Straw Quotes

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportive audiences.

This may have been the straw that breaks the camel's back with regard to attacks on fellow members of Islam.

I think it would be the final straw for a lot of people who are on the fence on the death penalty.

In lots of places, the Internet is like trying to shovel oatmeal down a straw. You know it's very difficult because the amount of bits that are being communicated and the services and routers in many places really aren't ready for the capacity.

This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke the camel's back.

I don't see why we should not invite (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld, (British Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw, (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, and other foreign and defense ministers.

Often the straw that broke the camel's back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn't appear to be related to what's going on at the farm.

The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.

For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.

The secretary-general welcomes the initiative of the British Foreign Secretary, H.E. Mr. Jack Straw, to undertake a mission to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey this week.

The last straw would be when I told them that I had been having suicidal thoughts, ... But once again, I was the one who wanted to get help; I initiated it.

It's another straw on the camel's back toward higher rates, ... but it isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back.

That, according to defense attorneys, was the straw that broke the camel's back.

That was it, that was the last straw.

The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

If the decision was made by consensus or straw vote in the executive session, that was a clear violation of the open meetings law.

We have the Indiana Jones hat covered in both the wool felt and the straw. But people will come in and see what we have and pick what they like.

[Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about] Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.

This is the last straw.

I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.