Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Riedl

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Dominic Jones

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Eric Hyman

Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.

Rick Grice

(Statewide), the annual average wage and salary employment grew more than 46,000 jobs to a level nearly equal to the 2001 all-time high.

Melinda Schwartz

That cookbook quickly sold out and we've had requests for another. We thought it would be great to honor the 10th annual relay with a new cookbook.

Steven Benner

Our plan is to shoot for the goal of reaching $1 billion in total operating revenue and delivering 25 percent top- and bottom-line annual growth from now until 2010.

Peter Robertson

Our strong earnings and cash flows are enabling us to return cash to our stockholders and at the same time, fund a robust capital program, which in 2006 will be the highest annual spending in our history.

Ron Osborne

Our workshop is the only venue of its kind in the state that provides an annual forum for face-to-face training and information sharing on a wide range of emergency management topics.

David Montanye

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Roger Pielke

Our work suggests that the impacts of human-caused land cover changes on climate are at least as important, and quite possibly more important, than those of carbon dioxide,

John Rogie

The 24-hour variation suggested that the system was very dynamic and that more than a single measurement was needed to tell us if the carbon dioxide rates were going up, staying the same or going down.

Geoffrey Coates

Limonene has been around forever, carbon dioxide as well. What we've been able to do is devise this catalyst for the first time that allows these two small molecules to come together to make a plastic,

Gregory Benford

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

Allan Zaremberg

I think if you look at most polling, Californians want their taxes on gas to go toward improving the transportation system, not toward something that might marginally improve carbon emissions.

Steve Burton

Frederick citizens vote on this, but it has a big impact on the entire Carbon Valley.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Ma Jun

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

Norman Baker

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

David Sherman

Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

Jane Lauder

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

Ivor Heerden

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

Firman Gani

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

Craig Venter

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

Allison Teeters

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Bruce Lipton

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Gary Linden

We are not mixing our chemicals in Orange County in a tank next to million-dollar homes.

Erich Roeckner

Our research pointed to rapid global warming and the shifting of climate zones. Our climate models predict warmer and drier summers for Europe, with warmer and wetter winters.

Ronnie Mamoepa

Our principal objective remains the need to create a climate for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe so that the Zimbabwean people can speak through the ballot.

Jacqueline McGlade

Our resilience is quite low in the face of climate change,

Fred Taylor

The $64,000 question about the climate is why is it so different? Why is it so hot and why is the pressure so high?

George Taylor

The Antarctic is really a puzzle. A lot more research is needed to understand the degree of climate and ice trends in and around the Antarctic.

Jim Sweeney

I think we are entering a watershed era where we can expect high levels (of oil prices) not just for a transitory period, but for an extended period. We are still dominated by the traditional sources of energy. If you want to deal with global climate change, you must come to grips with oil used in transportation and coal used for electricity generation.

Margaret Beckett

It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the world can respond to climate change.

Mike Nichols

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Duane Grant

Idaho is perfect because of our climate. We have a drier climate and we can then supply dry straw for the first plant.

Peter Gleckler

That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for decades after the event. We found that volcanic effects on sea level can persist for many decades.

Tobias Just

I don't expect a major crash in Europe, but there will be a cooling down in many markets.

David McKeown

From what we know at this point, there's no evidence that the cooling tower was not properly maintained.

Josh Stiles

I think (the GDP and ECI figures) will tell the market that the economy is not cooling much and that wage pressures are building.

Fred Kohout

We can enable customers to provide more services within the same space, power and cooling that they have today.

Antony Gormley

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

John Gantz

We think the sudden reversal of expectations was only partly the result of cooling thoughts about the future. The rest was a result of statistical variability in the sample polled as we indicated it might be last month.

Michael Lamb

You'll cut 20 percent or more off your heating or cooling bills.

Ted Cruz

Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

Jacques Chirac

It is now time for our partners to make equivalent proposals in a spirit of give and take, in agriculture as well as in manufacturing and services.

Alvin Sykes

Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing.

Terry Zwigoff

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

William Reinsch

It does seem like they're unloading this in the equivalent of a fire sale.

Robert Greenblatt

I think it would be the equivalent of an X rating if it were going in front of the MPAA.

Kathleen Hanna

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Charles Schalliol

Given the needs of the state and the jobs this creates, how could the state pass this up. As the governor has said, this is the equivalent of winning the lottery. And do we want to tear up the check?

Joel Edgerton

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Adrienne Shelly

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

Robin Roberts

I think that number's high, ... I think the schools are safer than that shows.

Gabrielle Giffords

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

David Richards

We're trying to make it safer all the time but motorsport is dangerous.

Jose Diaz

We thought it would be safer for him being that it was in the 44, ... We thought it would be safer.

Jane MacDonald

Whether it's instinctive or whether or not it was just the way the wind was blowing, it seems that they somehow feel safer here.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.