Jim Matheson quote: "We ought to hold hearings and learn from this experience. The system failed at the beginning on the ground, and that resulted in an unacceptable loss of life and suffering. It was an unacceptable failure."

I strongly disagree with the conclusion that 44,000 tons of dangerous high level waste can be stored...
JIM MATHESON

Now more than ever it's not the time for Congress to be raising its pay,
JIM MATHESON

This is an industry, in many respects, that targets children, ... I'd like to get rid of it all toge...
JIM MATHESON

We learned in 2003 that the federal government was headed towards researching, funding, developing a...
JIM MATHESON

I believe wildlife will benefit as a result, ... finds the appropriate balance by both defending end...
JIM MATHESON

This bill will serve as a strong measure to prevent frivolous lawsuits.
JIM MATHESON

We've said let's ease our way into this and give people time to adjust.
JIM MATHESON

Instead of building and maintaining collaborative supplier strategies, Toyota's U.S. competitors see...
JIM MATHESON

What's also nice is that late in the game, Sam can throw a pitch that a batter hasn't seen yet. She ...
JIM MATHESON

Atmospheric testing was a dark period in our history for many Americans and questions about long-ter...
JIM MATHESON

The longer I'm in office, the tougher it is for anyone to make a competitive race,
JIM MATHESON

Clearly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't do its job. Now we have to find out why, and...
JIM MATHESON

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its...
JIM MATHESON

Never before in the history of sports has there been such an emphasis on public safety,
JIM MATHESON

There is no room for partisan grandstanding on this matter, ... If wrongdoing is confirmed it ought ...
JIM MATHESON

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most...
HANS MATHESON

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period...
HANS MATHESON

That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, yo...
HANS MATHESON

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ...
HANS MATHESON

Heaven would never be heaven without you.
RICHARD MATHESON

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....
RICHARD MATHESON

You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m...
TIM MATHESON

This is a great opportunity for smaller companies to get real protection for their valuable business...
BEN MATHESON

This price point helps make enterprise-quality technology affordable to a wider range of businesses....
BEN MATHESON

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners w...
BEN MATHESON

We've got to start spending money in other places,
RICHARD MATHESON

At the last meeting, I was opposed to the expenditures at the Police Department,
RICHARD MATHESON

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul...
RICHARD MATHESON

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity ...
TIM MATHESON

That which you believe becomes your world.
RICHARD MATHESON

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like...
RICHARD MATHESON

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because...
RICHARD MATHESON

Let this hell be our heaven.
RICHARD MATHESON

Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just ab...
RICHARD MATHESON

People are not punished for their deeds but by them
RICHARD MATHESON

Everything is mental,
RICHARD MATHESON

I couldn’t tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you...
RICHARD MATHESON

…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good...
RICHARD MATHESON

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to wit...
RICHARD MATHESON

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along wi...
RICHARD MATHESON

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well...
RICHARD MATHESON

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?
RICHARD MATHESON

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ul...
RICHARD MATHESON

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat...
RICHARD MATHESON

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn�...
RICHARD MATHESON

Chris:I forgive you.
Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband?
Chris: For being...
RICHARD MATHESON

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...
RICHARD MATHESON

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
RICHARD MATHESON

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw th...
RICHARD MATHESON

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer pos...
RICHARD MATHESON

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a pe...
RICHARD MATHESON

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Come out, Neville.
RICHARD MATHESON

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its ...
RICHARD MATHESON

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female box...
RICHARD MATHESON

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people...
RICHARD MATHESON

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our he...
RICHARD MATHESON

In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the livin...
RICHARD MATHESON

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And w...
RICHARD MATHESON

You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has ...
RICHARD MATHESON

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's a...
RICHARD MATHESON

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.<...
RICHARD MATHESON

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
RICHARD MATHESON

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing o...
RICHARD MATHESON

I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they be...
HANS MATHESON

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.
RICHARD MATHESON

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.
RICHARD MATHESON

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books...
RICHARD MATHESON

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the ...
RICHARD MATHESON

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he kn...
RICHARD MATHESON

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't belie...
RICHARD MATHESON

Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half t...
RICHARD MATHESON

Maybe I can do some writing then. The phrase made him sick. It had no meaning anymore. Like a word t...
RICHARD MATHESON

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you...
RICHARD MATHESON

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of fo...
RICHARD MATHESON

Steamboat's strength is not downhill, for lack of experience, but our athletes skied very well in th...
DUSTY MATHESON

All of the Steamboat athletes moved up from their start positions in both the downhill and super-G.
DUSTY MATHESON

As a whole, Steamboat athletes had a great week, and they skied well. Everyone competed at their hig...
DUSTY MATHESON

It seems that all the hard work these athletes have put into their season is paying off, and everyon...
DUSTY MATHESON

It felt good. I'm getting stronger each meet. It was nice (to win), but I wish Wes was better. He pu...
SEAN MATHESON

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS

I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS

Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH

Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY

If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON

I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, &#...
JIM CARREY

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD

I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...
JIM WEBB

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le...
JIM ROHN

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
JIM LOEHR

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar...
JIM FERGUS

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o...
JIM STURGESS

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ...
JIM DOYLE

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r...
JIM BROADBENT

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
JIM PATTISON

The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we...
JIM COSTA

We ought to hold hearings and learn from this experience. The system failed at the beginning on the ground, and that resulted in an unacceptable loss of life and suffering. It was an unacceptable failure.

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Jim Matheson

We ought to hold hearings and learn from this experience. The system failed at the beginning on the ground, and that resulted in an unacceptable loss of life and suffering. It was an unacceptable failure.

Jim Matheson

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