Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bass

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

Bill Cheney

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Jeff Morris

Refineries lost a lot of money. In fact they lost money for most of the 1990s. People chose not to spend on refineries. So what's affecting us now is that we're behind the investment curve and it will take us five to 10 years to catch up.

Jack Smith

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We're particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Wade Henderson

President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

Michael Carliner

Rebuilding occurred over years, just in the normal course of events -- I don't think we'll have a building surge here.

Max Heindel

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Steve Squyres

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan,

Peter Uihlein

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

Dave Long

Some of this we'd like to do fairly soon and some of this could be done over the course of the year.

Chris Young

That course is a lot like The Highlands. But regardless, as long as you hit it straight, hit the fairways and putt, you'll score well, and I think we'll do that. During a 56-hole tournament, the top teams usually come to the top.

Chuck Morton

Our price per credit hour is about $110-$115 less than the state schools. So you go to a state institution and try to get into graduate school, it's probably about $350 per credit hour so you're talking about a thousand dollars per course as opposed to $690 per course that we have here. So we think we have a viable product and there is a viable market out there for our product. And we think we're doing the right thing. We're upholding the standards of the institution, just looks good all around.

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Donald Powell

Rebuilding should not become an exercise in centralized planning. If federal bureaucrats determine the path of rebuilding, local insight and initiative will be overrun and local needs overlooked.

Donn Walker

Our policy is to let each resort determine its own smoking policy.

Ron Carlson

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Susan Aspey

State and local officials determine staffing needs. We don't dictate hiring decisions.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Ken Stone

Stand back and look at the big picture. Have you ever stopped and wondered why people shop at your business? Determine your strengths and weaknesses and go from there.

John Cacioppo

Our results indicate loneliness is not a personality weakness. Quite the contrary, it is just part of the genetic variation that we find in humans.

Brian Evans

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

Dorothy Moore

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

Martin Chalfie

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

Robert Casey

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Susanna Larsson

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Richard Pound

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

Eric Chavez

Regardless of what happened today, we've got to sweep. We'd need a miracle going for us to sweep them, but you never know. It was a miracle last year with Boston.

Micky Arison

Pat told me what had happened before practice Friday, and I stayed to watch. It looked like any other practice I've ever seen him run.

Stuart Sternberg

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

Dustin Pedroia

Right when I swung, I was like, 'Oh, my God!' because it was the worst pain ever. I knew right away that I'd done something. It's frustrating because it happened on my very first swing.

Brian McCann

Right place, right time. It was a whirlwind; it all just happened so fast.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know

Mark Mann

(Pitching coach) Vern Ruhle doesn't want him to throw too many pitches in an inning. That's what happened last time out. There was no physical problem.

M. Wolfe

I'm hoping this is going to help me get through what happened 45 years ago.

Ivan Ljubicic

We never lost hope. It happened to us before, and we managed to come back. When we got the feel on the return I knew everything was possible.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).