Wiped Quotations

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

What we're looking at used to be a huge forest, like you see across the way. The forest is completely wiped out. Hundred year old trees that were in here are gone. It took everything, it just took everything.

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

We've stood shoulder to shoulder with the president, but with this action, all the good that has been done has been wiped away.

The only number I care about is Babe Ruth's. Because as a left-handed hitter, I wiped him out. That's it. And in the baseball world, Babe Ruth's everything, right? I got his slugging percentage and I'll take his home runs and that's it. Don't talk about him no more.

must be wiped out from the map of the world.

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

Now the occupation is gone and all its remains and memories must be wiped out.

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... Let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

If we don't catch them, we shall kill them, ... These bandits are not able to permanently engage us because they will be wiped out. Now that they have invited us, I think they are going to find out that it was not a wise decision.

I got the ball and calmly got off the mound and just wiped my hand slowly across my face. It's so rare (to see a ball called), because one knows you can't put your hand in your mouth. How can he think I'd do that?

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

I founded the free software movement, a movement for freedom to cooperate. Open source was a reaction against our idealism. We are still here and the open-source people have not wiped us out.

He wiped it off because he knew immediately that it was only supposed to be saliva or perspiration.

He wiped it completely off and put the next game up there, and that was it. We came in one day, and it was all gone, and he gave the 'One Game at a Time' speech.

He tells us, no matter what happens after, it gets wiped off.

He doesn't have anything left. He was wiped out a long time ago. People just refuse to believe it. Including Dubin.

The people were not ready for that kind of impact -- not that anybody could be, ... It was far larger than they ever dreamed it would be. It wiped out virtually all their infrastructure.

We too are ashes as we watch and hear The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise, Of one whose promised thoughts of other days, Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed, The service record of his youth wiped out, His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.

Huge volumes of sand have been wiped off the beach. The beach has had a dramatic vertical elevation change. It wiped the beach flat.

He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow across his nose, and (Dreckman) called it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.

Katrina totally wiped out New Orleans, ... The dealerships that were impacted are still under water. People can't even take delivery. In that part of the country, you've got a real problem.

It concerns me. We can be wiped aside in the interest of a larger developer.

I thought we were going to get wiped when we were down 14-0.

I think their records should all be wiped out.

I think the arbitrator chose to accept not only the Eagles' version of the evidence, but I think he went even further and pieced the evidence together in a way that it really didn't involve. He describes all of the events leading up to the suspension, but ignored the fact that Terrell was a model citizen from the week he was gone in training camp until Nov. 3. If you view, as (Bloch) did, the one week (Reid) sent (Owens) home as a form of discipline, that wiped out all prior conduct.

It goes without saying, we start all over, we start from scratch. It's unfortunate that what took five years to build was wiped away with one season.

I think that was real big. I was bleeding and they wiped me up real quick and stopped the bleeding for about eight seconds and I was able to get my free throws. I went back (for stitches) and Billy just came in and played great basketball. He picked it up where I left off.

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

I was listening to it on the radio coming into Lincoln, Kansas, and I thought Nixon was doing a great job. Then I saw the TV clips the next morning, and he ... didn't look well. Kennedy was young and articulate, and ... wiped him out.

Rebounding was the sole key to the game. We got wiped out in the rebounding stats.

St. Bernard Parish is toast now. It's just been wiped out. If you're ever going to instigate something like this, now is the time to put those plans on the table and discuss the option.

Jim Sensenbrenner is once again deciding to abandon his fellow Americans in their time of need. This proposal would simply allow those citizens wiped out by Hurricane Katrina to file for bankruptcy under the old law, making it easier for these families to get back on their feet after this disaster. Apparently, Congressman Sensenbrenner doesn't think we should lend a helping hand to these families.

Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of ever-expanding reasons, ... Jury assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards for mental anguish and punitive standards.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Well, we got wiped out in Camille, but we rebuild. We love it here. And we'll rebuild again.

We've been emotionally wiped out. We're not in the same situation as the people that are in those shelters. But as far as trying to win a football game ...

We were investigating that yesterday afternoon when a 19-year-old white female came in - she was one of the witnesses - and basically said our suspect, Michael Evans, shot (Price) and wiped the gun clean. The witness came forward on her own after being threatened by the suspect.

We don't have to shore (the company) up. That debt is wiped out, ... Our shareholder value is about $500 million and we have almost no debt. So this transaction is not a financial burden to us.

The explosion wiped out the language. That's how big it was. But we're trying to get these people to speak again, by digging.

We were wounded, we weren't totally wiped out. We've still got infrastructure here that doesn't exist anywhere else in the country. That gives us some advantages.

We thought that instead of taking this to Hollywood, how about taking Hollywood to the churches? When we looked at the technology, you can have a great screening with digital projectors and surround sound. You don't need a movie theater. So we started asking people and screening the movie for pastors, and after they saw it and wiped away a tear, they said they would love to show it to their congregations.

To them it wasn't a race issue, but their poverty that got them. It wasn't the hurricane that wiped out New Orleans, but the flooding caused when the levy broke, and the poor were in the bottom of the bowl.

Without these protections, it is likely that many of the advances of the past few decades would be wiped out by new barriers to voting.

This seems to be the direction the city's taking. Watching it get wiped out like it's a bad disease is very disheartening. It's not just the club scene, it's also the arts scene that's being squeezed out by this rampant, merciless rent situation.

