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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

When it comes time to do business there it will be done in the summer. Only a few businesses will be successful in a situation like that, and that's why it's mostly bars up in Charlotte. ... I don't know why we can't accept Charlotte as a summer place. It's a great summer place.

Bob Barbato

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Joan Felt

Mostly, I've made independent films that don't see the light of day.

Rachael Leigh Cook

There is no market failure. Most small businesses can get access to capital loans. Yes, there are people who do not have access to capital, but it's mostly because they have a bad idea.

Veronique De Rugy

Expense ratios are all mostly under 75 basis points.

Michael Iachini

Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't.

Henry James

My chest was cut real bad, too, but we both didn't know until we got to the hospital. We were mostly concerned about my neck, and he saw that the jugular wasn't cut, so he knew that we would get to the hospital in time.

Keith Harris

That's the first rocket that landed in the kibbutz. The Palestinians have since fired others, but they land mostly in the fields.

Gidi Sabag

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Jeanette Winterson

In those communities it's mostly individual customers who have lost power where trees have fallen on the service line.

Dan Sharp

There were some financial classes, mostly budgeting, learn how manage our money so we can keep our house.

Shannon Cuesta

When one gets into the predicting the future business. One gets into a situation where you are mostly wrong.

John Gagnon

Thursday, I forecast as mostly sunny. It's a much-needed break.

John Farley

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

Alexander Maclaren

He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.

Douglas Muzzio

I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours, but mostly they were in and out of the picture. There were times to go hide and times to come out and play.

Sally Field

At first, we had mostly cosmetics, then we kept expanding our gift area.

Nick Spanos Jr

Small goals are mostly individuals getting better, especially in the area of blocking, because we are so young.

Dave Shondell

It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.

Jim Fischer

We are talking mostly cosmetic work at the Sports Arena and Coliseum, and we have so many more facilities, like Staples Center, that are available to us.

David Simon

I've heard from a lot of people, mostly small-business owners, about how they feel neglected by City Hall. It's a way to get the city's attention.

Lamar Whitmer

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Thomas Frank

Lots of liquor. Mostly beer and wine.

Don Peritz

We couldn't get any shots. They did a great job boxing us out. I feel at this point we can play with anybody but we've got to play a mostly mistake-free game.

Brian Blubaugh

We are 15 years away from the peak ... The last (commodities cycle) peak was in 1975 ... Since then the system has mostly been consumer and technology driven.

David Murrin

Mostly as an outlet just to do something during class.

Stephan Pastis

We'll take a lot of things from this game, but mostly we realize we'll have to get better. We'll take all that to the practice field.

Matt Ward

It was a slight change for me, because I've worked mostly in the food business.

Anne Borchers

Last year, we had mostly jazz, bluegrass and Broadway. We saw we needed more Broadway, story dance and family events. We've got something for everyone.

Chad L. Hershner

But mostly, I'm just trying to be more consistent.

Jeff Pendergraph

We had flown Shark21 mostly up to that point so both the aircraft would be available for the Prime Minister's flight (on February 2).

George Mcguire

The market was a little oversold. I think this (the run-up) is mostly technical. I don't think you can read too much into it, since there weren't a lot of drivers.

Russ Koesterich

The final product is a combination of glucose and fructose, usually either 42 percent fructose or 55 percent fructose with the rest mostly glucose.

Joanne R. Lupton

We're taking a big leap of faith by moving here. But we believe that if you build it, they will come. Mostly we just needed some independence and some room to grow.

Renee Funderburk

That's the most important thing in my wrestling. The first takedown in a match is mostly what wins the match.

David Yost

Days Inn didn't have much damage. It was mostly contained to the truck. We did evacuate the south side of the hotel and kept water on it until we could get foam hooked up so we could put out the fire. We had to use 30 gallons of foam to put out the fire.

Gerry Mcghee

We do some marketing to bring people in. But it's mostly friends of friends or relatives or members' children who are 21 or over.

Chuck Kolner

What's really on peoples' minds is health care and education. Jobs are also a huge thing, and that's what these candidates are mostly focusing on.

Nancy Harvey

We're getting mostly people who have never signed up, like in their 40s.

Carmen Lopez

Our guys don't get appearance money. Mostly they get grants and the goodwill of people who believe in their ability. And they don't have any fancy lifestyle.

