Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Paterson

We are delighted to win because it's the first time we've beaten the Ospreys, but it was a strange day. We were really motivated and we are usually positive and assertive but it wasn't the case early on and we got ourselves into a bit of trouble. But I think huge credit comes out of the way we fought back.

Samuel Huntington

Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it's the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.

Lorelei Sims

I'm an assertive person who happens to be female. I think you have to be assertive to run for political office.

Marc Crawford

I don't think we were complacent, I don't think that we got the start that we had wanted. We weren't very good on a couple of shifts. We took lazy penalties tonight. We weren't assertive enough when we went to battle.

John Waller

He certainly made big plays. He recognizes that he?s the guy who can make them. He has a great work ethic and I think he?s more assertive going after the football. We must have had 25 seven-on-seven (games) and you could see his confidence level rise. He expects to get the job done.

O. Henry

I have certainly made mistakes in the past by not being more assertive when bumps in the road appeared. Larry, Theo and other managers in the organization do not need me in order to excel at what they do, but I have a responsibility to ensure that divergent views and our overall direction lead to a better and stronger organization. We've averaged winning more than 95 games a year since we purchased the club. We've listened to the fans and improved the fan experience greatly. We have provided excitement during the season as well as the off-season.

LeBron James

We didn't want to get blown out on national TV. I just wanted to be assertive and just try to hit the open shots and drive to the basket, which I'm always capable of doing. So the MVP was never in my mind; just winning the ballgame.

Frank Olivas

The promiscuity of men in both these cultures is generally more acceptable. The thinking is that's OK for men to have side dishes. And that puts women at risk because many of these men don't use condoms. The two cultures are similar because there is a need for female empowerment so women can be assertive in their negotiating skills to get men to use condoms and be tested.

Frank Haith

We need him to be assertive like that and be a low post presence for us to be good.

Kenny Graham

We have an attacking team, and we're hoping to put a lot of pressure on other teams to stop us. We're going to be pretty balanced so defenses won't be able to focus on anybody. We have a lot of confidence going into the season.

Christie Martens

We need to keep going down the same road of improving our short game. To really stay competitive, we need to keep the attacking mentality.

Russell Smith

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Magic Johnson

I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

Larry Keller

We're not attacking the Catholic Church. We're simply suggesting there was a time in its history when the church dealt with molesting priests in a much different manner than it does now.

Mark McKinnon

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

Bob Bork

It defies understanding, from our perspective. One can speculate, one, that the ACLU has been captured by the homosexual-rights movement, and so therefore they are attacking the Boy Scouts and friends of the Boy Scouts as a way of punishing us for having rights that the Supreme Court has affirmed. The other thing that is interesting is that they're attacking our friends. They go after our relationships with the Defense Department, with schools and school boards - and they sue those people, but they don't sue us. They think maybe that's a way of hurting us and hurting our friends for having relationships with us.

Virgil Thomson

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.

Tommy McWhorter

I thought in the first half, we came out a little slow and North Cobb came out with a lot of intensity. The second half, we came out attacking more on defense and we made some good shots. We also shot our free throws well.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Randy Moss

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Antoine Fuqua

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Bertrand Russell

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

George H. W. Bush

use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Sebastian Coe

We really want the Games, this is our third time trying.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.