Seal Quotations

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

When we came back out on floor, we had five gymnasts who took that time to rock and roll and that was fun to see. Then we went to vault and rocked there with five great vaults to seal the win.

With the yacht inverted, preparing it had to have been extremely difficult. Salvage crew would have had to cut the mast off, seal the boat, turn it over and then tow it.

We're looking forward to facing San Antonio Christian against on Monday. We'll try to stay focus on finishing the district undefeated, seal up the district championship and get ready for the playoffs.

The only time we saw visible spoilage at the walls was when we failed to get a good seal between the sidewall and top sheets of film.

We thought we could run on Churchill. We thought we could break pressure and get some easy scores. ... Normally, we would run some clock at the end of the game, but when we tried to, it got real physical and it looked like the officials weren't going to call anything, so we kept attacking and we got a couple of baskets at the end that helped seal it for us.

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

We've seen a lot of houses built in the last five years, and they are finding out that the seal isn't as good as they thought it would be.

Now they will also look for a seal under the hood that the truck is being built to U.S. standards.

Never leave a man behind. That is the SEAL creed. That is what this case is about.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

If we really want to take away all weapons, it is necessary to seal all the channels of their delivery to the region,

If things go well with a military strike, the market gives it a seal of approval and moves upward.

I didn't notice Strahan was gone. But I thought it was strange that when I went around the right side, there was nobody there to seal the end off.

I am a little disappointed. Some of these guys are here for the second time and thought they would just come in and seal the deal. Everyone here wants the exact same thing.

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for me, what with overcoming Barcelona, winning my first cap for England and now signing this extension,

I had it within my grasp. It was really close and hopefully I can seal the deal next time.

I feel like we have to go down to Miami and seal the deal. We have to get this win against Miami.

Given that the federal government subsidized the return of the commercial seal hunt (between 1996 and 2001) we think this would be a good investment to see its end.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

He is not a Navy SEAL and he's not a CIA operative.

He is a fifth-year senior, and he is a leader on this team. He has worked hard on his free throws, and it worked out perfect that he was able to seal the game with his free throw.

He nailed the big one. We believe we have the goaltending that can seal the deal.

I actually liked the fact we broke the seal on Huet. Then he let in the soft one in the third, so I thought it was our night.

I actually liked the fact we broke the seal on Huet.

King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.

I suspect that the whale that approached thought he was a harbor seal splashing.

It could either push itself straight up and down or pull itself forward. It more likely flopped around like a seal rather than walked like a horse.

I think it was a fully deserved victory. However we created a lot of chances but we didn't take them and that meant we had to wait until the 82nd minute to seal the result after our keeper made two important saves,

I was able to open up a box of candy for the first time, the plastic seal around the candy, ... It was nice to see what I could finally do, that I have been missing out on all these years.

I will be doing DALLAS. I heard LARRY (HAGMAN) approved of me. We were in PRIMARY COLORS together and so it was sweet for him to give his seal of approval.

James Lee Witt is giving his seal of approval to some companies, and I question whether that is appropriate as you leave government. He is lending his credibility as a public official to help companies advance in Washington.

I see a time where there might be a Good-Housekeeping ?-style seal of approval for the security of sites. There are organizations that do that now for privacy. Why not for security?

I see a time where there might be a Good-Housekeeping ­-style seal of approval for the security of sites. There are organizations that do that now for privacy. Why not for security?

Overtime flashed in my mind once, when Nikki Wood was on the line, but after that, I didn't think about it again because I knew we were going to seal it.

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades. With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades, ... With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Or do they say: He has forged a lie against Allah? But if Allah pleased, He would seal your heart; and Allah will blot out the falsehood and confirm the truth with His words; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the breasts.

I was trying to screen on the wing, come back to the block and seal up. I was getting the shots I was looking for, and they were falling.

I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

We now start a five-game home stand and hope to seal up a playoff spot while we are at it.

That was our game to seal it, ... We came out like it was our biggest final ever.

We do understand it is an important game. Every game is important it will be nice (to seal it). But I do not think we will deviate too much from our plans for this game.

We've got SEAL teams in the field that are very close to net zero in terms of energy and water, so they can stay out almost indefinitely without being resupplied.

We are not playing tomorrow so I'll have a chance to rest it and hopefully I can get back to about 80 percent before we play Philadelphia. Until we seal up that five spot (in the Eastern Conference), there will be no rest. I just have to keep going full-throttle until we get that five seed. We're getting banged up at the worst time and it's going to be a battle the rest of the way, but we have enough talent on this team to keep winning.

When any official sign or seal is being used inappropriately the party is notified,

We did some things better (Friday). We just couldn't seal the deal. In the second half, they changed some things that we had trouble with.

We have confidence in the abilities of the dedicated officers on both sides of the border to detect and seal tunnels such as these.

We got into foul trouble, and that kind of took the wind out of our sails. It was there for us to win. We just didn't seal the deal.

