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JOHN ROPER There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, f...
ELMO ROPER Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitel...
GAYLE ROPER I have been pleasantly surprised on a number of fronts.
BARBARA ROPER The average person usually can't distinguish between them.
BARBARA ROPER The for-profit environment adds to the pressures and potential conflicts of interests,
BARBARA ROPER Ultimately you can't get around the fact that forty percent of states are not inspecting advisors at...
BARBARA ROPER The SEC doesn't have the resources to do its job. In 1980 the SEC reviewed all corporate financial s...
BARBARA ROPER If you look at the infraction records, oftentimes it's the same firms that are getting caught, a sig...
BARBARA ROPER Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.
GAYLE ROPER In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.
GAYLE ROPER Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and...
MATT ROPER It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed...
BRUCE ROPER It's hard to capture what we do live on any CD. In concerts, we play it off the cuff as much as we c...
BRUCE ROPER We've tried a lot of different things, but with this last CD, we wanted to get back to that front po...
BRUCE ROPER (Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. ...
BRUCE ROPER Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San...
BRUCE ROPER Dan's a very caring kid. He leads vocally and also by example. He is our anchor.
BRIAN ROPER We expected Ferndale to play tough and they did. We're glad to have escaped with a win.
BRIAN ROPER This was a close the whole game. The Blaine kids really scrapped and hustled.
BRIAN ROPER Sometimes you've just got to find ways to win.
BRIAN ROPER Dan took the second-most shots on the team last year and I asked him to change his role. He has rode...
BRIAN ROPER I respect coaches who use a different strategy. Scott thought that was the best way to beat us and t...
BRIAN ROPER I thought we played unselfishly and shared the ball. Defensively, we did a nice job of contesting sh...
BRIAN ROPER Defensively, we were as solid as we've been all year.
BRIAN ROPER We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.
BRIAN ROPER I wanted the ball to be in Brady's hands; he's our best playmaker.
BRIAN ROPER This is still a rescue incident, ... We have not given up hope.
BOB ROPER That's a positive indicator to us that there may be somebody, something making a noise down in the r...
BOB ROPER As long as we can continue to find voids under the pile, it means that there could be somebody still...
BOB ROPER The geologists have studied the hill, ... They have seen some additional areas that they have severe...
BOB ROPER We have an additional list of about 19 people that we've checked with the post office, Internet sear...
BOB ROPER Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF, Janet's leadership vision an...
WILLIAM ROPER Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF. She has extensive experience...
WILLIAM ROPER Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my s...
MATT ROPER This was a good win for us. Travis was phenomenal and Nixon was a big part of our offense. I'm proud...
IAN ROPER I don't think it was too pretentious.
GERALD ROPER The titles they use mean absolutely nothing. We have a marketplace for financial advice in which pro...
BARBARA ROPER Who in their right mind decides we're going to lighten up on record retention policies for the new, ...
BARBARA ROPER You need to get this stuff out in the open, make sure that people understand what they are paying fo...
BARBARA ROPER The proper approach is to have a long-term strategy that has a balance of different types of investm...
BARBARA ROPER The research is that the more you fiddle with your portfolio the worse you do. Investors rarely bene...
BARBARA ROPER There's no question there has been enormous pressure from the Bush administration to think small. Th...
BARBARA ROPER If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th...
BARBARA ROPER It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is...
BARBARA ROPER He said things to me on the bus that I can't repeat. He's a character.
JEFF ROPER He does what he wants. He's a free spirit.
JEFF ROPER Satterfield's a valuable kid to have kicking, and we'll use him again in the future if the situation...
JEFF ROPER They (Massac County) have a lot of speed right now. Somehow, we have to try to combat that.
JEFF ROPER The first couple of games we couldn't hang on to the ball. Last week, we were able to take advantage...
JEFF ROPER We have to find a way to get some points. Hopefully, our defense will be able to maintain their leve...
JEFF ROPER We're looking for a spark, and Crawford has played well at the sophomore level. We've found out Reed...
JEFF ROPER The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past t...
JEFF ROPER Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the...
WILLIAM ROPER This game was very similar to the first two in the fact that turnovers were the difference in the ga...
JEFF ROPER If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the l...
MATT ROPER It's pure coincidence. Our product has been under development for a couple of months.
TIM ROPER We got a little perimeter-oriented, which allowed them to become more and more aggressive.
BRIAN ROPER We had a real good team day. Those four kids are one and two seeds. After that, we had a real good s...
DOUG ROPER We're just trying to get as many as we can to the regional. And there, anything can happen.
DOUG ROPER It'd be nice if I had all dedicated wrestlers that only wrestled.
DOUG ROPER Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this ...
MATT ROPER It was a good team win. We had good balance which has been one of our strengths all year.
BRIAN ROPER After two years in the red, we had a substantial turn between '04 and '05, and the first quarter of ...
WILLIAM ROPER With crime going down, all of us bragging about crime going down, when this kind of ordinance gets i...
GERALD ROPER I don't know what Christmas would be like without bonfires.
GERARD ROPER We need this levee. We respect it.
GERARD ROPER The community has been very good to us and we wanted to show our appreciation. We thought of this as...
HARVEY ROPER What we do best is business. It makes perfect sense to leverage our skills and knowledge of the busi...
HARVEY ROPER We'll have everything from water to aspirin for the jurors.
HARVEY ROPER We look at it as an opportunity to promote Auburn more. Any proceeds generated will aid in the promo...
HARVEY ROPER That was crucial. I said on the bench that if we catch them, we'll beat them, but you've got to make...
DWIGHT ROPER Our youth showed up tonight. We had two freshmen and two sophomores starting, and tonight, we never ...
DWIGHT ROPER Basically, since Christmas, Julie has been stepping up and making plays for us.
DWIGHT ROPER You'd be crazy not to. There's a bigger choice and you spend less money.
JAMES ROPER A surprising number of goods are still either hard to find or unavailable online. Large gaps exist i...
JAMES ROPER On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. H...
ROBERT ROPER On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. H...
ROBERT ROPER The SRB has been releasing some of its stockpiles to try and get the price down without much success...
IAN ROPER The SRB has been releasing some of its stockpiles to try and get the price down without much success...
IAN ROPER They could certainly use the good publicity.
IAN ROPER I think we'll be a contender in our conference.
IAN ROPER That's a real area of concern for us.
IAN ROPER I feel confident with either one of them on the field.
IAN ROPER This was a great win for us. I was real proud of their effort.
IAN ROPER I really don't have any feel for whether or not I'll be drafted. I just want a shot to make an NFL r...
KYLE ROPER We're butting heads pretty good out there. We're helping each other get better.
KYLE ROPER It's been a good week so far. I don't have any complaints. My knee hasn't hurt at all. It feels grea...
KYLE ROPER The basketball history is rich, probably much deeper than football. It's definitely something that h...
JUSTIN ROPER I think it was our defense that was the key for us tonight. We pressed all night and were able to cr...
JUSTIN ROPER We played really good defense; that was key. We rebounded really well, and our press created turnove...
JUSTIN ROPER The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and medioc...
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocri...
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE