Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Nelson

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend,

Lou Brock

I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that.

Joan Baez

If we dont sit down and shut up once in a while well lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Jim Roffler

If we could've stopped a little earlier on the break, found our shooters and hit the shots, we could've been right in the game.

Mike Harper

She had a good year last year. If we could have supported her at all with some runs, especially earlier in the year, she would have had a much better record.

Zach Thomas

I feel good that we are on this run. We should have got on this run earlier and that's why we are not going to the playoffs, but it is good to win.

Willie Thomas

I didn't have a good feeling earlier in the day. And at game time, I didn't think they were ready. But I'll take a win any way I can get it.

Todd Sauerbrun

Honestly, I thought I was the last line of defense. Hey, it's either me or he's gone. I make it a point to get down there earlier because if I'm not down there earlier, he's got all the room in the world and I don't have a chance. The minute he finds that hole, I have to be right there because if I'm not I'm not going to have a chance. You ever see a kicker, a guy running full speed, running a 4.3 40, you ever see a kicker making an open-field tackle? It's not going to happen.

Paul Hewitt

He's starting to understand some of the little things you have to do. He's a talented, gifted scorer who can rebound. Defensively, off the ball, he's much, much better than he was last year or even earlier this year.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Norman Foster

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Max de Pree

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Tom Daschle

Obviously, given the level of his dissatisfaction, you would think they would have picked up on it and maybe done something constructive with it,

Jet Li

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

Christian Olsen

Nobody's been told anything about Ahmad. We haven't given it two thoughts. It's just not a subject that comes up.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Ariah Fasana

Dayton put on a very good tournament and they wrestled very well to win.

Tom Harkin

Compassionate conservatism is like trying to heat up an old house with warm thoughts. It might make you feel good but it doesn't stop you from freezing,

John Shelby

(Cobb) was throwing three pitches for strikes, so I went up there sitting on the change-up. I just hoped he would throw it and he did and I made good contact.

Rand Pecknold

Colgate has some good hockey players and did a great job tonight.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Duane Schwab

We've held teams to 54.8 points per game, and we're pretty proud of that. This team has really come together.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Melanie Gruer

I would just say it should not come as a surprise to people that she held views on public policy prior to being appointed,

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Islam Karimov

The trial will ... be held in mid-September, on September 20,

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Lucious Jordan

That's something we talked about all week. It's a big win for us and a big accomplishment, but now we need to move on to our next big goal. We needed this win to get our momentum going into the tournament.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Pam Tuttle

I didn't plan to be a quilter. I just took a class, and then I was off and running.

Ned Yost

That was the plan all along. We were going to get him out of it, get him comfortable and put him back in the five.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Jerry Smith

Don't learn safety by accident.

Frederick Douglass

The ballot is the only safety.

Harold MacMillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Pema Chodron

Patience is not learned in safety.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

William Shakespeare

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Jose Insulza

This is not a summit about the FTAA,