In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
THOMAS PICKERING I don't think we received an eviction notice, and I don't think it's come to that point yet,
THOMAS PICKERING Over the years, we've taken steps to improve and build better embassies and to secure them. We conti...
THOMAS PICKERING There is no plan, and there is no proposal, and there is no idea of committing American forces in Co...
THOMAS PICKERING there are no signs of stress in the financial sector.
THOMAS PICKERING We believe we have developed a relationship with Russia that can sustain controversy, differences an...
THOMAS PICKERING We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, ... ...
THOMAS PICKERING Someone either waved or threw hand grenades at (a guard). He refused to open the gate. When the hand...
THOMAS PICKERING We ... believe that a military solution to Sri Lanka is not possible ... We are supportive of the No...
THOMAS PICKERING We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint cou...
THOMAS PICKERING We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint cou...
THOMAS PICKERING India is in great shape. It represents one of the most important long- term markets for Boeing.
THOMAS PICKERING Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.
PICKERING Mike requested a meeting with the full board of directors, and I was happy to oblige. Mike has not t...
DAVID PICKERING People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not t...
CHARLES PICKERING Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosi...
CHARLES PICKERING I believe that it's going to be a tremendous fund-raiser,
CHARLES PICKERING When we've got a group that's as enthusiastic as they are and that has the energy and desire to make...
CHARLES PICKERING The city has not yet committed to putting a millage on the ballot to support funding for the project...
CHARLES PICKERING What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things,” he said. “But what is happ...
CHARLES PICKERING I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he wa...
CHARLES PICKERING They accuse the Bush nominees of being out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls indicat...
CHARLES PICKERING I thought I was uncontroversial, and I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people th...
CHARLES PICKERING Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing t...
CHARLES PICKERING We need to understand the perspective of the other race, and we need to understand that compromise i...
CHARLES PICKERING I told him what he did was a heinous, reprehensible, despicable, dastardly act and that he was going...
CHARLES PICKERING There is no doubt that if Iraq torches oil wells there will be a huge amount of business for these c...
DAN PICKERING I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,
CHARLES PICKERING They turn people away at Geyser Falls because it's so popular.
BILLY PICKERING I wanted to create jobs so that my children could stay here in our community and work. People in the...
BILLY PICKERING I expect this development to provide jobs for our residents and have an impact on the continued deve...
BILLY PICKERING A popular fantasy is to suppose that flying machines could be used to drop dynamite on the enemy in ...
WILLIAM PICKERING Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're goi...
CHARLES PICKERING To accuse a white Southerner of being a racist is about the worst thing you can do, ... 60 Minutes.
CHARLES PICKERING Our gasoline system is not meant to handle everyone filing up their tank at the same time.
DAN PICKERING What happened to me
is not that important in the scheme of things,” he said.
“But what...
CHARLES PICKERING I knew in advance what they were going
to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that ...
CHARLES PICKERING Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and
told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're...
CHARLES PICKERING They accuse the Bush nominees of being
out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls in...
CHARLES PICKERING I thought I was uncontroversial, and
I thought I would just slide through. I naively told peop...
CHARLES PICKERING You have two conflicting forces. People might be concerned about what the attacks will do to Europe'...
DAN PICKERING I think we have as good a chance as anyone, but we're definitely not the favorites.
DAN PICKERING That was a big confidence boost.
DAN PICKERING That's important because if you shut them down according to a plan, then you can bring them back fas...
DAN PICKERING No news is bad news. Only 10 to 15 percent of (Gulf of Mexico) shut-in production is associated with...
DAN PICKERING We are still in the soap-opera phase where everyone is still wondering what is going on. The next 24...
DAN PICKERING We had a duty to look at the best interests of the team going forward.
DAVID PICKERING We have a strategy, we have shown leadership, we are moving forward.
DAVID PICKERING They did everything that game, and we didn't do anything. So basically they just outplayed us in eve...
DAVID PICKERING They did everything that game, and we didn't do anything, ... So basically they just outplayed us in...
DAVID PICKERING On behalf of the WRU Group, I must put our grateful thanks to David Moffett for his outstanding cont...
DAVID PICKERING I'm obviously delighted that my leadership has been given such a vote of confidence by the membershi...
DAVID PICKERING I'm obviously delighted that my leadership has been given such a vote of confidence by the membershi...
DAVID PICKERING He has made a huge difference both on and off the field.
DAVID PICKERING We've got a strong executive board full of professionals which is the think-tank of the Union that m...
DAVID PICKERING It is a center that provides entertainment in the way of restaurants and bars, and at least 12 luxur...
FRANK PICKERING Lifestyle centers are the hottest concept in America today.
FRANK PICKERING It's hard to understate a 66. It's the best score I've witnessed as a golf coach. (Ryan) expects a l...
MARK PICKERING We (the coaches) have waited a long time for the conference to be this deep and competitive. This ye...
MARK PICKERING Downtown Clarksville looks like the proverbial war zone.
KURT PICKERING I don't think we've ever talked about pre-positioning food caches before.
KURT PICKERING Some folks are moving out into communities and putting down some roots.
KURT PICKERING I know of some shelters that are not at capacity.
KURT PICKERING Last night (Monday) we were asked if we could take more. We told them we could take 3,000 from Texas...
KURT PICKERING We have misgivings about it. We'd like to stay out of that.
KURT PICKERING I don't look for any major improvement until the day after Christmas. The next time temperatures wil...
KURT PICKERING If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.
KURT PICKERING The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent n...
CHARLES W. PICKERING Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but al...
CHARLES W. PICKERING In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announc...
CHARLES W. PICKERING If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body,...
CHARLES W. PICKERING Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to con...
CHARLES W. PICKERING America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the worl...
CHARLES W. PICKERING A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant...
CHARLES W. PICKERING The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies...
CHARLES W. PICKERING Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite in...
CHARLES W. PICKERING His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the plea...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. ...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity loo...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in va...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise momen...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and r...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
ROY L. PICKERING JR. ...the locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the ti...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily s...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Was happiness (which was perhaps achieved not by getting what you wanted, but rather, by obtaining w...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terra...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON