Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Biggert

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Joe Baca

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

Lawrence Hargrave

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

We want students to start to take control of their education.

We are hitting the consumer with headwinds that we have not witnessed on record.

We are here to help a friend in need. We'll worry about the popularity contest later.

Eliot Spitzer

We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money,

We did not have the strength of herd control last year that we felt was necessary, and this winter up north has been relatively mild.

John Bolton

We did not have sufficient confidence in this text to be able to say that the Human Rights Council will be better than its predecessor.

Phil Bredesen

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

We did not end the season on a positive note. But, as always, we have high expectations. We have a lot of guys returning (from a team that finished 19-7-1 and won the conference title for the fourth-consecutive year) and we have quite a few skill-players.

We did have our people go out and do the inspection, and they also concur that it is a reservoir that needed immediate attention.

Joey Kern

We did have a tree snap that hit our house and knocked a few shingles and tore our gutter down, but I wouldn't consider that damage, relatively speaking,

We did have a report of one in that area. We haven't been able to confirm it.

We did have a number of quality performances and hopefully as we continue more improvements will be forthcoming.

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

John Ferguson

We did consider a number of things . . . but we didn't have that organizational depth to consider some other things on the back end.

Graeme Edge

We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Directions would appear, and it often fell to me to write the poem that connected the dots.

We deserve that record. Our guys played hard and stuck together through a lot of ups and downs. And we continued to win.

We deserved to win this match. Even though Real Madrid had a lot of possession in the second half, we were able to conserve the score. It's a good start for us and for the fans.

John McCarthy

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John Lewis

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

John Key

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

John Key

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

John Piper

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

John Piper

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

Jennifer Lawrence

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Lynsey Addario

Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

Jamie Moyer

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.