Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

James Kunke

The people of Lewisville should be proud of the response we were able to put on the ground. We had everything that the disaster response required, except the disaster.

Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

Elizabeth Holmes

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Jared Diamond

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Barbara Johnson

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Jennifer Connelly

The producers were great. They tried so hard to make it bearable. They got a hot tub so I could sit around and be warm between without having to dry off the whole time. But there was a lot trudging around in cold, dank water.

Charles Spurgeon

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Dan Glickman

We have just got to roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry weather crisis,

Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Charles M. Schulz

Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes!

Theo Van Gogh

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Charles R. Swindoll

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Bible Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Wayne Lukas

She didn't like the off-track the first time. I think she just runs better on the dry track.

Barry Trotz

We have to get as many points as can right now. We have to get some separation. We have a lot of teams playing each other in the Western Conference. We are going to gain some ground on someone.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Wayne Morgan

We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

Lonnie Roberts

We're happy to be in the playoffs and have the opportunity to take it all in and gain the experience.

Elvis Picardo

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain in one day, which is hard to keep up.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Carl Nellis

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Dee Bell

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

Tom DeLay

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Megan Snow

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Teresa Cowan

We are now the proud new owners of this property.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.