Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ~By Barack Obama ~
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ~By Marlo Thomas ~
But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more. ~By Valentino Rossi ~
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. ~By Jim Rohn ~
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. ~By Joe Scarborough ~
I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen. ~By Wally Schirra ~
The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers. ~By Erich Maria Remarque ~
We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country. ~By Brian Schweitzer ~
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ~By Jonathan Swift ~
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. ~By Dan Millman ~
I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship. ~By Mark Hamill ~
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands. ~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. ~By Laurel Clark ~
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. ~By John Bradshaw ~
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. ~By Robert Creeley ~
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations. ~By John O'Neill ~
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody. ~By Puff Daddy ~
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. ~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ~By Golda Meir ~
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. ~By John B. S. Haldane ~
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself. ~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter. ~By Mel Gibson ~
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline. ~By Ron Reagan ~
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. ~By William Golding ~
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ~By Harry S. Truman ~
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. ~By Pete Hamill ~
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. ~By Sylvia Browne ~
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. ~By David Remnick ~
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. ~By Thomas More ~
Time is flying never to return. ~By Virgil ~
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' ~By George W. Bush ~
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. ~By Dennis Nilsen ~
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. ~By Stephen Hawking ~
Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you. ~By Peter Criss ~
But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. ~By John James Audubon ~
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. ~By David Foster Wallace ~
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ~By Milton Friedman ~
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. ~By Fred Ward ~
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living. ~By Jeri Ryan ~
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. ~By Dudley North ~
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. ~By L. Neil Smith ~
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. ~By Hugh Mackay ~
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants. ~By Florence Henderson ~
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying. ~By Uri Geller ~
I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people. ~By Jane Horrocks ~
I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work. ~By Evan Dando ~
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. ~By Keith Henson ~
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. ~By Jon Voight ~
I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have. ~By Vin Diesel ~
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. ~By Bram Stoker ~
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? ~By Betty Buckley ~
I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft. ~By Leroy Chiao ~
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. ~By James Bovard ~
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. ~By Mason Cooley ~
I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh? ~By Margot Kidder ~
There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. ~By Umberto Eco ~
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. ~By Linda M. Godwin ~
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. ~By Frederick W. Smith ~
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ~By Orville Wright ~
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. ~By Joe Shuster ~
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. ~By Andrew Wyeth ~
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. ~By Jeffrey Bernard ~
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ~By Plato ~
I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. ~By Helen Reddy ~
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ~By June Jordan ~
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ~By George Orwell ~
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. ~By Terry Gilliam ~
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. ~By Jessica Tandy ~
He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that. ~By Joe Shuster ~
When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on. ~By Michael P. Anderson ~
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. ~By Bessie Coleman ~
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. ~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ~By David Antin ~
We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts. ~By Robert Crippen ~
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. ~By Reggie White ~
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ~By Willem Dafoe ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. ~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying. ~By Marcus Garvey ~
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ~By Max Lerner ~
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ~By F. M. Cornford ~
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ~By Mary Wilson Little ~
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. ~By Bill Hayden ~
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. ~By John Doolittle ~
There's hostility to lying, and there should be. ~By Bob Woodward ~
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ~By Johann Arndt ~
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access. ~By Vinton Cerf ~
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie. ~By Paul Begala ~
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally. ~By Antoine Fuqua ~
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ~By Penn Jillette ~
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' ~By Wilson Mizner ~
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. ~By Black Elk ~
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