Max Binnington

I have a little bit of optimism, mostly hope. I don't want to go backward, I know that.

Shaun Rinier

I can't shoot my age — yet. I mostly shoot in the high 80s. I had a shot at it a couple of weeks ago at D.W. Field but ended up with a 92. I'll get there someday.

Matthew Uto

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.

David Lodge

Mostly, (I have to improve) all round. Just consistency -- bring it to every game.

Rafeek Frederick

We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly direct transfers to the Iraqi central bank to finance the war with Iran.

Ali Allawi

There's a little bit more caution coming into the investment outlook mostly because of fears of higher interest rates in the U.S. and Europe and now Japan.

Chris Iggo

Mostly the motivation was not going broke.

Tom Potter

The final was unbelievable. We had some beautiful goals against a very good team. They were mostly upperclassmen and they were fast and strong.

Lorin Campbell

I won't say we are completely comfortable with it. We (the board) are mostly stay-at-home moms running this program off the kitchen table.

Brenda Fritz

The market's been soft, ... and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

Andrew Zimbalist

At the moment it appears to be mostly particulates (soot). We have no reports so far of elevated levels at ground level.

Michael Clarke

He had a passion for sports, mostly basketball, but he was willing to coach anything and everything they asked him to. But more importantly, he had a passion for teaching and coaching kids.

Wayne Gray

Mostly, there is no land left in Orlando.

Anthony Crocco

I never eat between meals and I don't eat junk food. I mostly stick to fish, vegetables and chicken. But I do love chocolate, coffee, red wine and cigarettes...

Jerry Hall

The food at my restaurants is mostly the food of Italy's grandmothers.

Mario Batali

I think mostly it just kind of helps me tune out the everyday stresses.

Tony Pozeck

There was mostly nerves caught up with last season. Now, I know what to expect and how to feel things out.

Ryan Lowmiller

Just basically what he'd already said, that he didn't do anything, he blamed it mostly on Sarah (Kolb).

Tony Reynolds

I know it's mostly them, but I help them. They raise the bar for themselves.

Nancy Hills

[Yet so far, the creative energy has been mostly a grassroots affair.] It doesn't fit into how agencies think, ... They're not keyed into developing things as part of the community.

Gary Stein

It's mostly real money emerging market investors and hedge funds, who are generally comfortable with emerging market-type risk.

Martin Hohensee

It's going to be mostly reduced frequency out of our hubs, not huge numbers.

Chris Brathwaite

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Andrew Shue

He is a very good bowler, there is no doubt about that, but he is mostly dangerous only when the ball is new. He can get the new ball to swing around a lot, but once the ball gets older, he isn't so much of a threat.

Tatenda Taibu

Mostly on the other side of Harvey's where it happens and you know, baseball diamonds down there, but up in this way it doesn't happen.

Raymond Breen

Mostly, though, I like to paint.

Cleo Moore

Our team is mostly made up of 15 and 16 year-old kids. Basically we finished around .500 last year, so we played very well against kids much older.

Tom Draper

We do everything together. At first, it was mostly wrestling but then we'd hang out together and do our homework together.

Alex Mckinney

It's a great story on a lot of levels, ... But mostly it's about Midwest geek culture. That's something I know a little about.

Greg Harrison

Tinsel is mostly all plastic, which does not digest. If an animal eats too much of it, it could block the intestines.

Joe Heimlich

We have a beach that has been mostly stable, so after these erosion events, you do typically see good recovery.

Virginia Barker

I think (the players) believed last year they had the ability. It wasn't ability last year that kept them from winning, but mostly off-the-field issues that just hammered on us. It wasn't good.

Dave Soule

Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises.

Bob Muglia

History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Until 10 years ago, we were mostly dealing with predictions and scenarios. Now, unfortunately, in the last few years, we are able to see and measure actual effects.

Roberto Bertollini

It's taking ideas and applying them in a new area, mostly.

Bruce Hartsough

This video course has sparked some conversation for us, but mostly it re-enforces our ongoing desire for learning.

Jan Peterson

I've had a lot of clients call and come in and tell me how they are doing, whether they like it or not. Some say they are bothering them when they're on the phone or sleepy, but mostly everybody I've had have had a lot of great results.

