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abysmal acceptable almost assisting aviation barely billion compared developing federal grants improving job million minimal security spent
We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards. Kim Petersen
abysmal benefit consumers designed impossible numbers suggest understand
The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.
abysmal ahead encounter performance proved talk tough
Tough talk ahead of the encounter proved to be just that with the second-half performance abysmal in the extreme.
abysmal city extension granted management operator
No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.
abysmal adequately administer city confident corruption effects failure federal given history hurricane katrina local louisiana officials plan public relief respond state trusted
Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid. Dennis Hastert
abysmal again april came cope fall following freedom freshman grades guess kept lasted prep repeating strict time until wonderful
Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
abysmal animal animals cases cautious declare emphasize pleased situation violations welfare
We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.
abysmal ended ending epidemic folks odds plane rate success
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.
abysmal came team took
We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night. Pat Riley
bothering-you bother ifs
If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself. David Strickland
both discovery driven east finds fossil mary since understand
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past. Louise Leakey
both since
Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking. Lisa Cholodenko
both feed suffice
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically. Maajid Nawaz
both direct guess project serious
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. Mackenzie Astin
both country english federal issue kinds language laws learn official people practical side state
The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.
both checks dressing great knows reason rooms sit sound together worse
The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen? Ben Folds
both potential
The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.
both huge potential sales
The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.
clouds sky soul
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. David Mitchell
clouds giving atlas
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
clouds earth always-sunny
It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all. Caitlin Moran
clouds rocks order
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Caspar David Friedrich
clouds lines messengers
Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. William Shakespeare
clouds haunt hiding pain passing path poverty splendor stick truth
When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun. Sathya Baba
clouds covered earth outside pacific protective rocket soon streaming sunlight view wonderful
During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window. Helen Sharman
clouds saint triumph
Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train. Charles Wesley
clouds mountain world
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. Charles Lindbergh
far goal hope state three win
We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.
far funny gets main scenes terribly turn
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do. Louise Jameson
far few good people performance point relationship view
The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between. Russell Crowe
far score team
We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.
far iceberg tip
We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be. Flip Saunders
far happened playing playoff prepared throw thrown
We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.
far favor
We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.
far good spot tie
We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.
far figure finding good humming lyrics melodies music takes trying verses
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there. Dave Haywood
left
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left Chris Cooper
left room trusting
Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic. Lorraine Toussaint
left second tools
We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare. Ryan Holmes
left teams
When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.
left
For most of my life I wasn't on the left. Dennis Hopper
left work worried
I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again. Nathan Parsons
left
What's right is what's left when everything is wrong. Robin Williams
left man
What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.
left releasing stuff
We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies. Chuck D.
levels might fields
I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going. Alanis Morissette
levels harmony discord
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Alan Watts
levels teammate comfort
Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that. Chris Copeland
levels ordinary different
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life. Chogyam Trungpa
levels hierarchy size
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. David Deutsch
levels embarrassment lows
I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
levels gamer hardcore
I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level. Aisha Tyler
levels unexpected comedy
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form. Bo Burnham
levels boots approach
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. Billy Higgins
nixon nsa richard
We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. Louie Gohmert
nixon president primarily
President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people. Edward Brooke
nixon saw somebody
Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal. Philip Zimbardo
nixon officials
Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.
nixon presidents richard skilled
I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.
nixon opportunity visited
When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.
nixon
I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.
nixon relationship
Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship. John Chancellor
nixon realize responsibility white
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House. John F. Kennedy
office funeral coffins
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin. Charles Caleb Colton
office words-of-wisdom castles
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me. Charles Dickens
office president half
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking Alan Greenspan
office house looks
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office. David Morrissey
office library desks
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
office people individual
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.
office important affair
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. Dave Barry
office done casting
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
offices responsibility terms wives
There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.
passages knows
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Cesare Lombroso
passages
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
passage role smooth wherever
Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,
passage patience strength time
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. Jean Fontaine
passage patience strength time
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
passage
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
passages ifs keep-going
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. Joyce Johnson
passage-of-time things-to-do passages
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do Randy Pausch
presidents shape
Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. Thomas Friedman
presidents
Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.
presidents whenever
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets. Berry Gordy
presidents privileged sing
I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events. BeBe Winans
presidents remember sort telling
No, ... But I'll probably tell him at the Presidents Cup. He won't remember that, so me telling him that would be sort of anticlimactic. Stewart Cink
presidents time
Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time. Helen Thomas
presidents respected rewarded
Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics. Monica Crowley
presidents
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
presidents reluctant
Presidents are reluctant to take on a regent, Jim Rogers
scandal ruins
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life. Anton Chekhov
scandal machines hostage
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages Elias Canetti
scandal brutality moral
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Adam Gopnik
scandal
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
scandals
Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers! John Cusack
scandal my-favorite members
My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina. Darby Stanchfield
scandal corruption mccain
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now. Chuck Todd
scandal particular
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
scandal dies
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. Benjamin Rush
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
truman
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
truman welcome
Welcome to The Truman Show . There's a movie, folks, and we're in it.
truman
We need to tell the whole Truman story in Independence.
truman turns precise
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. Lord Mountbatten
truman-show painting boat
I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. Kanye West
truman
It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote, Douglas McGrath
truman
I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. Joseph Epstein
truman scene
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. Truman Capote