Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Ed Wade

I understand the rights of people to have the ability to criticize what we do, ... At the same time, we have a lot of fans out there who were very supportive of what we've done here over the last eight years, particularly what we've done over the last couple of years to try to get to the finish line. And I also think it needs to be said that for eight years, I've been a doer, and not a critic. Because sometimes standing up and doing things is a lot easier that people standing on the sidelines and criticizing what you do.

Warren Shiau

Things are getting worse. However, despite the greater instances of attacks the amount of investment in security has produced a degree of resistance to those attacks. Internal breaches of security was five per cent three years ago (today it is 30 per cent) . . . perhaps with the implementation of improved security people have a better ability to discover security breaches than in the past.

Jia Qinglin

They also show to the world that the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait have the wisdom and ability to resolve their differences and build a new framework for the peaceful and steady development of cross-Strait relations.

Dick Martin

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Scott Moore

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Chris Mullin

The way Mike performed, the way he conducted himself, and the way we run our organization, we both felt it was something that we wanted, ... We're still putting together a team and not just individuals. Mike's ability to play with the guys that we have on our roster, along with his age and his development ... are what it's about.

Ronald Reagan

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Tony Fratto

The World Bank's analysis seems to give greater credence to the ability of a Niger to pay back its unsustainable debt than it does for the G-8 countries to meet their commitments.

Chris Mihm

I've never seen anyone score 62 points. That third quarter was something else. He was scoring at will.

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Forrest Bell

I've never known anyone with as much capacity to remember, care about and minister to other people.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Joan Smith

I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Wolfensohn

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

Rick Rubin

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

Sophia Myles

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

Tony Campolo

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

Toby Jones

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

T Bone Burnett

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Tom Robbins

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Steve Albini

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

Shawn Johnson

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Seth Godin

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Emily Landau

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily.

Craig Rivet

He's done an unbelievable job negotiating this deal for us,

Khaled Mashaal

The Palestinian problem is a political problem. The Road Map demands that we end resistance and only afterward promises to deal with politics. If we try to solve problem that way, there will be no success.

Michael Chertoff

We make sure there are assurances in place in general. Sufficient to satisfy us that the deal is appropriate from a national security standpoint.

Zhu Rongji

We must exert a great deal of effort to resolve the problems of back pay for workers and overburdened farmers,

E. O. Wilson

We have to be able to recognize when we pull up outside that we might be having to deal with one of these buildings,

Denny Green

We made the decision, but we're not going to make an announcement until it's time to play the ballgame. We're not going to make a big deal about it.

Kellie Pickler

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.

Ellen DeGeneres

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

Leo Tolstoy

Energy is based on love.

Rahul Gandhi

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Scilla Elworthy

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Theophilus London

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

Theophilus London

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.

Terry Tempest Williams

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Joseph Campbell

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

Gayle Forman

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Glenn Britt

A la carte isn't a great way to sell networks. It's also the wrong way to sell programming. Most TV shows don't sell on their own.

Bob Grimes

All around, this was just a great performance as a whole.

Jeff Bower

Allan did a great job getting everything going with this whole process,

Ray Richardson

Albany has great tradition of winning and I was a part of that, ... It's great to have Albany back in the league and will be a great place for young men to try and reach their dreams, which is playing in the NBA.

Annika Sorenstam

A little disappointed about the outcome - it was so close. The US team played some great golf.

Rachel Nichols

'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

Randy Sanders

(Ainge) is working hard and has a great attitude,

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

John Peterson

We had a really hard time shooting today. We just couldn't get them to fall.

Stew Morrill

We had a hard time with La. Tech and trying to rebound the ball. We were able to stay with them on the boards.

Dusty Baker

We had a hard time holding up our end of the bargain.

Curt Fredrickson

We had a hard time getting the big hit when we needed it. Overall, I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense.

Mike Marshall

We had a hard time getting any rhythm. We made a lot of mistakes and we could not get anything going.

Mary LeBlanc

We had a hard life, but we stuck together. We worked together.

Will Blalock

We wanted to take his 3-ball out of the equation. In the second half, he woke up and really played hard for them. That's why they got the win.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Phil Garner

We send them (Marlins) out of town with no change. After those first two games, it looked bleak.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Adolf Hitler

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Adolf Hitler

Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

Adolf Hitler

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Adolf Hitler

I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.

Adolf Hitler

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

Adolf Hitler

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

Adolf Hitler

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.