The passage of time and Public Storage's price appreciation has allowed Public Storage to seal a deal that is not materially different from the one offered last July.

When you have a tight end who can both seal the edge and split Cover 2, I mean, what better position can there be? ... If I'm holding the edge and we're getting 200 yards rushing a game, and then the next play I'm catching a ball for a touchdown, I mean, you can't beat it.

What she did today, I think she ultimately had to do. She was putting her seal of approval on something that every episode of her show rails against. At some point she had to fix this. When the dust has settled, this probably has helped her. She's stopped the controversy.

We're talking about grand jury secrecy in part, and we're talking about a different type of motion that has been filed under seal and is to remain under seal until the court orders its disclosure.

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

This week's CPI will seal (the Fed's decision). If we get a number at consensus or a little above, that'll tip it towards a June increase.

This week's CPI will seal (the Fed's decision), ... If we get a number at consensus or a little above, that'll tip it towards a June increase.

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

We had a golden opportunity with this team, and we didn't seal the deal. The last two games, free throws have killed us. I've been telling them all year that it'll all come down to free throws.

We won a lot more games than we lost when I was down there, and that was the goal, ... I went down there to try and help seal a leak and patch a hole. I'd like to think I did that for the most part. I mean, I certainly didn't pitch as well as I would have liked, but we played well and won games while I was down there.

Wet Seal is a turnaround situation that has been helped by strong industry vendor credit support and solid communications with their vendors.

We should be seeing literally tens of thousands of seal pups out here, and at best, we've seen maybe a couple of hundred. The seals simply aren't out here.

We didn't make the plays when it counted. We can't wait until the fourth quarter to start locking down. They made the plays and we didn't make the plays to seal the deal for us.

BE STILL: Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screenOf silence at the portal of your will.Relax, and let the world go by unheard.And seal your lips with some all-sacred word.

Do they have an impact? Absolutely. People feel they have a 'Good Housekeeping' seal of approval, that any CD they see in a Starbucks already has the Starbucks seal of approval, and therefore they're going to like it.

An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Is not your insistence on holding the elections as scheduled anything but putting your seal of approval on the illegal actions of the Guardian Council?

The seal between the mask and the face is critical for drug delivery. If the mask doesn't fit tightly enough, you're sucking in air from outside the mask that contains no medicine.

I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.

I've observed the seal hunt at close range for seven years. I've routinely witnessed conscious seals dragged across the ice with boat hooks, wounded seals left to choke on their own blood, and seals being skinned alive. The commercial seal hunt is inherently cruel, it is a national disgrace.

I've observed the seal hunt at close range for seven years. I routinely witness conscious seals dragged across the ice with boathooks, wounded seals left to choke on their own blood and seals being skinned alive.

These next two games basically seal our season. If we can win these next two, we've accomplished our goals. That's the thing we need to do, close the season out like we wanted to.

Someone's going to have to take that big fullback and someone is going to have to seal off the perimeter for us to be successful.

Now everything has got a seal on it.

That's for streets that aren't as far gone like Brown west of Merriman. It's a newer street, ... We might have the money to slurry seal Log Cabin Drive, too.

The mistake that they made is that when they kicked out Saddam, they decided to dismantle the whole authority structure of Iraq. ... We never sent enough troops and didn't have enough troops to control or seal the borders,

You've got to seal the envelope and put it in the mail. And we didn't seal the envelope.

This deal is a winner for J.P. Morgan. The bank is already the dominant brand in the New York metropolitan market and this deal will seal that dominance.

This band really speaks to college kids and the response for them is overwhelming. They were what we thought of as the future of rock music, and we wanted to get behind them and give them our seal of approval.

There was virtually no protection from the blast, ... The very flatness of the city center helped seal its destruction. The lack of any warning also contributed: Nobody was in the shelters when the bomb exploded. The whole city was taken by surprise. Only freakish accidents of fate ensured survival. Eizo Nomura was one such survivor, a clerk in the Fuel Distribution and Control Cooperative, a concrete building 100 meters from the hypocenter. Moments before the explosion, he had gone down into the basement to retrieve a document his chief had forgotten. Quite possibly he was the closest man to the hypocenter to survive.

This is the seal of approval of the return to health of the banking system. It's also a sign of the normalization of the economy.

This is the seal of approval of the return to health of the banking system, ... It's also a sign of the normalization of the economy.

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

It seems to be a combination of things. A number of different things have come together that caused concern. In 2000-2001 we had a severe drought and we lost the class of several years, especially on the Cape, when they were not able to get out of the ponds. There is also increased predation from cormorants, the seal population is high on Cape and the striped bass population is up. And there's the combo of fishing and poaching.

It's a tough play for Ryan. It's a little bit of a turn-back there. He followed through, but he probably didn't need to hit him like that, just seal the guy off.

It was close the whole game. In the end they committed a few more fouls and we were able make the free-throws and seal the game.

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,