Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Gail Kelly

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Deborah Eisenberg

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Valentina Tereshkova

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Barack Obama

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

Noreena Hertz

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Marc Bulger

We have the luxury of having four really good receivers when we are in our quad package, ... At the same time, since Isaac is going to be down, Dane (Looker) can step in and play the fourth receiver, but Kevin, like I said after the game, could start for most teams. And there are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we will miss, route-running and blocking and just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go, but Kevin, he knows what he's doing.

Eric Davis

Tyler has been blocking a lot of shots for us this season. He not only blocks shots but he changes shots.

Mike Nolan

We've lost production out of the offense. That hurts, and you have to try to make up for that in other ways. We certainly have confidence in our two wide receivers from a playmaker standpoint, as well as at running back, (but) you need somebody to stretch the middle of the field, and our tight end position has been more in a blocking mode than anything else.

Peter Riegert

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Darrell Blackman

We just went back and practiced after the Virginia Tech game and worked on some of the mistakes that we made in running our inside zones and stuff like that. Cleaned up a little blocking and stuff that we might have messed up in the first game.

Michelle Buckley

I think I've improved on my blocking a lot. My quickness at the net, transitioning back-and-forth, has gotten a lot better.

Sam Simpson

Johnson is a player, but he also got good blocking upfront. They put eight players back to stop the pass, so we've got to run.

Tom Sawyer

We had too many missed blocking assignments, and that takes you out of your game,

Gareth Bale

Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

John Smith

The American way is very much about passing on knowledge. This person will become an adviser, a point of contact for the public.

David Bone

We have virtually no records, ... Everyone who we know had an interest in the mausoleum was contacted long ago, or had the opportunity to contact us (after public notices about the demolition).

Thomas Steg

We have to use existing contacts to contribute to de-escalation.

Ruth Ozeki

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Peter Grant

We've made contact to say we're interested. We would love the opportunity to speak to him. If Roy decides he wants to come to London - then bang, we're in for him.

Mike Holmgren

Usually, when there's contact like that, it's a no-call. But they called it and that's that. That's the way the day went.

Don Black

With the exponential growth of the Net we were able to reach many thousands of people that we otherwise would never have been in contact with our publications and organizations.

Suresh Kalmadi

We are hoping that all four Indian winners of Miss World and Miss Universe contests will be there.

Mike Ferda

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

Bob Parsons

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

Paradorn Srichaphan

Tough matches prepare you better for contests ahead.

Saint Ambrose

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Leonard Hamilton

Our team has grown up a little bit. We had some great contests when they had some looks, we got some big rebounds and we hit some very important free throws down the stretch. That's a team that's maturing.

Bruce Silverglade

Some of these fellows are CEOs. They're attorneys. They're doctors. They're big shots in industry. They have big egos. They have one of these contests and lose, you don't see them anymore.

Carolyn Wilman

Now that sounds like a lot but its not a lot when you think of how many a day. I submit about 200 a day and that is not 200 contests - - that's 200 ballots.

Joel Salatin

Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.

Eric Ueland

The political will is there. The need is very real. And the urge to help constituents directly and quickly is omnipresent.

Mark Zuckerberg

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Mark Zuckerberg

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

Lloyd Axworthy

We have called in the Malaysian High Commissioner today to register our consternation directly with governmental authorities over Mr. Anwar's trial and sentencing,

Ed Bradley

It directly contradicts, though, what the president and his staff were telling us.

James Cook

I think it would be nice to be able to talk directly to the surface.

Jason Ferguson

I thought of my knee, ... and I jumped. He missed me, but I landed directly on my (right) knee. When I first landed, I didn't feel anything. I was happy. I was relieved he didn't hit my leg. But when I got up, I instantly felt it. When I got in the huddle, I looked at Davone (Bess, the left slotback), and I told him my knee hurt.

James Rubin

We are not saying that these individuals are, to our knowledge, directly responsible for war crimes,

Pat Courtney

We have not heard that directly from the federation.

Jackie Wagstaff

I think she did her job as well as she was instructed to do her job.

Michael Rodgers

We have instructed the administrators to do everything possible to get this spending under control.

E. Hicks

It is for this reason I have instructed lawyers to issue the petition on his behalf,

Javed Miandad

I told the caller that first they should let me know who had instructed for my presence in the meeting. Was it the Presidency or the Board?

Yogi Berra

For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes

Bus Cook

They've instructed him to work out somewhere else other than their facility.

Saad Hariri

instructed and obliged him to give a perjury.

Olli Rehn

Today we are marking the start of the talks

Rudy Gay

I was already marking down that game. Now, definitely.

Paul Stranz

She was pretty strong. Mentally we weren't marking up like we should. I was just puzzled. I hadn't seen us play like that.

John Rutledge

Sun is marking time, treading water on revenues.

Howard Davidowitz

Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Carl Yastrzemski

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Barbra Streisand

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

Arsene Wenger

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

Bill Vaughan

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

Bill Vaughan

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Bill Bradley

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Bill Burton

While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.