Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history and has caused unimaginable devastation and heartbreak throughout the Gulf Coast region. A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated,

I thought that changed the entire momentum of the game. It caused turnovers and we scored off transition. It put us in a comfort zone that I felt much better about.

I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.

I think what we did was slack up on a lot of it, and that's what caused the problems. So when we rededicated ourselves, we went back to doing all of the things that made us a success in the beginning.

Bob Lutz

I think what happened was the manifest success of the Prius caused a rethink on everybody's part,

It has been Coles that has caused its own lost momentum and that is particularly disappointing.

He takes full responsibility for his actions, and he's really troubled by the pain he's caused the City Commission, Sante Fe and his family.

He has no idea who he is, and he is sad that he has caused us so much pain. I just told him we are so happy he was found. We're just hoping for the best, to get our Ray back.

Claude Makelele

had suffered a slight emotional upset caused by his personal and professional situation.

He had a medical condition that caused him to have an unsteady gait. It makes it feasible that he could have tripped and fallen.

If this would have happened while he was driving down the highway, it could have definitely caused some injuries.

If someone has an offensive odor that's not caused by a disability or illness, American can remove them from the flight.

He's had confidence before and he's had success before. It's in the package. That's what it is all about, for individual players to realize that who they are is good enough. Most of the problems are caused when a player thinks he has to do more or be radically different than what his talents are in order to succeed. In most cases, that's not the case. They just need to be themselves and trust that.

Geoff Mulgan

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

There are many theories but we don't know for sure what caused the accident, ... The prime minister instructed us to respond with urgency.

P. J. O'Rourke

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

The past few days have been painful for everyone involved. But that is nothing compared to any offense that may have been caused to disabled people in our community and in our country.

Thomas Sowell

The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.

We see there is a lot more layering on Mars than was previously thought and whatever the mechanism was that caused it has gone on for a long time.

Under the Louisiana product liability statute, a manufacturer can be held liable for damage caused by a product that is unreasonably dangerous in design.

First, it does not provide effective guarantee to prevent the political confrontation caused by the country specific resolution, which has become a chronic disease of the Commission on Human Rights.

David Fischer

First crop hay was abundant, but yields for 2nd, 3rd and 4th cuttings have seen significant reductions. I think overall there may be about a 25 percent drop in the alfalfa crop here, which includes a reduction caused by fairly extensive winterkill in some fields.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments

Famine is not caused by a shortage of food; it's caused by a shortage of justice,

Harry Reid

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

Deborah Mailman

I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.

David Souter

We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

James Smith

When the curve inverts, run for the exits. It will stay that way until the Fed realizes it caused a recession in 2007. Investors should start planning for a recession.

Kofi Annan

While no one today could have had the power to prevent the earthquake from happening, we do have the power to stop the next wave: the deaths and despair caused by freezing temperatures and disease, by lack of shelter, food and water,

Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.

We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what,

James Hall

We are committed and intend to find out what caused this accident.