Shannon Jones

We're really not doing much different. Mostly we're doing a lot of nutrition stuff, trying to stay off caffeine.

Paul Goodwin

Charging higher rates to large users covers up the fact that these large users mostly communicate small messages to many individuals who have already paid for their Internet connection.

Bruce Russell

I think that the recovery is mostly mental, not physical.

Cody Weik

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Doug Noble

It's mostly because he's bigger and stronger. There's no secret to it.

Ron Digravio

There are certain things you want to go do together, and you want your mate to be there. But mostly you just try and, you know, pick places where you shouldn't be going because it's going to be too crazy.

Keith Urban

We knew it was going to be hostile, ... I had some fun with the fans during pre-game, but mostly I ignored them, until the final 20 seconds, when I started celebrating with the guys.

Henry Burris

College students don't get a lot of great nutrition, mostly because they are in a hurry, so we give them counsel on healthy things to eat.

Chris Linde

I can't tell you anything about what happens after the cameras go off, mostly because I'm usually unconscious by then.

Richard Dean Anderson

It's really a big fish technique, and I was fortunate to catch five of them. It's mostly an early bite and the lure is key.

Jay Yelas

Mostly, we are amateur historians. We try to live like our ancestors or forefathers.

Wade Reynolds

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Saadi

Mostly because we do hard work up here and have two-a-day practices and the conditioning that the coach puts us through.

Jon Zofkie

We're an older redneck conservative group who mostly see the world in black and white.

Dave Kirby

They weren't in terrible shape. It was mostly years of dust and dirt.

Mark Fallon

We occasionally hear suggestions from students, mostly international students who are transit-dependent.

Sj Morrison

Mostly what I do to pay the bills is a lot of writing for corporate training films and producing those.

Liz Stubbs

We started setting aside two hours every Saturday last fall. A few adults come, but it?s mostly kids, some as young as six, but more around 12 to 13.

Chris Fisher

I love to play and I love to win. But mostly it's just a really fun night to play darts and hang out with a great group of people.

Michelle Samarel

These stocks are mostly bought by retail investors. When these stocks approach high double digits, they become less attractive to retail investors.

Jonathan Cohen

I was very young and very stupid. In the beginning it's mostly just the magic of the process. It's not easy. You don't learn overnight.

John Szarkowski

At the end of the day, you can put trillions of dollars into security but these facilities are mostly above ground. A concerted attack, like they've attacked some of these compounds in Saudi Arabia, a military attack, you can't protect against it.

Bob Baer

Our people are mostly corporate, so they love all the extras.

Wayne Gangler

They're going to be great — big and mostly experienced. I can't say enough about the linemen.

Luke Taylor

They were mostly worried about Oracle (bilking) them on maintenance costs.

Bruce Richardson

The U.N. failed to respond. But it's mostly because the West didn't want another Somalia.

Richard Reitano

What we're trying to do is entertain ourselves, and we are mostly a bunch of adults, but at a basic level that works for everybody.

Brian Henson

We sat around and ate and had fun. He talked about God, mostly. He was really into the word of God. I know he's in heaven. I ain't even worried about it.

Richard Chapman

But there is still some difference compared with the practice in the international market where fluctuation of trading currencies are mostly not bottomed or capped.

Wang Yuanhong

We lost some players, mostly through injuries picked up last year.

Rassie Erasmus

The game was just lacking the intensity. (Mostly) going through the motions, hard to get into the flow.

Greg Adams

People are contacting me and I'm just letting them know about the contacts, mostly through online Web sites.

Sharon Nichols

I'm really a proponent of the 'old economy' stocks; that's mostly what I own.

David Mills

She'll mostly stay with me, and I try not to keep her on a leash because she's active. She's very nice, and I don't think there should be leash laws because it's not fair.

David Goodwin

Mostly, my teammates were boxing out and I was the open guy. Just staying aggressive.

Joseph Harris

We were obviously really connected, which was sort of scary but mostly wonderful.

Tom Oswald

Mostly we try to stay in the Fremont area for our events and picnics and participating in the John C. Fremont Days parade.

Tom Miller

It's not gangbusters. It's a few here, a few there. But mostly, the bleeding has stopped.

Kate Rubin

We have a workforce in the Treasure Coast that is mostly in the service industry. It doesn't have to be that way.

