Bases Quotations

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Coach Bo Pelini and coach Carl Pelini are two coaches I talk to on a regular basis, especially coach Bo. They are coaches I feel elevated my game.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

I connect with people on a daily basis.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield.

We stranded a lot of runners. We had the bases loaded in the first and didn't do anything.

We stranded a lot of base runners tonight. Pat (Gonzales) finally got that big hit with the bases loaded.

We stole bases like there was no tomorrow and put guys in scoring position. We did a real good job of running the bases. They didn't hold us very tight.

When we had the bases loaded, no outs and were down 9-7, I thought we'd get the two runs. We just didn't execute.

Usually in a game like that you hope for one good shot against a guy like that and we got it. With the bases loaded and nobody out you expect to get something out of it. We couldn't have asked for anything better with our heart of the order coming up. We had the people we wanted coming to the plate.

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

We're still searching for our identity. We've got an entirely new team out there. We don't have a dominant pitcher. We don't have any home run hitters. We've got a little speed. But we've got to be able to run the bases and play a little small-ball to be successful.

We have so many military here. This is our way to show our appreciation to our forces. We like to consider ourselves as the military's teams with all the bases we have in San Diego. It's an honor. Every Sunday we have the troops out at the ballpark. This is something we do with honor.

When he gets a feel, that's when he's going to go. Stealing bases is all about rhythm. Once you get your rhythm, it's easier to steal a base.

We were a very inconsistent hitting team last year. We left a lot of runners on base because we couldn't get the hits at the right time. We've also got to do better on defense, especially when the other teams are stealing bases on us.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

There are persistent reports that Leandro Aragoncillo has been paid by some popular personalities here in this country. We would like to investigate whether there are bases or evidence to prove these reports.

We're playing pretty sound, fundamentally. We're going from first to third when we need to. We're picking up big runs. We're running the bases good. We're doing a lot of little things right.

We ran the bases well and hit well.

We ran ourselves out and took the bats out of some hands in a few innings. We made outs at bases we shouldn't have, trying to be too daring. If we would have played a little smarter we could have ended the game in five and saved some pitching. We wanted to take some chances going to second not third and home and we made some obvious misreads.

We held them until the fourth, when they loaded the bases off a hit and two errors. We ended up shutting them down. We opened up the sixth-inning batting all the way around with eight hits and scoring 14 runs.

At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.

We're good at situational baseball. And running the bases well is more important offensively than anything we do.

We're gonna be aggressive on the bases until the game is over. If we get thrown out because we're aggressive, that's okay.

The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

When I come back, I want to be able to help this ballclub, ... Not just be a body on the field. So I've still got to run the bases (in practice), and I've still got to do a couple more things.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

When they walk the bases loaded we don't have much left to do.

Seven days off, and I come in with the bases loaded. I made the one out, and that 2-2 pitch was close. The 3-2 pitch was away. The inning happened too quickly. You have to make your pitches.

She's pretty much a no-nonsense type of person when it comes to working out. But in terms of leadership and being a team captain, she'll do things like designate some days as freaky Friday and wacky Wednesday to pick up the esprit de corps. She hits all bases on leadership.

She's covered all the bases wonderfully. She works well with both staffs.

She did a good job on the bases when she got on.

She is smart on the bases and aggressive. I encourage my team to be aggressive.

She looks carefully and critically at every issue and bases her vote not on partisanship but on the right decision, and that's probably the most valuable trait for something as important as protecting our nation,

Most teams love seeing the bases loaded, nobody out. We seem to have a little trouble with it. We fought in the game, though. We had other opportunities, perhaps, to do some things. We just couldn't break through.

Military bases were damaged that need to be repaired. Those levees (in New Orleans) need to be repaired, so the Army Corps of Engineers is going to need money, ... There's highway money that's going to be needed for all the interstates that have been damaged. There are damages to the wildlife refuges down there.

Mr. Oxley bases his legislation on the substance of the arguments, not on political contributions or social acquaintances.

One inning she walked a couple batters and loaded the bases with one out. Then she struck out the next two. She was really it today.

One time we had the bases loaded with no outs (in the second) and didn't score because we couldn't get the ball out of the infield and another time we look at two third strikes with a runner on third. It's tough for any team to score when you don't take the bat off your shoulder.

My concern is that we're growing, and we've got to try to establish some vision for where we want the city to go with the growth - and we've also got to try to strengthen up the bases from which we're beginning to grow. We've got to get the infrastructure sound. We've got to go back and pick up some of these things where we've regressed so that we can provide a vision, and we can work from a solid place.

Must we accept that the only alternatives are to either incrementally improve our current patchwork of identification documents, drivers licenses, Social Security cards and the like, or alternatively, move to some centralized federal data bases that aggregate all sorts of privacy-sensitive information,

Right now, China is pushing for the strategy of developing its western region, rejuvenating the old industrial bases in the Northeast, promoting the rise of the central region and encouraging faster development of the eastern region,

Personally, in my home, the district in central New York, the Air National Guard base, not 5 years ago, the commandant came through and said, This is one of the sorriest looking bases I have ever seen.

I was shooting for a more important number -- 100 runs. It means I've been getting on base. Stealing 50 bases is a great accomplishment. I'm pleased with my work ethic to get here.

I wouldn't say that's what he bases his game on, but he has good athletic ability and good sense of how to use it.