Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is another avenue to assess those kids we don't have a lot of data on.

Murray Rothbard

After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.

Milton Berle

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

John Ashcroft

For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,

For some reason, everyone is mentioning the less pleasant things ... any assessment is irresponsible - things can go one way or the other.

If he had a similar performance, he'd have to assess the situation again.

Samantha Morton

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

John Grahame

I believe in the ISAT and teaching to that test, but my worry is that it will be changed drastically enough that teachers may not recognize it and our students will be at a disadvantage, ... But if we can have a better test to assess the kids, it should be done.

Samuel Bodman

How long before we return to normal? It's hard to know, because we have not yet got an assessment

Mary Roach

I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale - even for me.

Randy Carlyle

I don't like to individually make comments about players, when it's from a negative point. The assessment I look at is, he wasn't as sharp as he needed to be and our team wasn't as sharp as it needed to be.

before the end of September and I would be really very happy if I had the possibility to assess positively.

Marv Levy

Change just for the sake of change or for cosmetic reasons is not good. But I'm not close enough to the situation to really assess it. I don't know the inner workings of the staff and Mike.

change its course and give an honest assessment of the state of the nation.

By bringing in Oak Ridge for independent reviews to assess our technical work, we ensure the highest level of expertise and credibility as we move the project forward.

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The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further policy firming may be needed to keep the risks ... roughly in balance' will be dropped.

Neal A. Maxwell

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Nelson Mandela

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Mario Monti

Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

P. Chidambaram

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

Margaret Spellings

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

The last five years, we assess every position before we fill it,

Larry Brown

The direction is not going the way we would all like and we've got to do something about that. This is a pretty good time from now until All-Star break to kind of assess where we're going, but I do really feel good about a lot of the pieces here and I think a lot of them have a chance to get a lot better.

Hilaire Belloc

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

The European Commission has so far received no information which suggests the UK authorities have breached the requirements. The UK authorities are still investigating the circumstances in this case and the Commission will wait for the outcome of that investigation to properly assess the situation.

The environmental assessment takes the flow program into account, but not to the extent that the city of Pueblo would like it to.

The first thing I need to say is we're just doing an assessment to see if there is a need for a program in Nevada. We are gathering information that we'll take back and see if it works.

The club may have to assess the golf club members. Or they may have to borrow the money. It's not something you can't do. You got to do it.

The commission won't be there to harass or to oblige. It will make an assessment and recommend what we need to do. A channel of dialogue will be opened.

John Perry

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

Mike Easley

The damage assessment teams will follow essentially the same path Ophelia did, starting in the southern counties and moving north, ... This is a vital step in the recovery process, and one that will help provide our people the help they need to get life back to normal.

Phil Jones

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.