Sue Hershey

Sun is seeing some strength in government and healthcare, but competition -- mostly with IBM -- remains acute.

Steve Milunovich

There are a lot of artists hiding in the woods here. There really are a lot of talented people here, and what we auction off is mostly local and it's original.

Pat Mays

We've never heard of anything like this. It really undermines the author's credibility and authority even if it's mostly inconsequential details. It's like putting a negative book review on the cover.

Paul Aiken

We were attacking their man-to-man well, and they're mostly a man-to-man team. Their zone gave us problems. We didn't attack it right. Their zone beat us.

Mark Schmidt

It's mostly people that are just going through.

George Nadeau

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

It was mostly to get people to come to the hearing. People knew about that, and now they know it's passed, so we've not done anything more.

Carol Oppenheimer

At South Carolina, I hung out mostly with my host and that was it. But all of Virginia's players hung out with us. They all hung out together like a big family. They're cool guys.

Gavin Smith

There's not much players around. Buyers are mostly absent while there's a lot of tax-related selling going on.

Jay Suskind

It's not so bad. A lot of these guys are like me, mostly free agents. For the most part, everyone is pretty cool.

Michael Gasperson

Mostly it was short stuff over the middle, ... Usually I got blasted after I caught it.

Ken Beck

Mostly water bottles. I thought they were going to start shooting before we got out of there.

Damione Lewis

We do get quite a few homeless in the ER. They are mostly healthy people, but they are cold. They are looking for warmth and something to eat.

Valerie Osborn

Ten homes are on fire and will mostly likely be destroyed.

Anita Foster

Of the 6,500 missing, it is likely that they could mostly be dead as many days have passed.

Thaksin Shinawatra

It's mostly a back-end system to allow staff to do things faster and more easily and to prepare us for using the Internet.

Lee Vandiver

These are (mostly) mom and pops because we were told by the merchants (they) didn't want to see franchises that you would see in every town.

Steve Lyle

We got him to Wal-Mart (Monday), but that took everything out of him. Mostly he sleeps a lot. There are times he is just resting his eyes, but he's very aware of what is going on.

Joanne Daane

We haven't been in a lot of big meets and done a lot of incredible things. We've run in them mostly for the experience.

Glenn Bass

My best friends are mostly all my teammates, so I'll definitely try to keep in touch with them.

Sarah Campbell

My access at work is kind of limited. I can do a search, but I can't see anyone's pictures. Mostly, I'll just post something or check my comments and e-mail.

Sarah Gottlieb

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

Hamadoun Toure

Parking passes should be designated for a certain area, in which a student is confined to an area on campus, mostly for convenience to their dorm.

Laura Hall

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

Beverly Mitchell

Mostly it was a situation where she was not going to get enough minutes.

Linda Hargrove

Officer Bennett was the man. It was mostly a mop-up for us.

David Lamb

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Mark Twain

It began to complement the ski hill and the (Badger State) winter games. It was focused then mostly on winter sports. It has since evolved to a winter theme.

Ann Jaroski

If it was mostly white women, they'd get their way.

Rosemary Raygada

I think it was mostly the freshmen students that caused damages to the hotel and there were noise complaints. And alcohol was involved.

Kirk Smith

Respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Sheila Nevins

The book deals mostly with our lives in prison, those political detainees arrested together with me, and others following that.

Said Zahari

Mostly what gets people's attention is seeing their own dog's picture in the magazine.

Dick Samuels

The group is made up mostly of motorcyclists who have served in the military, but it's not a requirement.

Kurt Mayer

It's run mostly by volunteers but we have some paid personnel. We turn the funds back to the community.

Penny Hall

We were called the Fighting Scotts. We sparred, but mostly we just protected each other, didn't fight.

Keith Scott

For the last 35 years, it was mostly bad memories.

Red Dawson

The comet is mostly empty, mostly porous. Probably all the way in, there is no bulk ice. The ice is all in the form of tiny grains.

Michael A'hearn

Mostly, we'll be teaching them how to take care of business. But we want them to know how to have fun too.

Meredith Williams

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Bill Owen

I think a reduction in 2005 was mostly because of the absence of supply of lots. Quite a few of my builder friends are out of land.

Pat Neal

I am very intellectual about things so music is mostly a response to life and my ideas and the way things are versus the way things potentially or should be.

