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NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Any conversation with Smith turned up at least one bit of human behavior which could not be justifie...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandru...
ROSEMARY MAHONEY Right now, Liberia is a country on life support,
ALAN DOSS Stick around for at least another year, Smith.
KIRK ARCHIBEQUE He may or may not get out someday. If he does it won't be for at least 20 years.
RICHARD GALE We'll be back. We will not forget Liberia.
DON STEPHENS He should be on his third Oscar by now, and that might not be enough,
JULIA ROBERTS The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana
AFRICAN PROVERB If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VOLTAIRE I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.
GEORGE HORTON It does not provide a great backdrop, at least for now.
BARRY HYMAN In a developing country like Ghana, the issue about standardized testing is not different, because a...
RAYMOND OBENG Others tried to tell me not to fight like that, but it wasn't until Danny Smith came along that I st...
FERNANDO VARGAS We still tell Jonathan stories. It's not a taboo subject. But there are times it's very intense. We ...
WILLIAM ETTERLING Right now, Liberia is a country on life support. But this is the best opportunity it has had for dec...
ALAN DOSS Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK These beads are just a little too plastic. We don't do anything that is not at least glass.
SCOTT TEPPER We didn't get here overnight, we're not going to change it overnight. We at least want to make inqui...
CHUCK TODD We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but ...
PHIL JACKSON When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a dif...
RICK PITINO When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country … it revealed one...
DANNY GLOVER When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country … it revealed one.
DANNY GLOVER We shot ourselves in the foot. And we're not converting (third downs).
JOE DAVIS There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways...
DAVID CARRADINE One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with ...
AMANDA HEARST My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like,...
SHANE SMITH The people of Liberia can be proud that they have successfully participated in this important step f...
FRANCES JOHNSON This is not their place. In time they will pass. Ghana was here when they came. When they go, Ghana ...
MAYA ANGELOU The companies really fit, ... [Salomon's] strengths are where Smith Barney is not strong and Smith B...
SANFORD WEILL From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and th...
BIBLE It hurts, but it's really not a devastating blow. At least not yet.
DANA JOHNSON Just as Karl Marx did not attribute what he saw as the detrimental effects of a market economy to th...
THOMAS SOWELL I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least o...
ADAM SILVER As far as him being our No. 1 until he overtakes Rod Smith, that's just not going to happen. That's ...
JAKE PLUMMER Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she...
TOM BYRNE Simon had originally conceived 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' as a TV show not as a movie.
DOUG LIMAN We had Tristan (Smith), solid but not great; we had Bush, solid but not great; we had Carl (Davis), ...
FRANK SCELFO When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ If you're cheating, the less people know about it, the better. You're not going to tell your driver....
DALE EARNHARDT JR The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet
ALISTAIR HORNE So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole.
LORETTA YOUNG Least of all Bruce Golding himself, who is the most indecisiveness leader any party can have. Is not...
COLIN CAMPBELL We want the morning show to be at least as good, if not better, than the radio station. The morning ...
DON HOWE Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done ...
CHARLES L. ALLEN I thought well, why not? At least we'll have someone to talk to if we have pain or misery or whateve...
DAVID JAMES There was no breakthrough, but at least the negotiations were not disastrous.
DANNY YATOM We can't control our genes, at least not yet. But we can control exposing our genes to the things th...
CARLA WOLPER Now at least they have ranked [UF] up to second. And that's not to put any pressure on Billy. He's g...
RICK STANSBURY That's at least an interesting notion. Then you're not dealing with the politicking.
RUSS GRANIK She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is for what your own hands have sent before and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the...
QURAN The third judge and the referee will be from the Philippines. At least they're not from Cambodia, or...
RICK NOBLE I was not too happy with the bogey but these things happen. It's only my third bogey of the week. I'...
DAVID PARK Were it not for the third cars, the Friday session would just be dire.
PAT SYMONDS Remember that we're only on our third record, which is not really a lot. We live in the era of trilo...
CHRIS MARTIN ... We already have two changes in the secondary. I'd like not to make a third one.
JIM DALEY The two biggest things in the game are not staying on the field on third down, and not getting off t...
MIKE TICE With Kodak and Fuji already in so many outlets, there might not be room for a third player. These ot...
SHAW WU I think Ghana is not ready for online learning now since access to internet is huge problem for most...
RAYMOND OBENG Smith & Wesson set a standard, ... We consider it a floor, not a ceiling.
BRUCE REED McAfee does not endorse, at this time, third-party patches.
CRAIG SCHMUGAR The only thing I did in Afghanistan was farming. I did not do anything else in the country.
ZAHIR SHAH Today our team did not play like our team should and Ghana were more motivated and that made the dif...
ABDOULAYE SARR When (Smith) got that third one, it was very big for us. He was controlling the inside. But my littl...
DOUG ERNY I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception...
TIBOR FISCHER Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.
JAMES S.A. COREY At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At lea...
CRAIG MACTAVISH If you are not misunderstood at least once a day then you are not working hard enough
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.
KAYE GIBBONS Smith could 'read' the rocks on the surface. He realized that it was not random, that earth's proces...
TRACY GREGG I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization li...
JAMIE DIMON It's highly likely there will be at least a third train and more. The question is ... when is the op...
IAN CRAIG She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to...
JOHN BURROUGHS I'm not the least bit shy about suggesting things to my players that make a lot of sense. I don't th...
JIM TRACY I'm not against conspiracy theories as a whole, but they have to be at least somewhat credible. I gu...
MIKE CLOHERTY If not for the chief coming by, at least one of our stallions would be dead,
JOHN FULLER That was big. That last sack (by Cooks) and not getting at least a field goal. It was a great opport...
JACK BICKNELL Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the publ...
T.S. ELIOT In season it's not uncommon for them to spend at least 40 hours a week, often 50 or 60 hours (on the...
MURRAY SPERBER But it's not. I think it looks like a Tudor cottage, at least from the outside.
ELAINE BROWN We knew it would take at least a year to build the kennel. We're getting close but we're not there y...
RODNEY COOLEY I'm angered, sickened and disgusted. The saddest part of it all is that I am not in the least bit su...
BRUCE BARKET Is the world coming to an end? No -- at least not today or tomorrow.
DALE MOHLER If I nurture the newness while I have it, perhaps, I won't lose it — at least not for something le...
JAN DENISE Abe is the least likely to be a pragmatist. But the costs are too high not to be pragmatic. They los...
RICHARD SAMUELS We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge ou...
WREN ELHAI The general public may not realize these gifted service member-musicians work full time at this. All...
RUTH EZELL The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL That hasn't been an issue, at least not yet.
JAMES MAHAR If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
CARTER BURWELL If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
MARGOT ASQUITH Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
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JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT