Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lind

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

Peter Beattie

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,

Zhang Mao

We've appointed ombudsmen to check implementation of these measures in various hospitals.

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

Leonie Brinkema

Unfortunately, it is now obvious that no attorney appointed by the court will satisfy the defendant,

Terry Teachout

Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Bible Bible

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Scott Alberts

Since everyone in ex-com was appointed by the president, you feel more comfortable telling them to take over their duties.

Jeff Emerson

She (Gardner) is very well qualified for this position and Governor Riley thinks she would be an excellent choice; that's why he appointed her.

Salam Fayyad

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

Bertie Ahern

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

Fidel Ramos

The process of not giving it to the Cabinet for review means that that whole thing was pre-cooked.

Tom Lehrer

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Brian Mulroney

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Brian Selznick

Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.

Brian Selznick

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Elaine Sciolino

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

Earl Butz

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

David Briggs

There are some gradual signs that the worst is over for this particular downdraft, ... We're optimistic that we can get a little turnaround by the end of the week. But it's hard to point to any one real catalyst that can turn things around.

Jim Volk

Unless there's some catalyst for the shorts to start scampering there's no reason for markets to go higher.

Jim Volk

We're just in a holding pattern. I don't see any catalyst on the scene at this point to get stocks going.

Christopher Johnson

We're seeing the idea that technology is starting to get back in the driver's seat. And tech is a catalyst that you need for the market to rally.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Francois Trahan

Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.

Susan Walvius

She may be the fastest guard in the country. She certainly was the catalyst for her team.

Art Hogan

We've sort of run into resistance, we need a significant catalyst to move us further and it's just not there.

Elizabeth Dole

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

Richard Riordan

Where I've been -- I think, a good leader -- is by saying I've got a great chief of police, I'm going to back this chief, I'm not going get out there in public and emasculate him,

Marguerite Gardiner

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Andrew Forman

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

Kariya Munda

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

Evan Bayh

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Ted Cruz

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

Red Cloud

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Zhang Qiyue

Since the two chief weapons inspectors say they need more time for the weapons inspections, I think that's reasonable,

Reuben Mark

Since he will soon be chief executive, he should take all of the vacations he can prior to that because there will be precious little time then.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Andy Gray

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

Marcia Carroll

I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.

Dan Brown

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Sukhjinder Singh

He (didn't) really even have one gray hair in his head. I look older than him.

Gianni Versace

For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

Ronald Turner

There are a lot of gray areas. It doesn't really say in the statutes just how you can do it.

Carol Riley

Up until 10 years ago, the reason people went to their reunions was to find out what happened to everybody. You can do that without ever having to leave your home or show your gray hair.

Jim Hunter

To be perfectly honest, absolutely. That's one thing about our sport: No matter what the rules are, if there's any gray anywhere, somebody is going to find a way to use it to their advantage.

D.J. Strawberry

Justin Gray is just a phenomenal player. We've watched so much film on him, but it's nothing like watching him in person. He hits unbelievable shots. He wouldn't go away tonight, and kept his team in it until the end.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Bob Harper

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Irfan Pathan

The pitch had a lot of moisture on it. There was a lot of movement off the wicket, more than there was in the air.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Alexei Navalny

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

Susan B. Anthony

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Alexander Hamilton

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Abraham Verghese

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Albert Camus

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

David Foster Wallace

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Philip Reeker

The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

J. Stoltzfus

This is the secretary of transportation bill, that's what this is.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

Hillary Clinton

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.