Famous Quotes & Sayings

That sort of gave me the feel that he would be able to play at that level. At what branch of that level, I wasn't totally sure.

That ruling doesn't simply hit innocent men now in their fifth year of imprisonment. It goes to whether we have a judicial branch at all. This is that rare question so vital that the Supreme Court should immediately intervene to answer.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

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

Paul Freeman

There's been a huge growth spurt in branch construction.

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.

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.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Mark Billingham

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

Harry Reid

If confirmed to this lifetime job, John Roberts would become the leader of the third branch of the federal government and the most prominent judge in the nation. The Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

Joe Henderson

I felt that I needed to branch out, ... I enjoyed racing in Nashville but there's a limit as to how far you can go there.

Randy Newman

I don't want your pity. I want to thank first of all the music branch for giving me so many chances to be humiliated over the years.

Andre Gide

How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch

By midyear, we'll have in the neighborhood of 25 branches running Win 2000,

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

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

It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,

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.

Ron Wyden

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

Matt LeBlanc

It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.

It's the human-interest factor. You root for her at Indy and you want her to do well here. It's good for her to branch out and prove herself in front of a wider audience.

Pete Carroll

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Gustav Mahler

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

William Daley

Governor Bush said that under our system of government the legislative branch passes the laws, the executive branch administers the law. Unfortunately, he left out one important branch of our government, the judicial branch, which has the responsibility of interpreting our laws and reconciling conflicts between statutes.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.