Famous Quotes & Sayings

But give people more information, and we can incorporate it into our thinking process. We can attach and assign probabilities and then more or less go on with our normal lives. I think that's exactly what's unfolding.

George H. W. Bush

I don't know whether or not the press corps realizes it, but his is a challenging assignment, dealing with you all on a regular basis, and I thought he handled his assignment with class and integrity ... It's going to be hard to replace Scott.

Ideally, early in the planning stages, before reporters and photographers are assigned to a story, we like to be involved at that point, to make sure the content gathering keeps our needs in mind. If we don't find out about it until the night before, we're often not able to produce an interactive graphic.

If they transfer to another store, they would be at least at the same position. In some cases, like for co-managers, it could result in a promotion to manager. There could be a few cases where they would transfer to corporate headquarters, which, of course, would be a different type of assignment from store operation.

Troy Vincent

I don't have a selfish bone in my body. I understand that moving on is part of the nature of this business. My assignment was up in Philadelphia. I did exactly what I was supposed to do there. It's not bittersweet at all. I feel exactly the same way I have for my 13 years in the NFL. You don't like watching two other teams going to the Super Bowl. But I'm overjoyed for them.

Porter Goss

would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks, whether it be an operation in the field or being assigned to a hot topic at headquarters.

Glen Davis

My assignment is to play the biggest and best post man on each team. So I just have to do what I'm supposed to do to get the ball game won. I'm just going to take it as a regular game.

Christiane Amanpour

More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.

Matthew Pearl

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

The Denver District Attorney's Office was assigned to be the special prosecutor in regard to some criminal allegations that came from Jefferson County. The Denver District Attorney's Office has presented the allegations to the . . . Jefferson County grand jury.

John C. Calhoun

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

Charles Francis Richter

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

Lauren Willig

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

Orison Swett Marden

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Khalil Gibran

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

Mike Wallace

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Nancy Horan

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

We reduce the number of singles and that provides more spaces to assign students to.

William Robertson Smith

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

We're going to be running posts both day and night. We assign them to a position and that's where they'll be during the day and then another position at night.

The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.

Brian Skerry

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

William Campbell

When I found out what ship I had been assigned to, I immediately went to the ship's website and researched it.

We have an extremely high demand. We have over 800 wells in which we cannot currently assign rigs to which would be in the order of four times larger than anything this time of year.

Rusty Schweickart

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Eddie Jordan

Today there was a collective effort. We are riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Caron did a really good job defensively. He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain, and we are just riding a wave right now.

When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormous docket. I tried in each case to make sure that the litigants not only in fact received, but also felt that they had received, a full and fair opportunity to be heard.

John Hall

We'll have a one-day training session in Atlanta, get our immunizations, badges and be assigned to a location in the Gulf Coast region,

You don't assign officers in whom you have no confidence to positions of responsibility like Deputy Director for Operations on the Joint Staff.

Brian Kelly

We encourage everyone to renew early because it allows us to be more effective and efficient in doing our seating and parking assignments. The more we have in early, the quicker we can start the assignment process.