Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
~By Nancy L. Johnson ~
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
~By Maria Montessori ~
We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
~By Nicole Sullivan ~
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
~By W. Eugene Smith ~
Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
~By Lauren Bush ~
We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
~By Alexander Haig ~
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
~By Keith Henson ~
Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.
~By Simon Cowell ~
It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.
~By Jim Evans ~
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
~By Robert Fisk ~
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
~By Susan Sontag ~
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
~By Ernest Istook ~
It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.
~By Merle Haggard ~
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
~By Rose Tremain ~
The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
~By Vito Fossella ~
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
~By Dean Koontz ~
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
~By William James ~
There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
~By Bill Richardson ~
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
~By William Petersen ~
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
~By Peter Snell ~
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~By David Sedaris ~
A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.
~By Jeremy London ~
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
~By Vito Fossella ~
I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
~By Chris Wedge ~
I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
~By David Bowie ~
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
~By Brad Henry ~
While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
~By Tony Blair ~
What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
~By Martin Bashir ~
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
~By Michael Isikoff ~
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 ~
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
~By Frank Murkowski ~
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
~By David F. Houston ~
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
~By John Berger ~
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
~By Bobby R. Inman ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Always sing below your potential.
~By Nellie Melba ~
The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
~By Edna Ferber ~
We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
~By John Hoeven ~
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
~By Frank Church ~
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
~By Dick Wolf ~
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
~By Potter Stewart ~
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
~By Phil Ochs ~
We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
~By Brian Griese ~
With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.
~By Julius Erving ~
The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.
~By Greg Ginn ~
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
~By Jack Scalia ~
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
~By Walter Lang ~
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
~By Robert Trout ~
We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
~By Louis Freeh ~
Value people on their potential, not on their history.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
~By Mark Udall ~
I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
~By Geoff Davis ~
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
~By Anne Campbell ~
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