I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program which is a series of private plans.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan I'm a 'Wire' fan I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.