Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

John Ridley

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .

Peter Drucker

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Source Unknown

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Steven Kaplan

This is a whole new era. This is a whole new day. We cannot be stopped. No one can hold us back,

John Parks

The way the damage was done to the shack it was not due to the wood stove or a candle. It was negligence but we cannot prove it.

Joyce Gibson

You write a letter of dispute to the credit reporting agency, they have 30 days to investigate the dispute and get back to you. If they cannot prove it's your debt, they have to take it off.

Arundhati Roy

You would remember in October 2000 the court had given its judgement, it had told the government give me a rehabilitation master plan in three months...it is 2006 now, in six years it has still not even given a master plan and you are talking about rehabilitation. So, now in three months, how will rehabilitation happen? It cannot happen.

Richard Greville

You should never be clever but when you cannot help it

Jami Attenberg

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.

Earl Brown

You never control your classroom. Your students do. They always have; they always will. You cannot be coercive enough for them.

Rachel Tolkien

Everything to me that is the most important, and the most moving in the book, they've gotten on the stage.

Tony Gray

Ever year his stick has gotten better and better.

Marvin Parvez

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

Scott Young

Last year, we couldn't have gotten away with playing him inside. He's strong enough now that he does OK even when they get two hats on him.

Brandon Roy

Last year, with a No. 1 seed, we might have gotten a little relaxed. Now everybody's hungry. I think we have more fight.

Jon Bolin

Last year we were the hunters and other teams were our prey. This year we haven't gotten our hunter instinct back, but I think it's coming.

Keith Snoddy

Sebastian has gotten more aggressive, and he's done pretty much everything we have asked.

Tom Schrader

Sentiment had gotten so bad. People are wanting to start get back in.

Bruce Buchanan

She wanted no part of any of this from the get-go when they got married. She's gotten comfortable to the point that she seems engaged.

Stephen King

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Dawn Brown

I can't imagine life without him. He completes our family.

Mike McLaughlin

People have put just about anything you can imagine on top of landfills.

Diane White

Well, it just means more that we can pick it out and imagine what we would need if we were in this situation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Gary Hamel

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Jochen Zeitz

I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.

Tanith Belbin

I don't think we could imagine sitting another one out.

Max Bruno

I could just imagine what was going through his head.

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.

Marissa Mayer

To me, the future is personalization .

Bill Ritter

Personal responsibility has to be a part of this.

Patrick McMahon

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Phill Kline

for the sole purpose of financial, professional or personal gain.

Jessica Valenti

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.