Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Kozol

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

John Crowley

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

Greg Lukianoff

Real harassment is a real problem, but the AAUW conflates harassment with any expression deemed sexually 'offensive' and thus endangers free expression while trivializing actual harassment.

Proof of concepts are out there but end users have not been affected by exploits in the wild the way they typically are with some other platforms. It's never good to say don't be concerned about security, however, the actual effects on users of our platform are minimal.

Projections don't mean anything, what matters to me are the actual results.

People think it's all tropical island; they don't know about the actual people who live here.

Our conclusion is that despite some of the positive remarks from Roadway, actual performance and guidance lead us to believe that it is still too early to own ground transportation names and that we may continue to see additional signs of slowing and operating ratio deterioration before the economy begins to turn,

Our concern in Montreal is mainly with the advertising. The actual cars are pretty good.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

People really need to be aware that there are a lot of products, especially ginger ales these days, that put in a synthetic form of ginger or hardly any real ginger. So if you really wanted the medicinal effect, you would have to make sure that that brand had actual ginger in it.

People are welcome to come and enjoy the release at 11 a.m. on March 2. The observation point is about a mile from the actual release site, so those interested may want to bring binoculars or a spotting scope.

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

Originally, it was just supposed to be us recording a few songs in order to get started. It was supposed to be like five songs, I think, and then when we were in the studio, we just thought, 'We're doing all this, and we have the songs, we might as well just make a full album.' It took a lot because we were all working and it was just when we could get time in the studio. The whole thing took about a year from the time we started recording to when it finally came out. The actual recording time probably was two weeks.

Scott Drew

Normally you're looking at a five-year process to revitalize a program. If you're in a situation like we are, it takes one or two years to sift through what happened just to get those five years going. Next year begins our actual rebuilding process.

John Thompson

No set time limit is in place since the actual decision to build isn't in place.

A few years ago, we launched a campaign that dovetailed with the latest Batman movie release. It was fun and cool, but it didn't drive real world relevance to our customers. The idea to use actual customer tapes came from our dealers and customers-they asked us to share their stories.

Jerry Brown

A farmer or an extension agent will be there talking about that particular animal and what products come from it and what it eats and how much it weighs. We're hoping the kids get a better appreciation for agriculture and that they realize there are actual local people behind the scenes working to stock the shelves of their grocery stores.

Sathya Baba

After mastering the texts and gaining experience in putting the lessons into actual practice, one can share the light and the joy with others.

Actual stored data can be reduced by magnitudes and result in enormous cost savings.

Storm surge (in coastal areas) could be a real problem, depending on where the actual landfall is. That's the thing we are most concerned about.

Specific details are being finalized. People should wait until they see what the actual facts are before they rush to judgment.

Charles Francis Richter

So we tried to keep the interpretation of the 'size of the earthquake' as closely tied to the actual instrument observations involved as possible.

Once you see the actual person you are donating for it is so emotional.

Georg Cantor

One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.

Chris Adams

November rolled around and our checks came up smaller then normal. DC Studios was finally deducting Federal Taxes, another step we looked forward to during this acquisition. This happened twice in November, yet no new contracts had been drawn which justified any Dallas member as an actual employee of DC Studios. We questioned this matter, and in December, our first check came in and it was back to the old figures, where no taxes were being taken out. So where did our Federal Tax money go, not to mention the withholdings for Health Insurance, which we found out was canceled due to non-payment?

Actual cost of duplication (onto a CD) is probably less than a buck.

Actual changes in production will not reassure markets unless they go hand in hand with an increase in capacity.

Deliberations are still on-going but the fundamental concepts have been tackled. What we now await is the actual resumption of the train service.

They have taken a decision as vile and sinister as the actual act of terrorism. Once more the U.S. government has been unmasked as a farce in the war on terrorism,

There's a whole bunch of lessons to be learned about the actual physical construction of this system. Do we even need canals? Why not just build 20-foot-wide pipelines to the lake to act as conduits for storm water?

There's cost involved there. There's labor hours, maintenance, wear and tear on the machines, there's fuel costs that's involved and that's every call whether it's an actual emergency or a false call.

There's always a place for actual tactile shopping.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.