Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Rekalin Sims

Randolph is quiet. He doesn't really show anything until he's out there on the court. I can almost guarantee Randolph is going to punish these guys.

Wayne Brown

Really and truly, almost all mistakes go back to basics. People need to have good, building-block learning behind them so they can become their own best critics and maintain good discipline about the fundamentals of flying.

David Farber

Realize that almost anybody can write a book, ... I even wrote a book.

Kenneth Fisher

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Paul Polzin

Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.

Stephen Malkmus

Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.

Christine Link

Programs such as this almost always prove to be ineffective in gathering information on possible terrorists. Even though they are created with the best of intentions, they only serve to reinforce stereotypes and cause innocent people to be subjected to government scrutiny.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Nathan Myhrvold

The task of growing is finding these people. A lot of companies are (turning away) from the notion that basic research can be a good investment. Some of the best and brightest are being turned out by their companies,

Joseph Bruchac

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Ernie Els

I've always done it, and I will keep doing it. A couple of putts here and there could have been better two years ago, and that's basically that. If I could just make a couple more putts, there wouldn't be this argument.

George Stevens

I've always been of the opinion that a director should never touch a film without having a basic knowledge of its contents.

Debbie Ryan

I wanted her to basically take a look at things from the floor to see defensively how she could improve upon her game and help our team. I thought she did a tremendous job tonight coming off the bench. I doubt it will be permanent. She did exactly what I needed her to do tonight.

Gord Mink

I've curled all my life and loved the game and Russ Howard is an icon in the game of curling. As players, we all grew up following curlers in their careers and Russ was someone I watched closely.

Brett Favre

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

Brett Favre

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Brandon Lee

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Brandon Jacobs

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

Arthur Ashe

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Benjamin Bratt

I have no particular career agenda.

Brad Lidge

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

Ben E. King

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Hubert Humphrey

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Keith B. Alexander

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Kevin Petrovek

Sometimes you see the talent that a kid doesn't see in himself. Ninety percent is just working out. If kids don't run enough miles, they don't get better. It takes time and discipline and putting in the mileage. After that, the races become the easy part.

Danny Sabbah

You need a unified view of what's going on. If you can't impose structure and discipline on (developer) practitioners, you're subject to chaos.

Bertrand Russell

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Celine Dion

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Billy Blanks

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Swami Ramdas

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ray Giacoletti

As the head coach, I retain the right to discipline my players for a variety of reasons.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

As of Wednesday, we haven't seen further outbreaks or human infections.

John Williams

As Mark settles into the role he will further concentrate on the relationship between the senior playing squad and the Academy.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Ben Bernanke

Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively,

Gordon Smith

Provided there are no further power outages and we are able to start up by Thursday this week, production should be back to normal by this time next week.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Kim Cattrall

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Ted Hughes

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

David Dunn

I think that would be an ideal situation for Kerry.

John Bennett

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

Irving Kaufman

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Stephane Dion

It's not an ideal situation, but the show must go on.

Chris Chambliss

It's out of our hands. But it's not the ideal situation.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

Chuck Long

We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more.

Rafer Alston

We got stops when we needed them. It wasn't always pretty, but we'll take it for sure.

Keyon Dooling

We got stops in overtime when we needed them. Iverson is so tough to stop and you're never really going to stop him. We tried to make him take tough shots and make them take tough shots. It's a big win for us. To come on the road and keep this winning streak is great. It's very satisfying to get this win after working like we did tonight.

John Stanczykiewicz

Every time they needed a rebound, she seemed to get it.

Ed DeChellis

We tried to get some steals from the pressure because we needed to get more possessions.

Alan Cleavor

We tried to do it ourselves, and after a while I realized we needed help.

Tim Ehresman

We just needed to settle down in the second half. We put some stops together and then took some things away from them.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Robert Reich

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Jim Yong Kim

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.