Quotes 121 till 140 of 1788.
-
America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
Source: Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
-
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
-
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
-
America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
-
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
-
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
-
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
-
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
-
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
-
Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
-
An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
-
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
-
An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
-
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
-
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Source: Business Review, Volume 22 -
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
-
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
-
And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
-
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
All -bill famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)
