Famous Quotes & Sayings

The potential for damage by this storm is significant, and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to dissipate. ... Texas has learned from Louisiana's example. No one wants to repeat those mistakes.

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Jane Anderson

We've already begun talking about some things we can do differently next time, but we were really pleased with this election. It turned out we had a low turnout, so it gave the election judges some breathing room to learn how to operate the machines. But all in all, I believe everything went smoothly and well.

We stagnated for a little while, but through a combination of things we've begun to take off.

Natalie Massenet

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

With the holidays now upon us, everyone throughout our global toy organization is focused on maximizing our performance during this season, ... We have begun to execute our holiday strategies, and we believe consumers are clearly recognizing that we have the widest assortment of toys available.

Very few marketing organizations haven't at least thought about creating a dashboard or begun investments into it. Marketers might not have a dashboard today, but the reality that they need to be more accountable is here to stay.

David Trimble

We're glad to see that the IRA has taken a significant step towards decommissioning but it hasn't actually begun decommissioning. And of course we want to see that happen.

Sue Monk Kidd

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Eric Cantor

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

Joseph Rotblat

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

We're looking to create the 'Windows' for IP phones. The phone has finally begun that metamorphosis.

J. Taylor

The real full force of this has begun to dawn on people. We're thinking realistically a lot of these children are going to be with us for three or four months.

The prime minister's condition remains unchanged... Today doctors will continue treatment begun yesterday.

LCN Technology is excited to offer Vignette's solutions to our customers. Web technologies have come a long way since the first major build-out of network services. LCN is excited about the new ways in which companies and individuals can communicate and collaborate for increased productivity. We have completed initial product training and have begun to build out what we expect to be a robust pipeline of opportunities.

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.

Vidya Balan

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

Alex Campbell

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

You don't need to investigate too far to find corruption. After only two or three months in power, officials have already begun their lives of luxury.

Tim Rice

And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.

We're encouraged by the news today that Freddy's injury is indeed minor. He has already begun the rehabilitation process and we look forward to having him back in uniform in a matter of weeks.

Alice Oswald

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Thomas Keller

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Ian Mckellen

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Gary Pruitt

We don't know how these will be sold or the exact structure. ... We have begun marketing these papers today. We have received inquiries already.

We believed the underlying level of claims peaked in the spring. This suggests that they may now genuinely have begun to decline.

Torsten Wiesel

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Kate Christensen

My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.

One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market is going to be stable, you are not going to be able to have high-powered growth.

On Inauguration Day on the 17th, this governor had already begun to receive correspondence. The letters were meeting us here.

Lauren London

I'm still young; I've had a couple things under my belt. I don't even think I've begun where I'm gonna be eventually. I really feel very much in the beginning of my journey. I feel very new.