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.

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.

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.

We need to get clarity about who is in charge of the government: three branches or one.

The Great American Cleanup allows us to branch out from the Adopt-A-Street program to other communities and schools. It also gives us an opportunity to visit schools and teach about litter prevention and recycling.

Tom Lantos

to develop a complete picture of the decision-making that led the United States to go to war. ... And the Executive Branch owes it to the American people to make certain that their elected representatives are fully informed.

You are the tree; Your branches have blossomed forth. From the very small and subtle, You have become huge and manifest.

The innovative design of this branch reinforces our commitment to provide our customers with top-notch services in a comfortable atmosphere.

John Corbett

The new branch office will be completed by the end of this month or early next month. This has been about a nine-month process.

In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

They'll have to do some work to get the branches up to snuff.

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

They're branches off the original technology fund. In the next several years, we see accelerated opportunities in those two areas.

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

Stephen Hadley

In terms of the administration and executive branch process, that process has been completed ... There's nothing to reopen. In terms of the CFIUS, process, it's been completed.

If you don't have fundamental biology, all the branches are going to whither.

Bryan Sykes

If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two branches or where they come from.

In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

Instead of looking for ways out, we need to look for reasons to keep this branch here.

In public esteem, the judges are the most highly rated of the three branches of government.

In Oxford there was a strong branch of the League of Nations Union with Gilbert Murray as its chairman and Margaret Wilson as its secretary.

But instead of a tree, we got a bush where many branches sprout close together.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

E. P. Thompson

You will not see a Wal-Mart branch in a Wal-Mart store.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: / Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. and abroad. You're looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved