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.

Matthew Ashford

Now we go out to eat earlier - at 5 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. It's better that way, especially when you have little kids who want to run around.

Scott Skiles

Fouling him and putting him on the line makes him theoretically shoot less field goals and puts him on the line, but it also puts their team in the penalty earlier every quarter. And then other guys are going to the line. ... So if we're just fouling Shaq sort of indiscriminately, it can be a long night.

Guus Hiddink

I expected this announcement earlier from a different side.

Wayne Allard

I'd written a letter earlier to the president, suggesting that I saw a void on Western issues on the Supreme Court,

Greg Owens

If what I did happened earlier in the tournament, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. But everybody saw it.

Kimberly Allen

I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.

Josh Pais

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

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.

Chris Kapilovic

There's still a long way to go. There's a lot of work to be done. We're not at the level we were last year. We can get there. But it's going to take time and hard work. So far, these guys have responded well and put forth the effort to get that done. But there's still a lot more work left.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Robert Greene

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

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.

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 Wilson

Obviously most people don't want to be here at any given time, ... But it's a little worse, a little more noticeable at Christmas.

James Blake

Obviously he can do about anything with a tennis racket in his hand. But on a given day, hopefully so can I.

Ken Fields

Obviously, given the number of tires, there are going to have to be other suppliers.

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.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

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.

Gary Mitchell

I just held him like I would my own son.

Islam Karimov

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

Bill Riley

Our pitching has to come through. It hasn't held up.

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.

Sid Cash

We needed that momentum to make them come after us.

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.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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?

The Jerusalem

we don't want wars here; we want to live in peace.

Adolf Hitler

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.

Pat Gerard

One of the first things I want to do is take that plan off the shelf. Let's take a look at it. If this is where we want to go, let's get moving. If not, then let's come up with another plan.

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.

Jim Barrett

Most of us didn't plan ahead. I didn't think I'd live long enough to ever worry about it.

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.

Jackie Stewart

It takes leadership to improve safety.

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.

John Burdett

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

Joel Salatin

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

James Surowiecki

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

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,