An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
‐‐ Gary Miller
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.
‐‐ Russell Pearce
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
‐‐ Adam Michnik
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
‐‐ Tony Campolo
An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
‐‐ Valentino Garavani
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
‐‐ Robert Schumann
An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
‐‐ Pope Francis
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille
An example of a trend that I tried that didn't exactly work out would be high-waisted jeans. We see them everywhere, but what I realized is that they don't work for every body type.
‐‐ Katherine Schwarzenegger
An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
‐‐ Ada Louise Huxtable
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
‐‐ John Locke
An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige
An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.
‐‐ Richard Branson
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
‐‐ John McCarthy
An 'exchange' would allow everyone to choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options - just like federal employees and Congress do right now - and allow their employer to help pay for it.
‐‐ Andrew P. Harris
An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.
‐‐ Debbie Ford
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
‐‐ Bo Bennett
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
‐‐ John Henry Patterson
An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
‐‐ Gabriele Nanni
An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
‐‐ Italo Calvino
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias
An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.
‐‐ Henry Spencer
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
‐‐ John Barton
An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
‐‐ Gardner Dozois
An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
‐‐ Morarji Desai
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
‐‐ Niels Bohr
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
‐‐ Steven Weinberg
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
‐‐ Nicholas M. Butler
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
‐‐ Edwin Meese
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
‐‐ Edward de Bono
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
‐‐ Tom Hopkins
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
‐‐ Niels Bohr
An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
‐‐ Alec Issigonis
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
‐‐ Levi Strauss
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis
An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
‐‐ Johannes Stark
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
‐‐ Duke of Wellington
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
‐‐ Benoit Mandelbrot
An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.
‐‐ John Lone