Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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,

Ross Brawn

We need to find out what caused it.

We know there was some sort of catastrophic event that caused her (the pilot) to declare an emergency.

We know the public are concerned about the problems caused in our communities by drinking and we will continue to put efforts and resources into tackling the issue.

We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

We've been fortunate because we have an outstanding group that are not only pretty good players, but quality young men as well. We're going to have our hands full, though, trying to get anything going because their switching man-to-man defense has caused problems for a lot of teams.

I wasn't able to stay in the game for more than two or three minutes without getting tired. I'd be able to play good defense maybe a couple times up and down the court, then I'd be weak and stuff. It caused me to be light-headed, and I was sleeping all the time. So I was always tired and drowsy and worn out.

I would like to say that we caused that fumble, but it looked like it just slipped out of (the runner's) hands.

Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volumes (hurricanes, declines) plus lower than expected U.S. gas realizations, as well as weak European gas volumes.

while the devastation caused by Katrina in Louisiana is severe, initial reports indicate that the situation could be worse from the standpoint of resuming grain exports.

John Calipari

We just couldn't make a basket. Please, make a basket. A free throw. Anything. Hook it in, kick one in. But their defense caused us to do what we did.

You can definitely get killed, but something would have to go really wrong. It's only as safe as you are. Hand, finger and shoulder injuries are more common than any major trauma caused by a fall.

Weekly earnings growth has been steadily declining. ... It's not dire yet, but clearly it's not helpful, and it's caused us (Americans) to have negative saving rates. People have poured all of their money from the stock market into housing. ... If the housing (market) busts it will get ugly fast.

We really think we're seeing a bottoming in the market. We think the issues really have been dealt with that caused the real collapse of the market. We think we're in a bottoming process that can last a while -- we think the last leg of it is resolution of the Iraq conflict.

We really think we're seeing a bottoming in the market, ... We think the issues really have been dealt with that caused the real collapse of the market. We think we're in a bottoming process that can last a while -- we think the last leg of it is resolution of the Iraq conflict.

We had control in the first half, but in the fourth quarter their pressure defense got to us and caused turnovers that led to quick points.

We haven't reached the place where the explosion occurred. First we have to do all that's necessary to rescue our personnel. Then we can investigate what caused the explosion.

The problem was caused by an electronic flight plan that was frozen in the host computer, and the host computer tried to process the information and was unable to and that's why there were multiple aborts and restarts. We have not had a problem like this before.

The problems caused by population are still environmental news, but population is forgotten.

Billy Joel

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears.

Right now, it wasn't as important for us to determine what caused it as it was for us to put it out and get our workers to safely to surface.

Patricia Russo

Only in the last couple of weeks have we seen the effects of a general tightening on spending that has caused us to modify our expectations, ... We still see growth, but we thought it prudent to share that we see a tempering.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

Peter Shaffer

In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.

We have already seen some evidence of this?more than anything it has caused investors to start paying attention.

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Those kids turned themselves in and the reason they felt so convicted was because they had caused him so much work. They knew they could trust him, but they also knew he wouldn't let them get away with things.

Unfortunately there was some malfunction. Exactly what caused it we do not know." ()