Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

We started investing overseas quite a while ago -- for at least the last five or six years. We continue to branch that out.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Michael Hayden

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Throughout our history, there has been an ebb and flow of one branch being a little more powerful, the president getting a little more power, then congress being more powerful, ... Don't Know Much About History.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

Liberty can never be secure when the judicial branch declares its impotence.

Jeff Garcia

She's what they need, she's what the party needs in light of our last go-round for governor. It's glaringly obvious we need to branch out.

She's really quite an expert on dealing with the realities of the struggles between the executive branch, the legislative branch ? and I'm going to say ? the judicial branch,

Karl Schroeder

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

Doug Collins

Since Olive Branch is one of the fastest growing communities in Mississippi and Prudential Collins-Maury was ready to expand, it was a natural fit.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

John Hull

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

Frankly some of the branches did not execute at the branch level. That is disappointing but we are working very hard to get that message out today.

For public universities, it is inevitable that the legislative and executive branch appropriations are going to have to be reassessed every year. There's never an ironclad guarantee.

Dick Gephardt

I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

It caused consternation (among the judges) that the City Council was looking at it, and they want a separation of powers, ... They're the judicial branch, and they don't seem to think the executive branch or the legislative branch of city government should be looking at them.

I think they are paying a very expensive price for the bank. They are paying US$35mn per branch. The cost of building a branch shouldn't be more than US$1mn.

It is a different branch of the sport. It offers an alternative and its a fascinating alternative.

I think the charge of a cover-up is false and irresponsible. This was legislation intended to protect the rights of voters who register at a license branch to make sure that, if there's a delay in getting the paper copy or the electronic signature, they'll still be able to vote.

Aaron Patzer

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

has to deal with the legislature and other branches of government.

Thad Cochran

I think we shouldn't impose any deadlines or date on the military or on the executive branch for conducting operations in that part of the world that we feel are important to our national security interests.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Robert Sterling

H&R Block's real strength is they have these branch offices everywhere and a lot of talented people who do taxes and that's a real strength and they need to focus on that. They demonstrated pretty clearly last year that they weren't very good at the Web side of it, so they've got to get better, but the main focus is bringing what they do well to more people.

People are not looking at the facts. We have no aspirations to have our own branch in our stores. We've said publicly that we have no intent to branch. We're heading the other way.

Oversight is an ongoing process by which Congress keeps an eye on the executive branch agencies. That is not what I see happening.