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Not sure what I'd so with a notebook other than swat flies. If I want a break I'd rather go down to Stage Harbor and talk boats.


Bernard Cornwell

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TAMARA ECCLESTONE Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine
KIMBERLY SHILENJE It's best, though, to get premises ID done early rather than wait.
DR. GEORGE TEAGARDEN Id go over frequently and visit with her.
BETTY B. GIBSON As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) If ID card is everything, what do ration-card stands for?
VIJAYRAJ BHATT If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier.
KEYSHMA.SOSA If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD We're hoping that he's well preserved, and that the ID will be rather easy.
BOB MANN If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and g...
EDWARD SNOWDEN The SWAT team is very important because it can make or break a win. If they are cheering and tauntin...
KATIE DAVIS I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG Id rather fail a million times than give up, for to fail again means to succeed once more but to giv...
MOE ZEE The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negativ...
RUSH LIMBAUGH ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have...
JOSEPH ANSANELLI Can I see some ID?"

"WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON...
ADAM REX if Beer was water-and i was a duck- id swim to the bottom and never come up- but Beer's not water an...
LAUREL CLIVE I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL Reading my thoughts is as close as you'd want to get to me, I can assure you, I swat them like flies...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL After a witness makes a positive ID, if the investigator says something that validates the ID before...
BRIAN CUTLER Have you ever used a fake ID?
JAY LENO That's what campaigns are for, to get the name ID out.
DOUG COLE Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncra...
GUY KAWASAKI People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on i...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN People are required to show a legal identity, their required to show a proof of age and citizenship,...
LARRY BUSH The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obt...
BILL FLORES Each material has its specific characteristics in which we must understand it if we want to use it. ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE They have no idea if that signature belongs to the real person because they don't know who the real ...
TREY AARON (The bars) aren't doing their part to make sure everybody's ID is real and that everyone drinking is...
ANDREW SPAHR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I am kind of perplexed by their argument, ... You have a federally mandated program, created with fe...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Name ID is not going to be enough for him this time.
KATON DAWSON The ID evidence was flawed.
BOB LONG With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Mini...
ANTY ZHENG With a population of over 1.3 billion, the issuance of RFID-tag-inlaid Resident ID cards by the Mini...
ANTY ZHENG You have to be careful what ID-IQs are used for, what gets tucked into them.
JAMES MITCHELL We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system.
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
PHILIP ROTH It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breat...
GILLES DELEUZE When they found her, they found her with her (nursing) ID. Her thoughts were that after the storm pa...
SHERYL TURNEY By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I e...
ANN TURNER One of the victims, she made ID off a photo lineup.
TOM SCHEBEN What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
LAURA DEKKER They asked if we knew anybody who had a nipple ring. I said that my brother did. I got his ID out of...
RINDA JEAN WILCOX IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE 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 They're more likely to compare each photo to their original memory and make a positive ID if there's...
BRIAN CUTLER My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card ...
KAREN EVANS Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD Where id was, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD We cannot divulge details yet and I am yet to consent to any. But if all falls into place, Id like t...
JASMINE TRIAS In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for vote...
PETE GALLEGO A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Showing your ID is a far cry from being searched for explosives.
CHARLES SLEPIAN We have scout teams who go out and ID where the birds are. And when we find birds using a field, we'...
HENRY SCOTT He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. [Lat., Id facere laus est quod dec...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heav...
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. The government are tightening up on ID for sales of tobacco and alcohol so I recommend that young pe...
ROBERT CLARK You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes.
GRIER WEEKS A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Fre...
GUY KAWASAKI Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
JOHNNY HART ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get t...
LISA CULLEN We are hoping that the public will bear with us and make their effort to bring the proper ID.
KAREN OSBORNE Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
JOHN MAYER If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre...
TRAVIS FIMMEL You go into their homes every night about 300 times a year for an hour, that tends to help your name...
JOE SCARBOROUGH That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Florida is already 98 percent in compliance with the requirements of the Real ID Act.
FRANK PENELA I don't think so. If you're a defensive coordinator and they want you, they're not going to give you...
JERRY GRAY We do not require ID for children because there are no children on the list. If it's a child, ticket...
CARRIE HARMON ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still ...
BRUCE SCHNEIER Until filing deadline, we'll be prepared to face a wealthy self-funder with statewide name ID. That'...
JASON MILLER Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA it's dangerous to your career to be identified as an ID proponent.
MICHAEL BEHE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.
JAN CALDWELL When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hisp...
ADAM COHEN murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
UNKNOWN I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fis...
EMERIL LAGASSE Checking of students' ID cards is not enough to ensure security, all bags must be checked as well.
HABIB RAHMAN I’m not sure I want to go to prom. I’m not sure I want to share you with anyone.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If...
CYNTHIA HAND I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something. Rather than asking me for my ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something, ... Rather than asking me for...
QUENTIN TARANTINO You always have a harder time if you have an incumbent who's reasonably popular. Anybody challenging...
TERRY JONES How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS [Jones] should have separated the issues and disagreed with the school board decision, but not rule ...
DAVID NAPIERSKIE Basically we call it caller ID on steroids. This is a great opportunity to leverage all of the techn...
ERIC DISHMAN Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.
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BERNARD MANNING I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on...
BERNARD HILL There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fa...
BERNARD LOVELL If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring wi...
BERNARD SUMNER Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
BERNARD SUMNER Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort...
BERNARD INGHAM A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE