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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Sallust

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Deepak Chopra

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

It could set a precedent for other pieces of property in that neighborhood. And other nearby properties are on the market or could soon be on the market.

Bob Fredericks

We are a golf mecca. The pieces are in place to ... make us leap from being [an] also-ran [to] being very competitive in that second-and-third-tier of cities.

Richard Goldman

I think African art, primitive in a sense, influenced the contemporary and modern art from the beginning of the century. That's why I like to have those pieces together.

Fortuna Valentino

[on being attacked in a parking lot] "While I was being pounded to pieces, I was just thinking, 'Hell...oh, this is just so absurd.' You have to laugh because it's so...where do they come from?"

Johnny Rotten

We've landed at least three pieces of business - 1,500-room nights.

Aftab Dada

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Bob Poole

When we looked at the equipment, we realized we could replicate processing in different pieces of equipment. That allows us to move work around if one piece of equipment is overloaded.

Bruce Mantz

It really does hurt the construction company, but also the owner and homeowner and the building owner, because these are pieces of equipment that need to be replaced, which adds time [to the construction schedule].

Jeff Morrison

He has all the pieces, and you could start talking about sharing files across different devices.

Philip Sugai

In the world of children's books and illustrations, Eric is in the top tier. His illustrations are beautiful pieces of artwork in themselves.

Jim Morrow

'The Evolution Diet' is extremely informative and insightful, yet it's funny and is a light read for those who want to just read bits and pieces.

Lulu

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.

Gene McSweeney

We permitted it in pieces if you will. The code allows for that.

Lance Simms

A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.

Gregg Andrews

She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

John Purtteman

The more pieces you have to a process, the more expensive.

Chris Masoner

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces.

Judith Viorst

They are seniors and they know what it takes. They didn't let me down. They let themselves down. They will have to pick up the pieces and get back at it tomorrow.

Corey Kline

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces, ... But I kept playing on it.

Tom Nutten

We really need a system where all the pieces fit together.

Jonathan Plucker

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

Marcel Duchamp

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

Julia Stiles

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Bill Murray

While we haven't conclusively proven why this happens, the pieces are starting to fall into place.

John Cacioppo

When you put all these little pieces together, you get a bigger drag, and that's what's taking the toll. It's the culmination of all these little things.

Rich Yamarone

I've got to tell you: You're an idiot. I can't believe you just sold the development rights to one of the most developable pieces of land in Florida.

Cary Lightsey

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Michael Franti

Rather, we wanted to implement the applications in pieces.

Bob Berckman

I didn't want to see it torn to pieces. I wanted to see it put back the way it was.

Johnny Jones

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience.

Karl Eikenberry

I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and crash, bang, wallop there were a million pieces of Chang ceramics lying around.

Nick Flynn

She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. When somebody says that you don't think they're going to try and take the most precious thing in your life.

Bernice Jamison

These 10 pieces will give her outfits she can mix and match. In fact, she can create 20 to 27 different outfits with this core group of clothing.

Barbara Tyler

Eventually we will combine the pieces that are part of Phase I. We're in the process of the land assembly.

David Tracy

He is a fascinating man who left behind 215 pieces of music, so there's a lot there to explore.

David Behm

Immediately after, it's quite devastating. But, individuals are resilient and they pick up the pieces and put their lives back together.

Anthony Mack

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Greg Gilbert

We can't say, at this point, that it's going to come out this year, ... There are a couple of big pieces of work that still have to be done.

Todd Hollenshead

Once the online deadline has passed and schools break up for Christmas, then we will get shoppers out for last-minute bits and pieces.

Natasha Burton

I look forward to improvement in our consistency for all four quarters of the game and in our fundamentals. When we put all the pieces together, it should be a lot of fun to watch.

Rusty Boostrom

He's dead, and until he was proven guilty, which he was never proven guilty, I can only standby what our laws say in this country. He's an innocent man and he's dead and we have to pick up the pieces and go on.

Warren White

When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my strength.

Marsha Norman

The great thing about some of these pieces is that they are all unique. The particular statue is mercury and this is made of lead.

Todd Zillweger

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Francesco Buranelli

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

James Matthew Barrie

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Mark Schneider

We had two excellent pieces of information on the economy. The Fed is now confirming that the economy is slowing nicely.

Phil Orlando

It's mixing everything. So, it's like, there's maybe like this linen burlap jacket car coat with a little chiffon dress underneath. So it's like mixing really true evening pieces, like little dance dresses, with something that's much more rugged, as a contrast.

Cynthia Rowley

They threw everything at us. When you get two goals off set pieces, those are tough to defend, especially when they had a height advantage.

Rui Farias

We're a short drive from three major cities, and pieces are being put together to give this area an entirely new engine for economic development and growth.

Lee Warren

Every card is a record of history. They are like pieces of a puzzle.

Janet Devries

The (arch)bishop was very impressed with it. He acknowledged that all people ? Catholics, non-Catholics, even people of no faith ? would still have a sense of appreciation for the beauty of the pieces.

Kathleen Hohl

We are an improved team when you add those three pieces into our lineup. All three should fit very well. It certainly gives us much more depth up front. They're older and more experienced guys that are significant pieces to put in right now.

Rob Sumner

There are so many pieces we don't have.

Maria Crosby

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

The kids are really excited about this. It is not too often that you get to see a map of the entire state put together in puzzle pieces, especially one created by kids.

Diane Hunter

We attempt to grasp the 'look and feel' of the buildings with the seating, lighting ambience and floral pieces.

Jon Gerych

You don't need to cut down trees. You can build from doors and other pieces.

Mark Cahill

We just haven't been able to move as swiftly into marketing, promotion and launch because we've been working so hard on the other pieces of this.

Sheila Hughes

Battle Creek had last year what I think we have right now, camaraderie and a lot of pieces. We've got 10 or 12 guys who can start on any night.

Darmetreis Kilgore

In some of the pieces you can see seeds, bones and teeth.

Gemma La Mana

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Anne Lamott

(These) 529 plans really are pieces of (expletive) ... that are good in maybe 1 percent of situations, ... Hand my money over to bureaucrats? No thank you!

Dan Montgomery

Property is cut into littler and littler pieces, until all that's left is a cemetery and parking lot. We're in a race to document the old cemeteries before they disappear.

Dale Flatt

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

James Taylor

It's like somebody wrapped up sticks of dynamite and just blew these homes into little tiny pieces.

Don Siegelman

What happens in FOP is children continue to make new pieces of the skeleton after birth, ... The signal is not just 'make more bone.'

Fred Kaplan

I was looking at all these pieces.

René Ruiz

It's like a gift from God fell out of the heavens. We were looking, where can we expand in the school? Then it was one of those situations where pieces fell into place. It was a win-win situation.

Mark Scott

When you have fragmented remains, each one is given a number, ... And you try to begin to relate certain pieces to one another and eventually relate all those pieces to a person.

Randy Hanzlick

We expected to have 250 samples. Now, we have 15,000 pieces to work with.

Don Burnett

We believe this will be one of the largest pieces of litigation in U.S. history.

Bruce Sewell

All issues remaining have been discussed before. There is a chance we could reach a tentative agreement, but the final pieces of the puzzle need to be put in place.

Will Holman

We were belted in the set pieces by a NSW team that was definitely up for the game.

Julian Gardner

But there's always the new guy that nobody's familiar with who wants to do something different, ... It is really a good piece of property, one of the best pieces in the Waco area.

Randy Reid

Our challenges in China are the value in terms of appreciating these pieces of technology, and how much they pay for it.

Horace Chow

They can't pound the puzzle together. The pieces have to fit.

Jerry Froelich

I think they were talking about it at school, and he had heard bits and pieces. I don't think he knew everything.

Troy Clark

It's a Mozart piece for violin that I've never played before so that's always fun challenge. His music has a lot of energy to it that never goes away so I'm always excited to be playing any of his pieces.

Sarah Gentry

We had a lot of open shots and a lot of good looks at the baskets. After the trade, we changed a lot of big pieces.

Raef Lafrentz

I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched up with anybody.

Lionel Anderson

That's the concept of team. A great team has all the pieces — pitching, defense, and hitting.

Amber Hall

The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces of contemporary art.

Henrietta Holsman

If we can lock down one of these very good, centrally located pieces of property, I don't think money will be that difficult.

Todd Reed

The Oriental Institute has the most important pieces from early Nubia outside of museums in Sudan.

Stephen Harvey

Glass pieces by their nature are made to be produced again and again and again.

Mike Baum

Generally speaking, most houses aren't particularly well documented. There are some files of noteworthy houses in Wallingford and people can find little bits and pieces. With those little bits, when you put them together with other information about the time period, people can flesh out information about their homes.

Bobbie Borne

We've gotten to write and perform some original pieces like 'Ports of Call' and 'Murder at The Met'. We've done a 'Messiah' sing-a-long, where hundreds of people from around the state gathered at church to be a part of a memorable event.

Paul Lee

I think I have common sense. There are so many pieces of legislation that don't pass that kind of test.

Gretchen Clearwater

That Phoenix situation killed me. When it didn't happen, all the teams I had been talking to had moved on and got other pieces. I was sitting there with nothing. I was going nuts.

Scott Padgett

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Richard Cecil

They would have done their homework and it will be a tough battle up front. Yes, we will focus on the set pieces and see what advantage we can get there, but there are other aspects to the game.

Frans Ludeke

They're important pieces of our puzzle.

Barry Weiner

There are important inconsistencies and discrepancies in the evidence. There will be reasonable doubt ... to the point that the puzzle pieces don't fit.

Alan Konop

He's bought six big pieces so far.

Ginger Renner

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

Selling the unit outright could bring a higher price today, particularly if they were to consider selling it pieces.

Paul Keung

(They) asked the owner to look at a couple pieces. He was showing, actually showing the suspects some of the jewelry. That's when one of the suspects branded a weapon.

Jeff Lance

We shot really well from the outside tonight and the defense really stepped it up. We were able to build on our press and all the pieces fell into place.

Darci Lewis

He believed in making women look beautiful in simple pieces of clothing.

Matthew Williamson

Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryone's living the American Dream so we canBuild up an armyAnd SMASH it to pieces!

Christine Anderson

It makes the pieces of the pie much smaller for the fishermen that don't travel.

Jim Olson

I am so excited my daddy's art will finally be shown in a museum. I believe he orchestrated this from heaven. He's like Elvis Presley; people won't let my daddy die. Interest in his art seems to be stronger than ever. I know he lives through all those pieces he created.

Cindy Miller

Right after we got out, there was still pieces falling and once it stopped we went out to see what it was.

Ryan Hoog

There are probably parties out there interested in pieces of Sea-Land, but not interested in taking over the whole group of businesses.

Jim Winchester

I think it will have to be cut into pieces simply to be moved out of there.

Gary Loveman

At the time Keith and I were working on a show called Fruitcake . Antonio had five or six of his pieces in that.

Bill Ross

I just try to take bits and pieces wherever I can. Seeing how different people finish from around the game is the best way to do that.

Calen Carr

We're not really sure if he knows why he did it. He only remembers bits and pieces of that day.

Robert Perkins

She's ready to fall to pieces, You're innocent. You've done nothing wrong. You will make it through this.

Melvin Spears

It had become a dream for him, something God had been inviting him to do and preparing him for. It seemed to culminate a lot of pieces of who he was, his creativity, his passion for people, for the story and engaging in something larger than life. The sea is just huge, and it is what it is. Aaron was excited to be part of that.

Mark Hogg

There are a lot of exciting pieces to this game. I think it will be great fun.

Rick Hartzell

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding

It's not like I have to be the main guy. I'm just filling one of the pieces to the puzzle.

John Abraham

Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the formulation of the idea.

Aaron Costic

Sometimes it's like you throw all the pieces up in the air, and this program just landed in the right place. These four works are going to complement each other beautifully.

Peter Boal

They only have six or seven or eight pieces of equipment assigned to the area and as I understand it, all but one of the pieces of equipment was not working.

Bill Hogan

They're seen in the industry as dried-up pieces of wood filled with gasoline.

Mckeel Hagerty

I thought it was a lot of his greatest hits, the things he's known for. The chiffon dresses, bias-cut dresses, some good denim pieces, good outer wear...I thought it was really sort of a signature.

Amy Astley

It's a very satisfying thing to do. You are creating something with your hands. Even if [the pattern] has been done a thousand times before, you can arrange the pieces how you want and create a pattern that's all your own.

Maren Lindberg

It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.

Joe Negri

I was really excited about practice this week. Their enthusiasm this week got me excited to coach. I think you could see a lot of pieces of their hearts and guts out on the floor. Both teams were exhausting early with the hype and left everything out on the floor.

Curry Haggerty

We're not there yet. We have all the pieces, I think, but they're not all in place.

Dan O'dell

The demolition is suspicious because pieces of evidence that can be used in the investigation were destroyed.

Dante Jimenez

It looks to have been laterally pushed, not scoured in back with dirt being removed in pieces. You can see levee material, some distance pushed inside the floodwall area, like a bulldozer pushed it.

Joseph Suhayda

We received an invitation to hold exhibits in the Brazilian embassies in Paris, France, and in The Hague, Holland. Receptivity was good, a French importer, who works in the interior design market there, bought six pieces.

Maura Spiellmann

Items are sent in for the auction from all over the world and people bring them with them when they come for the convention. Often they are selling things so that they buy other bits and pieces and keep collecting.

Stephen Bailey

Giving pieces of ourselves away and taking money away from those who can least afford it; it's almost like self-cannibalization.

Joseph Finnerty

There are just so many pieces of it that right now arent right.

John Cornish

A huge section of the U.S. economy is down. It's as complicated as the rescue efforts in New Orleans; it's all these different pieces. You have to get electricity restored, find out where your employees are; it's almost a mind-boggling exercise.

Barton Smith

The top pieces - Steichen and Stieglitz - they're among the most important pictures and among the rarest prints that there are.

Stephen Perloff

She's learning where the chess pieces go on the board. Ian is enjoying his title as a national champion and wants to help his little sister learn the game, too.

Ian Gilchrist

Most of the pieces served a function, such as this bronze oil lamp in the shape of a wrestler. So there's form, function and above all beauty.

Hiroko Koyama

We found some pieces of the floor that had orange paint still on them.

Jamey Robbins

One hundred less calories and 2,000 steps is very reasonable. It's not like going on a diet. It might be like cutting out pieces of bread or a roll.

Sandra Parker

I only had a couple of pieces. I was worn out after trying to eat that.

Craig Lewis

My job, in the end, was to serve and protect, to assure that John's music was not being frivolously cut into little pieces. Slowly, John realized that he didn't have to fight for every note .

Matthias Gohl

Very few pieces of technology cross the line and become a cultural icon.

Sean Maloney

It seems like it's more technical pieces of reform. We are a long way from the end, and we've still got issues to address that this panel didn't address.

Barry Erwin

This is a logical extension of a successful business collaboration. We've done a lot of bits and pieces over the years. This is taking it to the next level.

Clark Bunting

We're focusing on particular works — films, books, pieces of music, architecture — that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.

Kurt Andersen

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Kelly Rowan

We concentrated a little bit more on set pieces this week. The last few matches we've led at half-time, but today it was just a matter of controlling the game and finishing off.

Keven Mealamu

We don't lose anything from Saturday, as long as we learn from it. I'll be more concerned if we keep repeating the same mistakes from today. I don't know if it's a chemistry thing. It's easier to fix the physical pieces of it. Most physical mistakes happen because we're out of position, which is a mental mistake.

Mariaelena Bellinger

It was a big mistake-I had a lot left. I had to accompany all the pieces a lot better.

Brian Crosby

You've got all the pieces needed to pull this off.

Tim Brown

We already own most of the site. These are the last three pieces we need to separate the bike path from the buses.

Dale Arrington

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces – all you do is tear it all out.

Greg Austin

What we're doing is buying pieces of a company. We go through the process of trying to understand their business and to [have them] help us go through how they think about their business.

Robert Gendleman

With nothing more than a few pieces of paper, forged deeds, he turned nothing into $1.6 million.

Charles Hynes

It makes for such interesting pieces.

Debra Jahn

One detail could be the link that puts all the pieces together.

Charlie Crist

If Jay Smith isn't the coach here, then this university doesn't know what it is doing. This is a cyclical league, and he has the pieces in place to get back to the top. You can see it with how hard his kids play even when they are down.

Keith Dambrot

They have scoured the countryside looking for pieces for the engine and wings and they have slowly but surely built the thing up to what we see today.

C. Michael White

To what level will he be at when he comes in here? I don't know that. I know this - he is very diligent about wanting to get started. He's chomping at the bit to try to get us to give him bits and pieces so he can get going.

Greg Robinson

The project continues to work for us and for the developer as the pieces come together.

Jack Anderson

It's in the Old Castle Tavern at St Andrews, ... In two pieces!

Rich Beem

He was a wonderful boy. Right now my heart is heavy. We're trying to pick up the pieces.

Carlton Anthony

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Online, ... if all your pieces look the same, collectors will buy one and move on. I never, ever paint the same thing twice.

Jeff Cohen

Without question, we will ask for the return of all pieces acquired on the black market. When the proof is certain, we will demand it. We are already imposing huge pressure. And not only on the Getty.

Rocco Buttiglione

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Vin Scully

The designer pieces allow office spaces to be elegantly created anywhere in the home - meeting both the needs and desires of consumers.

Christopher Lowell

We just started to pick up the pieces from this hurricane. The last thing we need right now is another hurricane, ... I'm not going to go back down there right now. I'm going to give this thing a chance see what direction it's taking. It would be bad for me to go back right now and it's coming right at me.

Dennis Lewis

We learned a lot. We just have a few pieces of a big jigsaw puzzle.

Victor Stevens

The pieces have to start falling into place.

Bob Duffy

We believe 20 of the dead were women and children, six were men and another is unknown. It is difficult to get the exact toll because many of the bodies were blown to pieces.

Raziq Bugti

Many people would have given up but he picked up the pieces and look, he is going to his second consecutive Commonwealth Games. That takes guts.

Nasra Shehan

My impression is that Mr. Murdoch has been in a phase of building assets for most of his career, 25 years or so, and he has reached the point where most of the key pieces are in place.

Harold Vogel

He didn't accomplish a miracle. He just put the pieces back together.

Martin Brodeur

It's been awesome seeing the turn out that we've had. I don't know how many games we're going to win. We've kind of got the pieces, now just figuring out how they all fit together is going to be the big trick.

Adam Brahosky

We would have to use a screen to sift through and find pieces. I'm sure they are there, but we just weren't prepared for that kind of digging.

Michael Birdwell

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.

White Eagle

We have to look to the future, if it carries on like this then we will end up like the gladiators of ancient Rome -- if you lose you get torn to pieces.

Andriy Shevchenko

Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.

Andrei Codrescu

I've done the fluffiest and the darkest theater pieces in recent history.

Marc Kudisch

His pieces have a known value. People are investing when they buy his pieces.

Lois Rigdon

They are what they are. There's not going to be any doctoring or cutting pieces out.

Jerry Hill

There is no better way to get somebody's attention in the business community and the tennis business, than to be fortunate enough to have been able to pull all the pieces together to form this, what I call a coup. It's a coup. Everything has come together perfectly.

Lenny Simpson

The bone is broken into several pieces. It will make things more complicated. He should be sidelined for six weeks to two months.

Pape Diouf

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Cassandra Walker

But there were just some little pieces that didn't get put together.

Gary Carr

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Maurice Ravel

But we are able to show them a few bits and pieces that will open their eyes and make them think about their own vulnerability.

Mark Hyde

The key is to have a kind of core DNA - a series of pieces that are part of the look of the restaurant, that change and morph based on conditions in each case.

David Rockwell

Everybody's finding their roles. It's like the pieces of the puzzle are coming together for us.

Aaron Cook

It is just a practical answer to keeping things in. They need to keep certain pieces of kit dry and a shed does that job admirably!

Paul Beaver

We're obviously going for an integration that hasn't been done before. Some work on integration going on with particular pieces in Canada, the US and my old group in the UK but we're taking a bigger slice now.

Mark Wallace

When I saw the small pieces I believed in it. I could do it.

Mark Nolte

They're having a tough time outbidding developers for key pieces of land.

Julie Escobar

I don't know how long it's going to take for us to put the pieces back together.

Tera Wilson

Cassini will probably execute a flawless mission around the Earth if it can make the last hurdle through 8,000 pieces of 'space junk' surrounding the Earth.

Michio Kaku

It's an incredibly appealing movie with a big heart and big comic set pieces. It's both that funny and delivers real emotional moments.

Peter Rice