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Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously. Melissa Caldwell
asleep companies simply
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel. Nathan Kirsh
asleep fall question raise
What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch? Dennis Goldford
asleep beauty boy break castle courage court curse fairy frogs girl haunting hide hundred love magical royal tales worlds
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. Kate Forsyth
asleep believe fall
I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus. Shilpa Shetty
asleep people putting
We're not consistently putting people asleep when we need to. Tom Inman
asleep deal dreams gradually great life occurred spend
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?' Sue Monk Kidd
asleep blessed fell hands husband light meet visions
She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes. Nathaniel Hawthorne
asleep debate drab fall front people percent tv watching
Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary. Ralph Nader
blessed men miracle
The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here. Charles Caleb Colton
blessed beer bells
Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer... Charles Stuart Calverley
blessed eye fire
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear. Charles Spurgeon
blessed sunshine wings
When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings. Charles Spurgeon
blessed essence soul
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you. Charles Spurgeon
blessed needs care
There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us. Charles Spurgeon
blessed texas lucky
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be. Alan Bean
blessed has-beens
I have been blessed with working with the best in the business. Al Roker
blessed thinking space
So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. Aiden Wilson Tozer
fellowship doe purpose
God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
fell ran
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. Louise Bourgeois
fell loves power work
The one thing you know with Rico is he's going to work hard. He's going to do everything in his power to get better. He loves football. He kind of fell (into) track. Mike Wilson
fellow guy
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got. Lewis B. Hershey
fellow help learn rebuild start strategy tragedy train workers
We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this tragedy and help these workers start over. We must help our fellow Americans build new communities and new lives. James Hoffa
fellow higher liberties protecting responsibility
We have no higher responsibility to our fellow Americans than protecting the homeland. Our lives, our freedoms, our liberties are at stake. Bill Frist
fell
When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general. John Eisenhower
fell free last second
When it comes down to a last second shot, anything can happen. After the free throw, our assignments fell through and weren't executed properly. Tom Greene
fell game practice track trying
We're getting there, but we thought we were on track before and we fell off. We're just trying to come out and get better in practice every day and then come out and play every game like we've got something to prove. Ron Howard
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other. Charles Caleb Colton
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. Charles Dickens
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair. Charles Spurgeon
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had. Charles Spurgeon
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
husband wife adultery
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband. Charles Caleb Colton
husband lying heart
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. Charles Dickens
husband father book
But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness. Charles Spurgeon
husband grandmother air
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. Alan Bradley
husband father artist
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all. Alan Bennett
husband moments enjoy
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it. Akshay Kumar
husband ocean thinking
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it. Chris Cleave
husband grief heart
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. David McCullough
husband believe suffering
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering. Byron Katie
light sun life-is
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going. Charles Dickens
light alcohol cleaning
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens
light israel fire
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. Charles Caleb Colton
light moral sometimes
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm. Charles Caleb Colton
light heaven growth
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us. Charles Caleb Colton
light moral materials
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. Charles Caleb Colton
light opposites people
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens
light stage
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Charles Dickens
light doubt church
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. Charles Spurgeon
meetings attraction
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God Aiden Wilson Tozer
meeting people
We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen. Randy Nixon
meet people
We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day. Omar Epps
meetings staff year
We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry. Pat Schaumann
meeting
When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds. John Lackey
meet session training
We're going to meet up and have a training session before I go. David Davies
meet needs
We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded. Tim Collins
meet
We're doing everything we can to meet that goal. Amanda Brown
meet
We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important. Robert Worthy
visions-of-the-future amendments situation
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin
visions-of-the-future people release
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Barbara Jordan
visions-of-the-future community done
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future Daniel J. Boorstin
visions
Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere. Tom Shannon
visions-of-the-future glasses forever
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever. Julian Assange
visions-of-the-future trying figures
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. Nolan Bushnell
visions-of-the-future towers fields
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. John Betjeman
visions-of-the-future ipads expression
The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing. Tim Cook
visions-of-the-future issues flying-cars
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars. Joss Whedon