Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

Brian Tracy

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Kevin Chalmers

The reality is it's not his decision to make; it's the constituents of the riding who made that decision.

Bob Stoops

When a guy's really good, he's really good. We realize that, and we realize that everything runs through him. When you look at not only the passing but also the run game, it all goes through him. He's a big factor, and we've got to really defend him.

Matt Brady

Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.

Tim Casey

Give (Liberty) credit. I thought they defended well. ... We were fortunate to win.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

O. Singh

I have always defended a title on the PGA Tour and I am greatly disappointed I won't be able to do so in Boston.

Mike Hohensee

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Brian Johnson

Can they defend market share? Can they get early retirements to match the pace of plant closings?

Dale Evans

Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

Chuck Norris

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

Robert Knepper

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

T. Harv Eker

Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

Mitch Albom

People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

Sheila Lee

Houston was spared the worst and we are grateful for that, but we will have long-term repercussions,

W. S. Gilbert

I don't know how something like this happens. Greg is a remarkable man with a lot of class. I'm just grateful that he didn't sell his house in New York.

J. J. Abrams

I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

J. J. Abrams

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

O. Singh

I said yes as I am not taking it as a personal matter.

Hal Gill

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads, don't wear them. It solves a lot of problems but I think it's a personal decision.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Sparky Anderson

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Val Kilmer

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Sophie Swetchine

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

Rumi

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Rigoberta Menchu

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Evel Knievel

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Javier Perez de Cuellar

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Greta Garbo

I have made enough faces.

Gresham Barrett

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Jilly Cooper

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Jerry Doyle

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Jerry Della Femina

Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Brandy Norwood

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Author unknown

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Donald Trump

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Aldous Huxley

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Aldous Huxley

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

Aldous Huxley

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Albert Einstein

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Anacreon

Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

Anne Frank

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph)

Anne Frank

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Richard Bach

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Robert Fulghum

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Rita Mae Brown

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Robert McNamara

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.