Phased Quotes

#1. The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.

Frederick Lenz

#2. A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

Jonathan Glover

#3. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

#4. Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

Rachel Kushner

#5. I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.

Monica Raymund

#6. America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

Peter Hook

#7. Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.

Patricia Cornwell

#8. Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively those prayers are phased.

Susanna Clarke

#9. Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home.

Barack Obama

#10. [T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.

Roger Pilon

#11. The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

Mark Zandi

#12. The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which

Neal Stephenson

#13. Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.

Ingrid Newkirk

#14. Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.

Baba Kalyani

#15. I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Andy Dick

#16. Are you all right?"
"Oh my god! I phased!"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you?"
"It was strange."
"I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was totally your fault."
"I like to think so, yes."
"Tee hee.

Joss Whedon

#17. Nothing phased Nathan. "It's

Jojo Moyes

#18. In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Michael Eric Dyson

#19. I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Candice Bergen

#20. Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

Thomas Friedman

#21. If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

Kit Bond

#22. Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

Mara Wilson

#23. It's a juggernaut, yeah ... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Matthew Vaughn

#24. It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anita Brookner

#25. Two cops Tasered me at the same time once, and it barely phased me.

R.K. Lilley

#26. My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

Andy Behrman

#27. At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Candice Bergen

#28. The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Waverley Root

#29. I've learned that anything is possible.

Gabrielle

#30. Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Don Meyer

#31. What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

Ira Sachs

#32. Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?

H.S. Crow

#33. Your schedule and your spending describe what you really love in life.

Mike Murdock

#34. I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

John Webster

#35. Don't you think you're quite young?'
'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

Paulo Coelho