Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pelosi

Regardless of what the president may say on Tuesday night, the Republican budget is an alarming story. It includes policies that increase the deficit by nearly $300 billion, heaping mountains of debt on our children.

Paula Ghedini

Particularly alarming for us is the fact that this is supposed to be a cease-fire.

Anne Bauer

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

J. Philippe Rushton

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

David Neeleman

Right now only 15 percent of costs are fuel-related. If costs double that has an effect, but it will be less on us than our competitors. It's not alarming right now.

Bruce Katz

Melanoma is really increasing at an alarming rate. Just 10 years ago, you had a 1 in 250 chance of developing malignant melanoma; now it's 1 in 70.

Alexandra Jacobs

That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,

Gregg Shotwell

That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.

John Peck

It is not clear from the evidence that Mr. Berarducci was doing anything more than backing up his truck to avoid a continued confrontation with Mr. Kimberly, which, it should be noted, Mr. Kimberly had initiated and in which he persisted by approaching Mr. Berarducci's truck a second time, ... There is not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that it was Mr. Berarducci's intent to harass, annoy, or alarm Mr. Kimberly.

Riki Lindhome

Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

David Currier

People need to understand that the money we put (at the Kingston site) now may go down the drain later,

Doug Williams

I think the slow draining in the Sammamish watershed had everything to do with the record rainfall we saw in those weeks.

Harold Pinter

I think the world is going down the drain if we're not very careful,

Mark Pudlow

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I've always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn't get easier. It's kind of a Band-aid, a little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

Todd Pinkston

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it.

Rupert Evans

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Craig Miller

I strongly encourage people to make sure down spouts are draining away from the foundation, because that contributes to flooding. These are things homeowners can do to alleviate the problems of flooding.

John Fox

I think I was too drained by then to get too high. All of us were pretty drained. There was a lot of emotion. I've never seen a game quite like that. There were as big a peaks and as big a valleys as you could have. It was as good a football game as I've ever been involved in.

Pat Camden

That was treated as an isolated incident ? that's the way it should have been treated. On the other hand, at Sox Park you get that reputation because it's on the South Side.

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

William Cole

I think that shows a side of his personality that this incident doesn't show,

LaNedra Carroll

I'd like to think it was an isolated incident because we've put the word out repeatedly.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

Bernard Parks

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident had occurred,

Larry Wachtel

If it's just one,' that's the whole premise. That this is not the first in a series, this one isolated incident and then we're on to better things. This is a miscalculation.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Michael Chertoff

Our role is not to repair the dikes. Our role is to step in if something happens.

Tony McCoy

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

Mitch Basefsky

There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.

Eric Rabe

Some other services may be slower as well, like repair or installation.

George Herbert

A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.

Lewis B. Smedes

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Lindsay Davenport

It was a tough match. I served well and didn't get a break, that was the important thing.

Thomas Morgan

I don't think we are well served by hammering away at the same issues. We try to look at a variety of issues.

Vickie Warehime

It is being investigated as a suspicious death.

Ted Denny

There are some very suspicious circumstances surrounding these fires.

Gail Collins

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Bill Forsyth

Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.

F. Stone

I'm suspicious of their story, ... They are not out of the woods in this one yet.

David Bloom

We are very suspicious of the U.S. market,

Catherine Tate

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

C. S. Lewis

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Dan Fellman

I think this is going to be a test for the studios,

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Anton LaVey

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Dennis Farina

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Danny Devito

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Earl Warren

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Behati Prinsloo

I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.

Bill Engvall

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.'

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Bethany Hamilton

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Bill Burr

I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

James Oliveira

He didn't wipe the water off the doors.

Deke Thompson

I already know I'm about to be a waterfall of tears.