Quotes of: Operating-system Keyword

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

Aubrey McClendon

If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

Sean Duffy

In some ways the operation of the feminine stereotype is so obvious and for many women entirely unattainable, that it can be easily reacted against. It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the o...

The Female Eunuch

A tear rolled down my cheek And more came down Until tears rolled down like a stream. My eyes were blind with tears for you. They washed my eyes till I could see.

Anthology of Poetry and Verse Written by Students in Creative Writing Classes and Clubs During the First Three Years of Operation (1962-1965) of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mortimer Brewster: [on the telephone] Yes, operator, I'd like the Happy Dale Sanatorium, Happy Dale, New York. Come on, operator, what's taking so long? They're just across the river. I could swim it faster! No, I don't want the Happy Dale Laundry. I...

Arsenic and Old Lace

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

Cathy Freeman

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into war and prevent it getting out—at any point ...

The Revolution in Warfare

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that...

Scaramouche

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

Breathing for Two

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

The Uglies Trilogy

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

Voice of Reason

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

Saad Hariri

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

Kevin Mitnick

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

Lionel Jospin

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

Leopold Trepper

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Margaret Mead

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

Steve Coogan

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz