Famous Quotes & Sayings

Since the appropriations are expenditures of water and sewer surplus funds, they have the effect of reducing the water and sewer fund balance. These appropriations should be subtracted from the fund balance.

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Fein is not going to give up on its peace strategy and is going to work for a more effective peace process.

August Krogh

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.

Aravind Adiga

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Michael McDonald

This procurement element of the scorecard will in effect promote the support of manufacturing in South Africa.

Ayn Rand

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Bill Cowher

The extra day won't have any effect on it. We're going to have to weather the flurry that will be involved with the emotions, the speed of the game and playing a high-quality football team.

We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective for us. We like it because you look at our scorebook, and we've had probably eight different people who have led us in scoring.

Raghuram Rajan

The primary risk is of a greater slowing of house price growth than anticipated we estimate that the effect of house prices staying flat, as opposed to growing by about 5 percent, could lop one percentage point off U.S. growth.

When things happen in the core, it has a ripple effect throughout the parish.

Jeremy Corbyn

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Alexander Dubcek

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Sen. Hatch probably spends that much in a week. I am very effective at managing money.

She was still pretty effective when she was in.

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

She's got a great effect on other people. When she comes to practice, she comes to work. She doesn't goof around, and I think that's infectious.

The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.

The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far more muted than expected.

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Ira Sachs

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

Nigel Hamilton

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

Michael Douglas

We did the first one as good as you can. You can't make the special effects any better. There was no reason to do it. They offered it to me years ago, and I just saw no reason to do it.

We are going to throw it into a big pile on the ground and everyone has to walk through it and really see the effects of what they are doing.

Dean Karnazes

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

This would be unprecedented and, needless to say, would have tremendous effects on fishermen. But we don't see around this, is what we're saying. No flexibility.

The project paid for itself in a single month. Every 30 minutes your gain is millions of dollars. It's effective when you work with a large workforce.

The only effective solution is to make them off-limits.

Traders are uncertain of the full effects Katrina will have on production.

David Martin

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effects on fibromyalgia. Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.