“I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."” IfsWayCountryDoneWould BeJusticeLevelsTraditionDecidedTraditionalContinuingDisserviceOptimum Author:John Ashcroft
“Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.” FirstsMayWholeHandsScienceOrderPiecesBirdUnderstoodTablesPlantSpeciesGlassesBlowFollowingCornersCracksSquaresInchesContinuingRepresenting Author:Leon Croizat
“I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.” WayTwoMovingFormLanguageTvsGoes OnElementsBritishMagazinesCinemaDevicesContinuingTwo WaysTime Goes OnTime MagazineAmerican English Author:Robert Burchfield
“I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.” WholeTroubleMaterialsModelsWoodsDrawingExpensesCustomsArchitectContinuingPreparingTire Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsHelpingCareDifficultProgramContinuingGood Success Author:Betty Ford
“I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsFirstsDoeI CanSometimesReasonLinesContinuingMomentum Author:Billy Collins
“What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.” InstrumentsContinuingViolin Author:Joshua Bell
“The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.” KnowsCoursesHurtPartySpendingReformTeaContinuingDelayTea PartyCharting Author:Bob Barr
“There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.” PeopleLittlesMadnessFollowingSixtyContinuingContinuing On Author:Creed Bratton
“The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.” MenHumansStillsMomentsBodyProcessEnvironmentDevelopmentBirthBecomingStandingDeterminedDevelopingContinuingOrganismsInterference Author:Peter L. Berger
“A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.” WellsImportantCertainRolesGroupsSecurityCreationHabitCircumstancesModelsPressureUnityPatternsLifestyleRole ModelsContinuingSelectionOrientationVisibilityClusters Author:Anthony Giddens
“We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.” GivingBelieveSchoolLeaderDoorsTaxesEuropeGreenConservativeRefuseContinuingEasternGrammarMigrationEastern EuropeReferendumsGrammar School Author:Nigel Farage
“When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.” PeopleWayWritingGivenTheaterNotesScreensPostsContinuingDesksPost It Notes Author:Maureen Johnson
“Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!” ThinkingPastRememberMovingLossMistakeChangedLessonsRecoveryMoving ForwardFixedContinuingPausesGet OverUndoneRemembering The PastPast Is Over Author:Jennifer Young
“The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.” LightVoiceMoralTakenAuthorityPerformancesStressPaidPressureLipsTheatreMeaninglessExcessContinuingModerationNormOccasionalStarvationPoisoningPunctualityLip ServiceMoral Authority Author:Gelsey Kirkland