Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allen

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Charlie Pierce

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Geoff Coulson

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Conrad Lautenbacher

We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving,

Jay Punia

We are getting ready for a major flood fight.

Brian McInerney

Last year we did have flooding in Cache Valley and Brigham City.

Michael Chertoff

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

Bob Riley

The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

Brooke Bingaman

Since it's just cresting over the flood stage, it's minor flooding that we're forecasting. You probably don't need a canoe, but it's probably wise to move vehicles out of the area.

Charles Dickens

Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

Ben Holmes

Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Grant Williamson

Until we get into the reporting season next month we're probably likely to see more of this thin trade.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Marc Lipsitch

If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductions are also likely.

John Davidson

I think in the near term, over this summer, the market is likely to stay in this range. There's a lot going on right now.

Michael Slater

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Dianne Feinstein

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

Dianne Feinstein

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Dan Boone

It can tend to snowball if you let it go.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.