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MIKE MCCURRY The next step is for the state and federal resource agencies to develop a course of action for resto...
FRANK JEZIORO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.
LUTHER STRANGE The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the progr...
BRENDAN GILL A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.
KEN POIROT Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?
TAMAR COHEN Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the ab...
RITA MAE BROWN Success is never eluded to one who acts with wisdom,courage & positive state of mind. Wisdom provide...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just as war is more the absence of love than the presence of hate, and darkness is the absence of li...
UNKNOWN Frankly, a lot of semiconductor stocks are priced to perfection and in the absence of really positiv...
ERIC ROTHDEUTSCH Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Cl...
RUSSELL PEARCE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple fede...
PERIANNE BORING There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The federal standards are simply not good enough. If we can't get the federal government to act, the...
GINA MCCARTHY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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GARY F EVANS... Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Positive earnings reports combined with an absence of negative ones could be enough to get the marke...
JEFFREY BENTON The positives are that we have a Rooney Rule. We have a league that is not in a state of denial, but...
CYRUS MEHRI The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
-Ian Fleming
SWAPNA RAJPUT So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mandatory scheme was innovative.
IAN MACGILL The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are th...
BERNARD SIEGEL Rise baby rise. Don't let the bad things happening in your life...keep you down. Bring the warrior o...
TIMOTHY PINA Positive action, positive impart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Positive attitude, positive action.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
SHIV KHERA We favor state control over federal bureaucracy. The needs in Mississippi are vastly different than ...
JENNY MANLEY Positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Sentiment is not too positive and people are quite cautious ahead of the Federal Open Market Committ...
ALEX WONG No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?
GERRY ADAMS To attract positive energy in your life, be positive in thoughts and action.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opport...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a sout...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... North Dakota spends zero dollars on alcohol prevention. The money comes from the federal government ...
LEE ERICKSON Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON Both state and federal support is critical to building a real ethanol industry. Real action is neede...
DAN KAMMEN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I want to assure . . . (that) the state and federal agencies are coordinating their efforts,
MARK UDALL The disconnect between federal and state law puts the city in an awkward position. If you get involv...
HELEN HOLMES PEAK One must inculcate virtue of positive vision.Positive vision enrich one with self efficacy. Self eff...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Positive thoughts = positive energy = positive action... It's the lather, rinse, repeat for a health...
WILLIAM PAISLEY We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal sy...
BARRY MCCAFFREY My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
LENNOX LEWIS For everything we do, we are planting seeds
SOTONYE ANGA If the federal judge wants the agencies to re-do their studies, that's one thing. But he should not ...
DOUG CALLAWAY Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to...
AMIT RAY Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirem...
BOB BARR If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to compleme...
JAN BREWER When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Right now, I think state and local governments are frustrated with the inaction of the federal gover...
JOHN TRASVIñA In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
DALAI LAMA You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
KOLLONTAI ALEXANDRA We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER These positive trends underscore the economic growth we are experiencing across the state.
DIANE RATH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
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IAN JACKSON I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
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