Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Cohen

Malthus would be astonished not only at the numbers of people, but at the real prosperity of about a fifth of them and the average prosperity of most of them. He wouldn't be surprised at the abject poverty of the lowest quarter or third.

Robert Edgar

The abject poverty revealed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exists in every urban area of the United States. It's poverty so severe that it kills people.

Rex Tillerson

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Shawn Amos

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

Jim Letten

New Orleans' survival depends on three things. Getting a handle on violent crime, building a viable public school system and eradicating the abject and debilitating corruption that that has plagued New Orleans for so long.

John C. Calhoun

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

Ben Carson

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Michael Barrett

This string sextet by Schoenberg is based on a Viennese poem in which a women walks with her lover under the moon and confesses that she is pregnant by another man. The man tells his love he will stay with her no matter what and raise the child. The arc of the piece moves from abject sorrow and guilt to joy and underscores the transformative power of love and commitment.

Gordon Brown

We are conscious of the abject poverty that so many countries and individuals face. We're being driven forward by the urgent need to act,

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Ghazi Hamad

Rockets are one of the resistance tools. Our people have the right to resist the occupation. The occupation is the problem and as long as the problem exists our people have the right to resist.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Stephen Evans

Freedom exists in the experience of the perceiver; it is undeniably unique and scuttled by need for confirmation from others.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

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,

Jim Reynolds

Part of the work involved with every hurricane is to lock the place down and make it as secure as possible, and that takes time to occur.

Chris Sisko

People need to be securing property and putting up their hurricane shutters to safeguard their homes.

Lynette Miller

Our problem with coastal storms does not end with the hurricane season.

Jack Beven

Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall,

Michael Chertoff

last summer FEMA, who reports to you, and the LSU Hurricane Center, and local and state officials did a simulated Hurricane Pam in which the levees broke. ... Thousands drowned.

Michael Lomax

I went through seven hurricane seasons. We went through the drills.

Janet Callison

There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.

Fumihiko Kawano

Just talk of the hurricane weakening was enough to push up the dollar.

Julie Gerberding

I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Falkenrath

I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission,

Stacy Brown

I'm still waiting on official Katrina evacuee demographics. I think that it's going to be pretty useful data, because it will serve as a source of how many people can potentially become homeless.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Mark Zandi

Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

Jay Campbell

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Warren Williams

Our son is a first respondor and had to stay back in New Orleans and do search and rescue,

Gary Griggs

I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

Brian Kern

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Alberto Fujimori

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Adrienne Rich

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

James Todd

The racism, bigotry and poverty in the South made me a liberal.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad.

Christopher Molineux

Sometimes things are most truly revealed by the illuminance of twilight

Jacki Weaver

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Terry Lanni

It has to be distinctive and it has to be more urban and it has to feel contemporary.