Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Gilpin Faust

Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.

As these types of cases go, this is not remarkable.

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

At present the three outbreaks were stamped out and no new cases found.

At this point in camp, our production has been erratic at best. I just think we have a lot of ground we have to cover, and we only have a couple of weeks to go. I haven't seen a lot of things I was hoping to see out of this group. I was hoping to see a step up and have a big improvement, but the improvements we've had have been marginal, and in a couple of cases I won't say that guys have regressed, but they haven't progressed at all. Right now, I'm not real thrilled.

P. J. O'Rourke

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Christopher Cox

Confirmed and probable cases have been reported in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Seven other states are investigating suspected mumps cases.

The WHO is saying that even if the laboratory diagnosis is not confirmed, these cases should be taken as seriously as if they were cholera.

This administration is assessing all of the cases and some of those cases may ultimately be reopened.

They were establishing new societies, in some cases for commercial reasons, in more cases for religious reasons.

This is a market that needed a correction. It just had this huge run since late spring that in many cases took the most expensive stocks and made them more expensive.

They (the dead) were certainly all in contact with the same source of infection, but they (the WHO team) will also try to see whether we are looking at the first cases of human-to-human transmission.

Donald Rumsfeld

and I know for a fact that in a number of cases the coordination is quite good.

A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu at all, but other respiratory viruses like RSV. At least with the flu, we have something to control ita vaccine.

A lot of people have the mistaken assumptions that they have to have a 529 plan for college savings, and that they should be part of the plans in their own state. It all depends on what your needs are, but in a lot of cases there are better choices.

A lot of time people think of ownership as this ultimate thing with music. Has owning cassettes in the past really benefited people? In many cases they have had to repurchase music in a new format.

Brian Quinn

You would think with the larger population and the airport, there would be cases in the St. Louis area. It's probably only a matter of time.

You may think that 13 is not significant amount, but this is 10 percent of the contracted fleet out of service for various lengths of time or in some cases permanently.

This is a pretty common problem in the technology world. This is one of those unfortunate cases where consumers were caught in-between the change.

Dennis Kucinich

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

You don't want to waste the court's time or jurors' time trying cases that should have been settled or dismissed.

This partisan 'report' is as devoid of context as it is new information, as it focuses on old issues that have already been resolved -- in some cases more than a year ago.

There will be many, many cases like this where there will be kids who will be left as orphans.

There really haven't been to my knowledge a whole lot of cases that have been predicated on excessive-comp issues. But just the fact that there are a handful I think is telling, because five or ten years ago, you didn't see them at all.

Kristian Bush

It's just been one of those things where we just put our heads down and started working really hard and it's one of those unique cases where hard work paid off. We've sold more records each week than we did the week before. It's really strange. No one knows what to think of us.

It was purely coincidental that these cases resolved within one week.

Ethel Merman

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

George Pataki

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Harper Lee

She was born in the Objective case.

Horace

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Gary has been a positive influence. He always simulates the other team's point guard in practice, and in many cases he's a better player.

Galileo Galilei

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

Even though housing prices have grown significantly, the wages in many cases have remained relatively stable.