Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Johnstone

Simply put, Mr. Holt took an unnecessary risk and drowned in rough water off Cheviot Beach,

Calvin Jillson

Since there are no candidates, it's very quiet, and unusual voices get heard when they might have otherwise been drowned out.

Jupiter Hammon

Riches and honours which drown the greater part of mankind, who have the gospel, in perdition, can be little or no temptations to us.

Jim Ellis

I can't see that having a huge impact on the drowning fatalities in Maryland. It would be a significant loss of personal freedom.

Jeff Banks

One man down the road said he tried desperately to get his wife into the attic. The man got in the attic, but his wife fell back down and drowned right there in front of him.

Zig Ziglar

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Douglas Coupland

When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

Laurie Garrett

What killed people during the outbreak in 1918 was not a weak immune system. An over-response from their own immune system known at ARDS killed them. They drowned in their own fluid.

Source Unknown

You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Dean Kamen

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Elizabeth May

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,

Thomas Moore

Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.

Donald Barthelme

The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Mason Cooley

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Rob Kampia

I view NORML as a small and shrinking dinosaur. NORML's time has come and gone.

Richard Garnett

he's not going to be a pushover or a shrinking violet.

Edith Cavell

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Zig Ziglar

Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.