I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute
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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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It is early days yet, but it may be possible to find some small encouragement in the fact that, at least for a group of companies, compensation increases for CEOs, while far� exceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.
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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 of the population.
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In a survey taken several years ago, all incoming freshman at MIT were asked if they expected to graduate in the top half of their class. Ninety-seven percent responded that they did.
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In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
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In a survey when asked what you fear most from the opposite sex, the majority of men said they are afraid women will laugh at them. The majority of women said they are afraid men will rape and/or murder them.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute on; but I wish that I could get away And go home to the village of Bruton.
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
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We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the American people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
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In an Orkin Exterminating Co. survey of what pests Pittsburghers fear most, 1.3% named their spouses and kids.
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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