Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Alexis Strauss

Unauthorized filling of wetlands and damming of open waters can have serious environmental consequences. The Santa Clara River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Southern California. The EPA's action today underscores our commitment to protecting this very important water resource and to work closely with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other resource agencies to achieve this goal.

Roger Haynes

We've got a lot of kids who want to come here and continue their track careers, and they all work very hard to be the best. In addition to that, we've been successful in the past so we get a lot of kids from the local area who want to try to achieve success in the college ranks, and they choose to come here.

John Whisenant

We have a chance to achieve something that hasn't been done in franchise history. This will be a great challenge to see what we can do against the Connecticut Sun.

Nido Qubein

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Satoru Iwata

To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.

Bao Dai

To achieve these ends, we have declared ourself ready for any sacrifice and we desire that our sacrifice be useful to the people.

Mark Fields

To achieve the right capacity at this level, we are closing 14 facilities by 2012, including seven vehicle-assembly plants.

Estelle Morris

To achieve the maximum impact we need a wide range of organisations to participate and make a contribution. Together we really can make a difference to the lives of our young people.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Amy Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Annette Bening

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Anne Sexton

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

D. H. Lawrence

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Dan Brown

God's will is your deepest desires.

David Platt

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

Chen Yunlin

We will be ready for any complicated situation.

Tuomo Ruutu

I think I'm ready to go. Now it's up to the coach.

Erin Crocker

I think I'm about as ready as I'm going to be,

Daniel Cabrera

I think I'll be ready for that, ... I don't feel any more pain.

Edgar Renteria

I think he's going to be ready to play in this league.

Peter Drinnen

I think he is ready for the challenge.

Steve Spurrier

I think he senses he's not ready to play, so that's probably what we'll do.

Ike Taylor

Johnson's big time, we all know that, ... We better be ready for him.

Jason LaBarbera

You just never know, you have to be ready at all times.

Susan Butcher

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

St. Jerome

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

Sri Chinmoy

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

Sri Chinmoy

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

Sri Chinmoy

No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

Ringo Starr

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

Rihanna

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

Tim Pawlenty

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Steven Wright

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.