Famous Quotes and Proverbs

«There's a wing full of gas in my backyard.»

«[Some farmers are relocated. Others join the ranks of an estimated 150 million migrant workers drawn to the booming cities in search of jobs. Because of China's restrictive household registration system, which prohibits rural inhabitants from moving to the cities, they are forced to work illegally, earning pennies an hour and without access to social services. While the migration is good for China's overly rural economy, another 150 million peasants, lured by the promise of a better life, are expected to move to urban centres in the next decade.] China concerns me a lot because of the massive unemployment, ... I see enough people wandering the streets as it is. If they can't keep this drive of construction and development, what are these people going to do? You just have to think about that. The Chinese are incredibly strong, they can take a lot more than any Canadian ever could. But I think there's a limit to all that, too.»

«. . . our wayward kicking let us down, we gave away too much possession rather than taking the ball to ground and going again.»

«They were fierce competitors, ... Often, it would be David passing Dylan in the woods.»

«We know his spirit will always be with us, ... He had 21 great years. Dylan is in a better place.»

«Fortunately there were no pedestrians or children or bicycles on top of the transformer at the time of the failure,»

«We found these lesions are present in 10 per cent of people over 50, ... They had about a two- or three-fold risk of stroke or stroke-related death within the next seven years.»

«The increased risk was higher if you didn't have severe blood pressure, so presumably in people who've already got bad blood pressure, that's the main risk factor,»

«The traditional risk factors for stroke are increasing age, being male - men have more strokes than women - cigarette smoking is a very strong one and blood pressure is probably the strongest consistent factor,»

«So that, even taking these factors into account, quite independent of these traditional risk factors, these signs are actually found to confer about a three times increased risk.»