Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

John Thomas

When Tim Parris and I joined we really started a new program to grow the management of ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals.

Mike Rogers

There are two command centers set up down there, ... Maybe three weeks down the road we may go in to relieve those there now.

Jamie Christensen

We know what's expected of us, and if we don't meet those requirements we know there will be consequences.

Mark Rosenker

The potential consequences of these fires can be catastrophic.

Mark Kennedy

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

Niki Tsongas

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

Victor Conte

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

David McGrew

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

Hubert Williams

Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Carlos Gutierrez

The protection of intellectual property is vital to our economic growth and global competitiveness, and it has major consequences in our ongoing effort to promote security and stability around the world,

Prince Charles

We shall never forget that if the Few had failed ... the consequences for this nation would have been unforgettable.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Edgar Cayce

If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

Demetri Martin

Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.

Bill Maher

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

Biz Stone

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Charles Kuralt

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Alan Lightman

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Bill Wagner

Louisville is notable for its accomplishments, but on the primary health-care side, we struggle to meet the needs.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Peter Fricker

Louise is going gangbusters and her recovery is getting better and better from day to day,

Blake Ahearn

Just from watching Louisville on TV, they seem like a physical team. We have to be tough and strong with the ball. Going on the road, that's a big emphasis.

Steve Cleveland

I think you've got to look at Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech immediately.

Matt Gifford

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Frank Beamer

I would like to see if we couldn't use him a little bit. We'll see if Louisville has a roster.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Jessalyn Gilsig

For myself, anyway, I think that recurring has been such a gift, because I've been able to work on a lot of shows that I've really had a lot of respect for before I went in, shows like 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Nip/Tuck,' for example.

Gary Speed

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Adam Beach

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

Tracy Chapman

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Lleyton Hewitt

I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Roy Nash

Our first win of the year could not have come at a better time. It was our first region game.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.