Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Johanns

We want to send a signal as to what the farm bill will be so that producers can make decisions.

Chris Chocola

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chirlane McCray

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

Michael McKinney

The person I'd feel sorry for would be the first man, ... I'm not sure Bill could handle that.

Nathan Myhrvold

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Hal Halpin

We've already committed to doing the things this bill is trying to require us to do,

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Peter Power

We're not going to say anything tonight, under no circumstances.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Rick Perlstein

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Sharon Stone

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

William Arbaugh

This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,

Bill Maris

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Dennis Alford

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Kenny Troutt

I go to the farm generally every other week, but I'm on the phone with them every day, and I watch every race on TV. Not a day goes by when I'm not working on that.

Dan Glickman

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,

Dutch Proverb

What a farmer does not know, he won't eat.

Keith Horne

We farm here, but we also live here. We understand the stakes.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Tim Johnson

This proposal is ill-advised and ill-conceived and obviously occurred with little consultation within the farming community,

Dave Gilmour

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Ben Quiles

She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Jason Isringhausen

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn't look like it totally, but to me, they are.

Brad Hennessey

A win is always satisfying, and my mechanics were better in L.A., but I made pitches when I had to -- and I just wish I had one pitch back. What are you going to do?

Scott Carson

they are also some of the best-paid mechanics in the world.

Chris Bootcheck

I'm at the point now where I'm pitching in sequences; I'm pitching in sequences of two and sequences of three. It is not about my mechanics and it is not about my stuff. It is about competing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Tracy Hickman

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Rob Gordon

Since we've been at Eustis, I don't think we've played in a more physical game.

Eric Coleman

Most physical team we'll play all year. In any conference.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Chris Forster

We have to play strong, you have to give it back. We're not used to being physically pushed around and you have to push back. In the state tournament, when you get pushed you have to push back.