Lewis
arrogance firsts claims
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. Benoit Mandelbrot
arrogance blair breath bring fresh government happened keen met open power purposeful reform tony
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism. Rory Bremner
assistance call contact payment
We want them to call us, so payment arrangements can be made, so they can be put in contact with any assistance that's available. Allan Urlis
assistance decision economic front increases korea north somewhat
The possibility of North Korea making a (positive) decision increases somewhat if economic assistance is dangled in front of their eyes.
assistance basically clothes glad homes people sure whatever
The people who have been in this devastation don't have anything. They don't have their homes anymore. They don't have any of their belongings. They basically got away with the clothes on their back and little else so I'm sure whatever assistance they can get they're very glad for.
assistance draw emergency execute federal fema grant local managing office people plans response reviewing state taking
The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans. Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshalling the assets. Paul Anderson
assistance draw emergency execute federal fema grant local managing office people plans response reviewing state taking
The people who draw up the plans should be able to execute the plans, ... Now we have one office taking in grant applications, reviewing emergency plans by state and local governments and determining where federal assistance should go, yet FEMA is tasked with managing the response and marshaling the assets.
assistance economic fair help personnel prepared provide
We are prepared to provide help in any way we can to those Fair Grounds personnel who need economic assistance and housing. Bryan Brown
assistance balance countries existing experience financial programs provide providing support
We are prepared, as in the past, to provide financial support by augmenting existing programs or by providing new financial assistance to countries that experience drought-related balance of payments needs. Rodrigo Rato
assistance begun change clearest lasting north people regime repressed talk
We've already begun to talk about regime change in North Korea. It is the clearest way for us to come to the assistance of people who are being repressed and it is the only way of getting lasting non-proliferation results.
assistance electricity garner general people start work
Where is General Garner now? ... The people need assistance here in Nasiriya. Why are they not here? Why don't they work to rehabilitate the electricity and water? Why don't they start working on the curriculum? Why are they in Kuwait?
budget hearings thanks
We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,
budget cannot employees helping package percent
We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute. Bob Woodruff
budget budgets feather increase reserves tight
(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.
budgetary grasp run
We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business. Eric Hyman
budgetary experience fulfilling people terms
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. Michael Shermer
budgets certainly comedies low
Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards. Norman Wisdom
budget controls
We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.
budget examined four increase issues kept last percent realized taxes ways
When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise. Robert Morgan
budgets companies dedicated double fewer large regardless smaller
What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.
debt quitting deeper
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. Charles Caleb Colton
debt completion
A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. David Graeber
debt way faults
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
debt way violence
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.
debt aversion
I've always had an aversion to debt. Brunello Cucinelli
debt cards things-to-do
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again. Camilo Jose Cela
debt increase
When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return,
debts means pay people required walk wealthy
Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.
debt ensure government kept levels staggering within
We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,
foreign good investment perception
The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.
foreign missiles producing technology
We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.
foreign image lives move national nearly ourselves outside
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country. Kate Grenville
foreign great hand interests pacific perhaps someday whose
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal
foreign good indonesia investors preventing
We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
foreign limited
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. Wang Jianlin
foreign means media mentioned military political since war
Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures. Slobodan Milosevic
foreign people province running students trend visitors
She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.
foreign note received seemed strange today ukrainian
We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.
landscape paint worn
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. David Hockney
landscape thrill enjoyment
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
lands lost slow though town turning
We feel as though the town is at a turning point. If we don't slow things down now, these lands could be lost forever.
lands national ruining
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent. Ric Keller
landscape force visuals
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. Bridget Riley
landscape firsts energy
Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music Brian Setzer
landscape portraits owners
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. Aldo Leopold
lands mortals poor reasoning wrong
Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions George Eliot
landscape life-is enriching
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching. Daniel Day-Lewis
lest stands wander
Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. William Hazlitt
lest lives supposed
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. Tammy Faye Bakker
lest substance
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
lestat vampire-lestat changes-over-time
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. Anne Rice
public-trust
I have never, not once, violated my public trust.
public
Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....
publicity enough good-enough
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. David Duchovny
publicity
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. Carl Andre
public-opinion found ministers
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
public
When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. Robert Reich
public
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
public
My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up. Sharon Stone
publicity obituary
There's no bad publicity except an obituary. Brendan Behan
rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.
rome cities paris
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. C. Wright Mills
romeo-and-juliet-play
Take it in what sense thou wilt. William Shakespeare
rome london pavement
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci
rome europe curiosity
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Edward Gibbon
rome history evil
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.
rome years cities
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.
rome america empires
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. Eddie Izzard
rome history people
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.