Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Kristol

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

Cheshire played very good zone defense. And we didn't play real well. It was a very big win for them and a tough loss for us because it was a cross-over game that counted in the league playoff standings.

Tom Ridge

By and large, I think you're going to see any country that hosts Olympics -- it's a wide international stage -- to go to those lengths to provide maximum security,

John Prescott

By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all the countries within the EU and the obligations Ankara has signed up to.

By our count we gave them 10 or 12 outs in those two innings.

Clint Bowyer

By no means am I going to count us out of this championship. This championship hunt isn't over until the last race in Homestead.

But we also know that if countries demand unrealistic and premature measures, they will harm the NPT and set back everyone's cause,

Hopefully the growth in the county helps out and increases our revenue. But there is a possibility we might have to look at a tax increase. We're going to have to allocate more money for the precincts than what we're getting now.

Honestly, every time I pencil his name in there and he comes up in the rotation I'm counting on a good game. Whether I get it or I don't, I have that high hope.

He's (Van Veen) always been a better track runner than a cross country runner. Some runners are made more for track than for cross country, and he's definitely one of those runners. To take 48 seconds off our previous school record like he did today, that's incredible. Especially considering that he did it at a meet like this.

Jim Calhoun

Being No. 1 isn't a goal of ours like the Big East championship or the national championship, but we feel we're one of the better programs in the country for the last 15 years and being No. 1 is another notch for us as a total program.

Allan Ray

Being No. 1 in the country would definitely be a great accomplishment for the school and the fans and everyone.

Being such a strong winter sport country with selling tickets we don't expect it will be a problem. If we don't sell out everything we will, to some, degree fail.

E. B. White

Being in Ingham County Jail is the safest she has been in some period of time.

Richard Thomas

His counting should be done fairly. The fire marshall should come out, get a manager and sit there and count. He should make sure the count is accurate.

High prices have given all producing countries a lot more leverage.

His heroism, patriotism and service to the country are something we all need to see as a role model.

He wrestled smart. He's a tough kid. I can never count him out.

Chris, up top, is starting to find his scoring touch. It seems like we can count on him for a goal every game.

Cache County is growing at a much slower pace than other counties in the state.

Calvert County is a wonderful place today, and he has helped to make it that way, ... I think he can be extremely proud of his tenure.

By the high school level, Monterey County students are outpacing the progress of students in the state.

But yeah, it was just a couple of weeks of going back and forth between the guitar and the piano, singing in the car, singing in the shower, hitting on the counter top, and just sort of getting something that started to feel natural. That was the one thing I was after, something that just flowed.

But he hasn't been doing county fairs or house parties like some of the other governors. And ... he's not holding big dinners for reporters.

But I love the way the Sox put trust in their starting pitchers. They kept their pitch counts low and just shut us down.

(Beck's) one of the toughest guys in the conference. We ran up his pitch count to over 100 and had some opportunities, but our defense let us down.

Utada Hikaru

Because when you're making something, if it overlaps with something or if it's like anything else, that doesn't really count as a creation, right?

Before we initiate a package or system of incentives and disincentives we also have to have a better way of counting graduation rates,

James Denton

Because there's so much of it as a kid, you sort of rebel, so you hate country music. I never had any musical aspirations at all.

Harry Belafonte

To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country’s intent to take care of its people.

Harry Belafonte

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell,

Harry Belafonte

When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces at play that I choose to relate to and extract inspiration from, and as long as they stay committed to the struggle against poverty, I find a role for myself.

Harry Belafonte

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.