Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

Janet Frame

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Jane Siberry

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

Jane Siberry

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Jane Siberry

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

Lizzy Caplan

I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.

What we're doing is nothing more than what we've been doing for the last 20 years.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

What we lack in membership we make up in charm.

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Ariel Sharon

There is a problem with the law on compensating victims of terrorism,

There are some new requirements, but I don't think that the gist of the old law has changed. They don't want quorums meeting (secretly), and we'll make sure that that doesn't happen.

The only way we can do that is with a roundabout. The geometrics (of a roundabout) lay out, but we have to make sure it works out operationally.

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

I bottomed out at state last year and that was a lot of my motivation today. That, and coach. He's done a lot for this program and we wanted to do well for him.

I am satisfied with my performance in the last 20 months. I have no regrets for losing power. Power may come and go.

Mark Brunell

I am sick that we lost the game. Particularly with the numbers that we have had or haven't had these last two games, it has been difficult.

Jessica Simpson

I am really all about making people laugh and smile right now,

Wolf Blitzer

I am told that there is very little hope, but that they wanted to wait two weeks, ... Late Edition.

I am tired of tears and laughter,/ And men that laugh and weep;/ Of what may come hereafter/ For men that sow and reap.

Scott Hartnell

But we went out there on our last shift and said, 'We are going to do it.'

But we've got a long way to go if we plan to get where we were last year.

Joe Torre

But we understand what they did to us last time.

But this is going to stay for a while. We can't get lax this time.

Ali Larijani

But they are not going to talk to us in the language of threats.

But there will be no pressure on the lad to come in and set the world alight. We want him to settle in first.

Mariah Carey

But there is nothing going on. That's the last time I saw him.

Mahathir Mohamad

Businesses, large and small, have been bankrupted. The social well-being of the people has been disrupted.

Phil Garner

Burke was able to play today, ... But he took a turn for the worse severely last night. And he's on life support.

Julie Gerberding

but for people under tremendous stress from the circumstances of the last days, we want to take every step to protect them.

Basically, that's saying that it's unchanged. We were doing well, not as well as last year, but we're doing well, and this says we're still doing well,

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.