So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ~By Robert Fripp ~
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. ~By Colin Quinn ~
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. ~By Emanuel Cleaver ~
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. ~By Dennis Hastert ~
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending. ~By Neil Simon ~
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. ~By Terry Gross ~
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. ~By Traian Basescu ~
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. ~By John Woolman ~
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. ~By Rick Renzi ~
Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending. ~By Michael O'Donoghue ~
When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it. ~By Adam Jones ~
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise. ~By Craig L. Thomas ~
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. ~By Susan Taylor ~
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year. ~By Tom Tancredo ~
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. ~By Tom Hooper ~
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~By Ben Nelson ~
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ~By Robert Dale Owen ~
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ~By Harold Kushner ~
I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ~By Steve Almond ~
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. ~By Albert Finney ~
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. ~By Kit Carson ~
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~By Saint Augustine ~
As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. ~By Charles Foster Bass ~
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ~By Douglas Horton ~
It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work. ~By Mary McDonnell ~
You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen. ~By Michael Bloomberg ~
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ~By David Leavitt ~
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. ~By J. D. Hayworth ~
I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling. ~By Joan Severance ~
The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years. ~By Chaka Fattah ~
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ~By John Irving ~
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. ~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ~By Margaret Mahy ~
Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. ~By Carrie P. Meek ~
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ~By Thomas E. Mann ~
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters. ~By Charlie Norwood ~
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. ~By Orson Scott Card ~
I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it. ~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. ~By Charles Haughey ~
This way of life is worth defending. ~By George W. Bush ~
Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. ~By Ben Affleck ~
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. ~By John Keats ~
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available. ~By Thomas Keller ~
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ~By Alice Hoffman ~
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. ~By Bernard Berenson ~
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. ~By Dennis Hastert ~
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year. ~By Judd Rose ~
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. ~By Stockwell Day ~
Being is like pretending. ~By Mira Sorvino ~
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ~By Albert Einstein ~
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ~By Johnny Isakson ~
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ~By John Ruskin ~
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ~By Rachel Maddow ~
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. ~By Christina Aguilera ~
You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there. ~By Knute Rockne ~
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. ~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While' ~By Angie Stone ~
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. ~By Patricia Ireland ~
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. ~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ~By Chaim Potok ~
Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring. ~By John Boehner ~
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. ~By Bob Woodward ~
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit. ~By Kit Williams ~
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ~By Doris Lessing ~
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ~By Helen Dunmore ~
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. ~By Gerry Adams ~
Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government. ~By Peter DeFazio ~
In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. ~By John Skow ~
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert. ~By Robert Fripp ~
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. ~By Charles de Lint ~
If we must die, we die defending our rights. ~By Sitting Bull ~
I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone. ~By Ken Curtis ~
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ~By Sydney Pollack ~
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? ~By Barry Goldwater ~
The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment. ~By Dave Rowntree ~
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ~By Thomas Jefferson ~
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget. ~By Tim Scott ~
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. ~By Richard O'Brien ~
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ~By Henry Lawson ~
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. ~By Alan Autry ~
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. ~By Jones Very ~
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. ~By Michael Bloomberg ~
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. ~By Pauline Hanson ~
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. ~By Pearl S. Buck ~
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. ~By Emanuel Celler ~
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it. ~By George Murray ~
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ~By Vince Cable ~
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ~By Howard Staunton ~
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. ~By Patricia Ireland ~
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together. ~By Oscar Arias Sanchez ~
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. ~By Denzel Washington ~
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. ~By Keith Haring ~
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real. ~By Ali A. Saleh ~
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation. ~By Patty Murray ~
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those. ~By John Frame ~
We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security. ~By Lawrence Korb ~
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