He's medically in stable condition, but he faces a long, long recovery.


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We cannot reveal which hospital he is in. His condition is serious, but stable.
BILLY JONES
We'll keep him medically sedated as long as possible.
DR. RICHARD SHANNON
He is in a stable condition, which is an indication that he is recovering well.
DIANA ROSS
His condition remains critical but he has been stable overnight. There have been no adverse events.
DR. RICHARD SHANNON
He is in stable condition and has spoken with his family on several occasions.
ADAM YOUNG
People are being told they're giving money to diving research, and in reality, the money's going for...
DICK LONG
The employees and Duke University have only heard one side of the story. These people have good jobs...
DICK LONG
I graduated 17 seniors last year. We've got a nice young team coming in. I thought if there was goin...
DICK LONG
His condition is stable and he is improving. He is doing remarkably well.
JACK DUNN
We don't know yet how long he will be in rehab, but continue to be very pleased with his progress an...
ELIZABETH CHRISTIAN
We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts
MIKE BROWN
This certainly isn't where he wanted to be. He's in good and stable condition, but he'll be watching...
GARY SHUTT
We are a long way from a self-sustaining recovery,
ANDREAS REES
As long as the drug that is being prescribed is medically necessary, the plan will cover this drug.
PETER ASHKENAZ
Stop staring at my dick," he growled.

Oh, yes it was definitely an illusion. "Barrons lov...
KAREN MARIE MONING
He still has a long recovery ahead of him but things are going much better than the experts thought....
BODE MILLER
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
SARAH VOWELL
He is in a critical condition. The doctors are trying their level best. We are all praying for his e...
HARSH VARDHAN
A modest slowdown, if conducive to the long-term, stable development, is very good.
ZHENG JINGPING
We kept trying to find stable members. We went through a lot of member and style changes, but every ...
BRYAN KISH
We felt we discharged this patient in a stable condition, and a surveyor, reviewer, thought differen...
LYNN OLSON
People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
CHAKA FATTAH
We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate i...
HENRY PAULSON
He is in stable condition. He'll be here at the hospital for the next two days. He's in good spirits...
JOHN HAHN
The recovery is proceeding, but gradually, and that's actually healthy. It's the kind of recovery ce...
ANTHONY CHAN
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending pro...
SAM GRAVES
If he does come back, that's great, but we're going to go on with the playoffs thinking that he's no...
MATHIEU DANDENAULT
Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES
Even if you are a long time after your stroke, there is a hope of gaining recovery.
GITENDRA USWATTE
Half of the monkeys were recuperating; and the other half continued in a stable condition with our t...
DONG JUNXING
In a perfect world, if we had known how the recovery would go, maybe he would have continued to play...
JOE SPEED
As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very l...
IRWIN REDLENER
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
NEIL GAIMAN
The beluga sturgeon, one of the most valuable and threatened fishes in the world, greatly deserves t...
ELLEN PIKITCH
There were some long faces, but I think we found out that we have to stick together as a team. It do...
JODIE RUNNER
With Bush, I've long thought this presidency has been swallowed by his vice president. Dick Cheney i...
JOHN DEAN
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scru...
ROBERT DALLEK
We're going to be in a recovery effort for a good long time. But the state is not facing the same pr...
SCOTT ADCOCK
I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
CAMPBELL SCOTT
I hope before too long to be sharing news of my good health and recovery.
DANA REEVE
Long term for all franchises, especially for a well-run franchise like the Avalanche, having a predi...
GARY BETTMAN
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial ...
BEN BERNANKE
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Trut...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
I'm not a doctor so don't ask me to engage in speculation. I think at this stage, the best thing not...
RAANAN GISSIN
I have consistently supported tax relief to create a more robust economy and to stimulate long-term ...
TODD AKIN
well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN
He was not a [Thomas] Jefferson or a [George] Washington. But he was a solid second-tier.
DICK CHEATHAM
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long t...
BARTON GELLMAN
Sen. Lott feels any time he can show his colleagues up close what Mississippians are facing then cer...
LEE YOUNGBLOOD
My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON
My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON
Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD
He's come a long way, but he's still got a long, long way to go before he becomes a good basketball ...
DALE OSBOURNE
I think compared with recent days ... there are significant changes in the prime minister's conditio...
DR. YORAM WEISS
You've had this long-term recovery and basically there aren't too many people in the United States w...
IRWIN COHEN
But he was only filmed from behind or in long shot.
ALEXANDER SOKUROV
Japan is still at a very nascent stage of recovery from the long market slump and that recovery will...
ISAHO NAKASHO
Consumers are still the weakest element within the recovery. European companies are still reluctant ...
DOMINIC WHITE
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
A dispersing wolf doesn't mean that wolf recovery has started in Colorado. It's cool the wolf went a...
ED BANGS
This will be a long recovery. This storm shook us badly, but there is an amazing recovery effort tak...
MATT SNORTON
This (rescue) operation will not stop. We will continue as long as there is hope. . . . We don't kno...
JUAN REBOLLEDO
God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE
There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forwar...
GEORGE DILLER
And with the morn those angel faces smile/ Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
In many ways, we are in uncharted territory in predicting his recovery. The long-term outlook will b...
DR. JULIAN BAILES
In Europe we think that the current policy of the ECB is appropriate... At least that is until there...
RODRIGO RATO
There is no substitute for this kind of broad-based, direct public input in a recovery planning proc...
BRAD GAIR
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long ...
KIM WILDE
There's no natural condition that we know about in a really long time where the greenhouse gas level...
EDWARD BROOK
Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter...
DAVID FROST
They remain stable over long periods, do not require light to be activated and can be applied to vir...
MICHAEL RUBNER
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery an...
SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL
As long as the BOJ raises interest rates in tandem with the economic recovery, there should be no ne...
SUSUMU ABE
Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
As long as we see signs of stable growth in the economy, you could have gains in the market. Things ...
JANE COFFEY
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN
We have three others in the stable, but he was tops. He always finished in the money.
LEROY GOTTLIEB
It takes a fairly long period of time to get someone to normalize their eating and get them back to ...
JODY RHOMBERG
The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the ...
AMANDA LINDHOUT
So long as there are no more major skeletons to come out, we may have reached a low point. The recov...
PETER COGLIATTI
I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY
Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for...
STEPHENIE MEYER
But we hope he won't be out that long.
LUIS OLIVEIRA GONCALVES
I don't think there's any question in ethical thinking that if treatment is medically futile, you do...
DR. BARRY TEPPERMAN
I feel hopeful and confident that the ultimate prize -- stable, inclusive government in Northern Ire...
PETER MANDELSON
The rain was another step in the recovery, but it all depends on what happens over the next three or...
STEVE BAYS
Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of lif...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
The prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped. He was then put in the n...
SHLOMO MOR YOSEF
I thought he did a great job at Jefferson. They were always feisty as heck. It will not be the same ...
EARL GARCIA
We've known for a while that we are going to have long lines at the confessional booth and long face...
PAUL MCMANUS
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
GARY MCCORD
We're going to spend whatever it takes to help the Guidant management team in cardiac rhythm managem...
LARRY BEST
I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON
If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then mo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON