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The last thing the Province needs is a minority government -- Hazel McCallion
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees. -- Hudson Taylor
I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. -- Anthony Bourdain
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. -- Alex Campbell
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. -- Seth Low
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors. -- Phil Klay
God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester." -- Chila Woychik
War is the province of danger. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. -- Stephen Hawking
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. -- Karl Popper
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -- John Lilly
I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. -- Elton John
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. -- Marcus Garvey
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. -- Leonard Cohen
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province. -- Lord Mountbatten
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. -- Liam Neeson
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves. -- Jane Leavy
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. -- David Rockefeller
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. -- Anthony Bourdain
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage. -- Robert Reich
China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained. -- Damon Albarn
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. -- Dorothea Lange
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. -- Marcus Aurelius
For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on. -- Mac DeMarco
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. -- Tom Chatfield
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province. -- Tan Le
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. -- Rick Perlstein
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty. -- John Marshall
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Spontaneity is the province of youth -- Jacqueline Carey
Work is the province of cattle. -- Dorothy Parker
This is the province that pioneered dreaming big, -- Paul Martin
A Court of equity knows its own province. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The inner nature of man is the province of Music. -- Confucius
In the province of the mind, there are no limits. -- John C. Lilly
Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies. -- John McKinley
It is the special province of music to move the heart. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. -- Steve Martin
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province. -- Huston Smith
I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France. -- Jean-Luc Godard
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. -- George Muller
Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face. -- Jim Prentice
The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan. -- Ronald Reagan
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. -- Frederick the Great
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. -- Paula Fox
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason. -- Carl Jung
Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around. -- Scott McClanahan
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. -- Voltaire
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. -- John Marshall
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province. -- Maurice Duplessis
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." -- John Marshall
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square? -- William Wordsworth
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. -- Susan Sontag
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province. -- Henry David Thoreau
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. -- Sara Sheridan
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. -- Agnes Smedley
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. -- Jim Butcher
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! -- Maurice Duplessis
His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. -- Tennessee Williams
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. -- Ben Bernanke
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. -- Ihara Saikaku
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. -- Alfred de Vigny
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. -- Allen Ginsberg
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul -- Robert Henri
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. -- Shawn Amos
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice. -- Alexander Hamilton
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place. -- Ernest Bramah
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings -- Lincoln Steffens
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again. -- Diane Ackerman
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. -- Francis Bacon
I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe. -- Joachim Peiper
Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others. -- Pierre Bourgault
It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer. -- Walt Disney
It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way -- Claude C. Hopkins
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Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats? -- James Nicoll
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable. -- Ivica Dacic
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. -- Henry Walter Bates
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. -- Robert Henri
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. -- Thomas Carlyle
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. -- Sun Tzu
I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province. -- Christy Clark
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed -- Terence McKenna
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth. -- Nick Cave
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can. -- Robert Pyle
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe. -- Nick Denton
The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect. -- John Dryden
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. -- David Whyte
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life." -- David Whyte
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars. -- Caroline Baum
The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided, -- Martti Ahtisaari
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. -- John Shimkus
Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do. -- Rachel Notley
Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see. -- Tom Bowman
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther. -- Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides -- Christopher Flavin
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. -- Jose Saramago
About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick. -- Rachel Martin
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province. -- Virginia Woolf
Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war. -- William Paterson
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events. -- Carl von Clausewitz
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments. -- John Marshall
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself. -- Oren Lyons

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