Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I don't know what goes on on ships, ... I can tell you exactly what goes on on the streets of New York City. You are safe. People are nice. It is exciting. It is easy to get around. We have rooms reserved for every member of Congress and for every delegate.

Claire McCaskill

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Dick Durbin

I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,

Laura Castro

I'm hoping something will happen soon in Congress.

Lennart Johansson

I'll decide tomorrow after the Uefa Congress whether I will speak or not.

Bob Loevy

If the other senator from your state is in your party, you don't have to feel great pressure to speak out on every issue. They need to get their message out so that the other congressman from the other party doesn't establish his point of view.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Paul Gada

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

Dominic Konstam

They have to tread carefully, they don't need to raise rates so they become restrictive as there is no inflation, so they are fumbling for a neutral funds rate.

Scott Cooley

Any time you let a stock run up to 40 percent of your portfolio, you have to have a lot of convictions. There aren't a lot of funds like this.

Elizabeth Henrickson

All the funds are commingled, and you get your percentage of the increase.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

Saifur Rahman

Availability of funds is not at all a problem for implementing any development project.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

John Grahame

I don't know Robert at all. Actually, this will be the first time I meet him. He called me a month ago and said some type of quote appeared. I never read it. He said whatever it was, it was taken out of context.

Dan Ross

If you told me a week before the meet that we were going to be 16th, we wouldn't have even went.

Greg Marsden

I never would have predicted at this point in the season we would go 197. I try not to worry about (the judging) this year, because I know from meet to meet there are going to be some real differences.

Virginia Satir

I am me and I am okay.

Robin Quivers

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Kristin Armstrong

Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

Ashley Judd

I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says, "The realm of the spirit is roomy and broad. It is open to all." I've absolutely staked my life on that.

Bernie Siegel

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

Keith Henson

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm learning how to taste everything.

Wayne White

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Stephen King

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Steven Pressfield

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Esther Hicks

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

Walter Bagehot

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Wayne Dyer

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Barbara Hambly

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

Thomas a Kempis

Temptations discover what you are.

Thomas a Kempis

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Randy Degasperin

At the time, she was not deemed a threat to others.

John Gage

This threat of cronyism and patronage, I don't think it's a threat anymore. I think it's a promise.

Suzanne Vega

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Tim Kaine

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.