David Ige Quotes

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

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• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Me
  • Next
  • Project

• Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Live
  • Children
  • Ideas

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Control
  • Win
  • Leader

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Effort
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Today
  • Education

• 'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fight

• I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • High
  • Space
  • Priority

• If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Different
  • Think

• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Children
  • Job

• I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Great

• A people under the menace of war and of invasion is very easy to govern. It does not claim social reforms, it does not cavil over armaments or military equipment. It pays without haggling, it ruins itself at it, and that is excellent for the syndicates, the financiers, and the heads of industry to whom patriotic terrors open an abundant source of gain.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • War
  • Military

• Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Education
  • Inspiration

• I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Gold

• Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Animal

• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

  

  Dave Parnas

• I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

  

  Ann Bancroft

• If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • I Love
  • Beach
  • Laugh

• Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Matter
  • Ought
  • Usage

• I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

  

  David Ige