Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Peck

I think we always have that opportunity. This team has demonstrated we are capable of accepting a challenge.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Barbara Spiegel

In the big city you get a little bit more of the mocking, staring and the 'hey look' stuff, ... Here, it's so small and accepting it didn't faze anybody.

Mikaela Shiffrin

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

John Barry

In the financial markets you are paid for accepting risk. There is more reason to take risk now mainly because people who have taken the risk over the past five years have been richly rewarded.

Elizabeth Anderson

I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Scott Savin

I think with some of the new trainers and some of the other guys who have been coming here, it's going to be a fun meet with plenty of betting opportunities.

Craig Parry

I played with Tiger and Vijay in the Mercedes. I said to my brother and my wife, 'Tiger's playing unbelievable. Vijay is putting unbelievable.' A betting man would back Tiger, the way he's playing.

Sung Sohn

Clearly, as a betting man, I would have to say the probability of a recession has gone up significantly,

Tom O'Neil

Everyone in the world is picking Reese Witherspoon but me. I'm betting on the last-movie-seen theory. When there are upsets at the Oscars, they tend to be obscure movies that were probably the last DVD screener on the Academy's stack.

Micah Roberts

The betting trends have been public and sharp money coming in on the favorites all week.

Ray Murrihy

There was an application from Waterhouse's solicitors to have the matter heard in camera on the grounds some of the information was sensitive in respect to betting transactions between parties.

Howard Schwartz

It's probably outstripped sports betting as the most popular area,

Rich Baccellieri

They were betting New England like the other team wasn't even going to show up.

Mona Simpson

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

William Korman

I take no issue with why she chose not to work here. But to then insult me by saying I'm not a real lawyer - that's offensive.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Joe Sparico

I guess she just chose me to lean on. I'm just glad she's happy and home now.

Kevin Bacon

Interestingly enough, (a decision of Atom's) is possibly part of the reason why we're unable to over-turn this rating because he chose to shoot it in one master,

Jean Chretien

chose to ignore or distort the clear evidence.

Charles Gibson

chose Pitcairn because of its people. They're friendly and they'll talk to you -- and I've learned a lot from them.

John Legend

I'm truly humbled that you chose me for this.

Aden Darity

I'm honored that they chose us to represent hip-hop.

Bob Cimmino

Iona did a great job recruiting him back in high school. Considering he chose St. John's and stayed close to home, I could definitely see Iona as a real possibility.

Jerry Yang

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

John Challenger

These are the rock stars of the finance world. There have been some extraordinary deals, and mergers and acquisitions activity.

Dr. Katz

There are minimal differences between races. We make a mistake thinking we're all that different from each other. The differences in our health are more related to lifestyle, education, finances and poverty than they are to genetics.

Jack McCann

I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Department) of Finance and Administration would send us packages and that our officers would be paid every two weeks.

Avigdor Lieberman

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Abel Ferrara

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Robert Wiley

He's just fought his way, as he normally does through that, and his form in the WAFL has been exceptional, so it is a reward for his performances in the WAFL and (it's great for him) to just be able to get out there and play footy.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Gary Ruskin

The purpose of the Mobile Marketing Association is to safeguard this new form of spam that is literally in your face.

Tom Demko

We've been waiting for a game like this. That form has been missing from our play. We rebounded well, and our big guys played like big guys. We were able to run.

Dirk Kempthorne

It is my honor to serve with you, the people of Idaho. This great state, this forty-third star in the galaxy of states that form the greatest nation in the world.

David Sifry

Hyper-linking is a form of etiquette. It's a way of tapping someone on the shoulder with a sign of respect.

Todd Hollandsworth

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

Edward de Bono

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Barry McCaffrey

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Brian Dawkins

We've been through so much before as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound,

Ian Livingstone

I thought there was going to be a limit to paper and pencil games and I really wanted to get into the next medium,

Sam Huff

I thought they might win 10 games last year. If they win 10 games this year, I think it would be a hell of a successful season. Right now I think Joe Gibbs would settle for 10. Who wouldn't?

Ed Pultz

I thought that was one of her better games at managing the game. She played under control, rebounded and played pretty good defense.

Stacey Phillips

I think we had a good taste of what it takes to be successful. For six games and winning a tournament -- they got a big mouthful of success.

Mario Batali

I just was introduced to the writings of Lucius Beebe, and I'm going to read him.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Norman Lear

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

John Corcoran

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Pete Vasil

I thought there were opportunities for us, but we had trouble finishing.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Wayne Dyer

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Tony Yayo

You know I'm always in trouble.

Carol Moore

I'm going to be in trouble when they go.

Jennifer Wilbanks

I'm doing well. I need to get back to work. I don't want to get into trouble.

Jose Saramago

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

Napoleon Hill

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Fay Weldon

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Fernando Pessoa

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Will Durant

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Vanessa Hudgens

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Valerie Plame

Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

Cary Fukunaga

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.