Chase Westfall

We see major headwinds for Kellwood, more than any other apparel company. We believe its problems are mostly brand and distribution problems, and we don't expect these problems to reverse.

Lizabeth Dunn

I always say the connection is in the blood and it is true, but I believe it is mostly in the Spirit and in the relationships we have.

Daniel Smith

It will be mostly sunny all weekend with some scattered clouds.

Nick Petro

The comet is mostly empty.

Michael A'hearn

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Ambrose Bierce

[They were also told to exercise daily.] It was mostly walking, ... We asked them to do yoga and meditation.

Dean Ornish

I thank God, mostly. Because of him, I am here.

Randal Mccloy Jr

Boris Podolsky: James! How's the rat business? James Moreland: Well, actually it's mostly students I'm experimenting on now. Kurt Godel: My God, the mazes must be enormous.

Adeel Iqbal

Mostly what it is, it's cleanup.

Mike Foster

People around here think we're mostly a wood company. But economically, we're a plastic company. We buy more plastic, in dollars, than we do wood.

Alan Ramsey

The English major background is mostly helpful. But sometimes because of the amount of criticism and analysis that we do in class, it is detrimental because of how critical we are with our own work.

Bryan Kish

The most that they do is run around. Some do dance, but they mostly run around.

Tina Carter

Really, it's mostly confidence, ... He has a way of mixing fine tailoring with clothes that are relaxed, so he looks equally put-together and casual at the same time.

David Granger

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Graeme Edge

This is a story that has mostly been overshadowed by the larger story of the Beatles' breakup and his death. It got everyone excited in our group and in theatrical.

Kevin Beggs

I think in general the markets have been quite jittery and mostly influenced by the sell-off in Saudi Arabia, even though the fundamentals of the markets are not the same.

Hashem Montasser

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

Vince Carter

Still, [Japan] will keep its low interest rate environment. And more and more money from individuals and (corporations) will flow into America and Europe -- mostly to North America.

Jun Ishii

We'll be mostly putting out fires.

Rease Watson

Mostly about the trouble I got into around here when I was a kid.

Bob West

Mostly in the parking lots.

Phil Johnson

Most of our top scorers are underclassmen, four sophomores and two juniors. Our top seniors are mostly defensemen.

Steve Ivcic

So I have those. But mostly, I just have the memories.

Ryan Kalil

I am here mostly to listen and understand the perspective of all the parties involved.

James Steinberg

I lived in a condo in [Jersey] but spent my downtime in New York City, mostly at the Shark Bar. They have great Southern food: catfish, collard greens and fried chicken.

Tony Massenburg

They mostly hunt them with hounds around here.

Dan Mannor

They hit mostly all their shots. They got out on the break, they ran. Everything we wanted to do going into the game, they did.

Kevin Dillard

Leadership in the commando positions has been turned over to Badr. And new recruits are mostly Badr.

Matt Sherman

This time the drag was mostly on the local side, which was down 2%, while national was flat.

Marci Ryvicker

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

Since 1995, it's been mostly active, and this year is a clear example of that.

Phil Klotzbach

There is some overreaction. It has a lot to do with education. The biggest problem we have right now is mostly consumer and user education.

Rob Ayoub

Mostly skaters gave us an idea of just what kind of things they're looking for in a skate park. Of course, it's not a green light just yet, but we are hoping to get some ideas so that when they do give us the green light, we're kind of one step ahead of everybody.....

Kelly Gutierrez

That four-game stretch felt like 10 games. Some because of the way we lost but mostly because these guys are winners and we expect to win.

Jeremy Moore

Our suppliers are mostly down east, and when we were calling saying we need 140 hippos, the first question is, 'What are you doing with all these hippos?' It's funny, because down there there's no demand for it.

John Tait

I like to paint nudes mostly.

Cleo Moore

He threw mostly fastballs and mixed in a little curve. We just didn't hit the ball very well. He throws pretty hard, hit some good spots and got us to chase pitches a little bit.

Steve Rice

They're mostly there to tell jokes. In our group we get involved in current events and have programs.

Jack Templeton

We've always had industry support in the past. The difference is that it used to be mostly behind the camera. Diane was instrumental in bringing in more in-front-of-the-camera people.

Linda Dishman