Famous Quotes & Sayings

This gives me a chance to branch out and see what's out there.

This could be how the first flight began?insects just jumped off branches and started gliding.

This further empowers the executive branch to do whatever it wants outside of the law.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Harry Reid

This is a power play.... When you have all three branches of government controlled by the Republicans, you wind up with stuff like this, which is simply a misuse of power.

This means, even when our branches are not open, students can still get homework help.

It's either an olive branch to acknowledge that they need to do more or others might view it as throwing down the gauntlet for government and business to work together.

Randy Barnett

It seems perfectly reasonable for the president to want members of the executive branch to be loyal to him and to follow his directions rather than those of the bureaucracies they lead. They will leave their positions when the president leaves. Making a lifetime appointment of a friend to the Supreme Court is a whole different matter.

It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

Herman Melville

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Henry Mayhew

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

Generally speaking, 95 percent of all branch applications get approved. It's really not a controversial process.

Jamal Lewis

Branch said. ''They never even thought about me.

Even though I am the branch manager, if they need me to help teller, I will go up there and help. Anything to do with servicing the customer, I'll be there.

Arthur Machen

Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery

Do you open a limited branch? Or will you have a loan officer that goes out to a remote area? ... One thing that this product can do is be a leading indicator of whether you should open a branch in a new area.

Chen Shui-bian

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

The statute tries to cram a fourth branch of government into our three-branch system.

The SSG gives Juniper a high performance and highly flexible platform to challenge competitors in the security/unified threat management market, while opening up opportunities to compete for business in branch office environments where customers are revisiting the concept of converged data and security, competing head-to-head with Cisco's Integrated Services Routers.

Tucker Carlson

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

Ariel Sharon

To an outstretched hand of peace we will respond with an olive branch but expressions of terror will be met by fire more intense than ever.

The way it's written now, the legislative branch would totally give up any oversight of those records. That's the danger.

Harriet Miers

The wisdom of those who drafted our Constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches has proven truly remarkable.

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

We just need to let the judicial branch do their business and the truth will hopefully decide what we do next. But I support Mike 150 percent and will do everything I can to support him and encourage him and get him by this.

Sadie Jones

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

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

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

Richard King

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

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.