We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water.

This tells us that something wiped out enough oxygen so that most species died out.

We cannot begin to quantify the potential damage in terms of gross domestic product, but a realistic scenario might be GDP declines in the tens of percent, ... In the case of slower growing economies such as Europe or Japan, a decade's economic growth could be wiped out.

Twenty-one percent of West Virginians are not connected to water, 45 percent are not connected to sewer. I cannot live with those statistics, I want them reduced and then wiped out completely.

We're going to be prepared for anything. The slate's been wiped clean for everyone at this point. It's been proven in our conference that anyone can beat anyone and we have to be ready for anything.

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired

And those containers is what did the damage. they came out of the port, swept through here with the storm surge, and just wiped out everything that was in front of them - just like a bulldozer.

There's people that have the ability to repay. They go into bankruptcy. They go into Chapter 7. Everything would be wiped clean. Somebody else would pick up for them. They're not paying their bills.

There's no way I would have won the title - I would have been wiped off the floor in the quarter-finals by my fellow Aussie Anthony Ricketts.

I spent two years? salary fighting the first fight, and that?s $36,000 a year times two. It?s definitely not any fun anymore. My funds are gone. This thing has wiped me out. . . . And I?m not going to dip into the kids? college fund.

I've been told (an audit) can cost up to $10,000. That is a substantial burden. That could be an entire program for a year that gets wiped out.

Things that we never even think twice about going to our kitchen or down to the grocery store to get, that was wiped out in just a blink of an eye, and we felt the need to step in and do what we could.

The SAE chapter at Tulane was completely wiped out and we're connected to a lot of people in Louisiana and Mississippi, so we really wanted to help.

The slate has been wiped clean and every local authority will have their chance to make its case.

The thing that separates college basketball, many times, is just the emotion. I know I'm wiped out.

Predatory lending is like a cancer that needs to be wiped out. Congressional programs that would roll back state laws are going in the wrong direction.

Predatory lending is a cancer that should be wiped out. We've reached a new stage in the debate over predatory lending laws. It's clear that state laws improve substantially on federal law and protect people who would otherwise be in danger of losing thousands of dollars - or even their homes.

Raleigh told me a bloody pen and a bloody beer bottle had been wiped off and taken inside,

probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out.

A couple of years ago, it was a surprise attack, and they really wiped out Toy R Us with loss-leader pricing, to create a lot of traffic.

Some people think there have always been elk in the Missouri Breaks. Well there were at one time and then they were wiped out. Hunters have taken it upon themselves over the past 50 or 60 years to restore animals to the area.

Now its crucial for the Bush Administration to implement the strongest remedies possible -- even stronger on slabs than those recommended by the ITC -- to prevent further damage from a crisis that has already sent 26 companies into bankruptcy and wiped out 13 million tons of American steelmaking capacity,

DDT almost wiped out the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle before the 1960s.

Destroyed it. Wiped it out. It's not there.

A number of villages in Kashmir were wiped out ... We are facing difficulties in reaching those areas as most of the roads there are either blocked or wiped out by the landslides,

As Craig Littlepage apparently pointed out, that slate is wiped clean.

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

Banners were flying. People had applauded for half an hour. He just broke down and wiped his eyes on the only thing available - the yellow stage curtain.

This almost starts a new season, ... We've had our preseason and now we're going to the real season. The 0-3 is wiped out and our goal still is to win the league championship.

This investment has been wiped out today. It's been wiped out on this Christmas Eve. We have nothing.

They taught us a very important varsity bowling lesson that day. They wiped the floor with us.

A lot of the departments down there have been wiped out, ... There's no 911 for us.

You don't get a rest before shooting. There's nowhere to take a break. People on TV will see it as a dinky little downhill before the shooting and think, 'Well, it's easy.' But you've just climbed up a kilometer up to there and you're totally wiped out by the time you get to the point.

This litigation issue has raised the notion in everybody's mind that if anything happens to affect their BlackBerry service, they're wiped out.

It's just a miracle to see this kid. He would give a lot of kids hope that have trouble. In sixth through eighth grade he was just wiped out with all the seizures and medication. He was just trying to cope with life. To see where he is now is just amazing.

It is up to the state and local folks to exercise for catastrophic events when the first responders are wiped out.

It's a different group, (and) something a lot of people didn't think we could do. It's pretty amazing. We're pretty proud of it, and we also know that our work is not done. At this point, everybody is 0-0. The slate has been wiped clean. Playoffs are a fresh start and you have to win two games out of three.

It's sad. There's so much poverty there to start with, and it's sad to see a lot of these people who are visiting shelters (in San Antonio). It's sad to see, because these people didn't have a lot to start with. Now they have even less. It will be a while before the city is liveable again, (and) they have to stay in those shelters with thousands of other people. They may be stuck in shelters for a year or so. A lot of people were wiped out. And people will have to start all over again. It's rough for a lot of people in New Orleans.

Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!

Consumers should check they are getting the best package from their provider for their lifestyle. For example, for the 27% of consumers that carry a balance the most important considerations are the interest rate and charges, because any perks will be wiped out by these.

It's a measure of how complicated the world has gotten since 9-11, when thousands were wiped out. Just because statistics tell us that violent crime is actually down, that doesn't mean that people aren't scared.