Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

John Marhefka

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

Lonnie Roberts

The overall effort was great all season long, and now we've got a little taste of the playoffs, too.

Carl Rogers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Antoine Lavoisier

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Bill Vaughan

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Bill Vaughan

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Gloria Trevi

The album, thank God, is a great effort that makes me proud, that has me thrilled.

Ken Slater

That was a tough one to lose. I really liked our effort for three quarters, and I saw a lot of good things, but we just got physically outmatched in the fourth quarter and we couldn't sustain things.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Andy Hill

We have underachieved. We have failed at every opportunity to make the big play; that's what's gotten us. We've been spending a lot of time on fundamentals, and we're going to have to keep on doing that because we have young kids.

Mark Kotsay

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that executes all the time and that's our game. We failed today at moving the guys over.

Kevin Keane

You can always work off last year. You can be happy, but anything can happen in the playoffs, so you'd kind of like to take it to the next level, step it up in the playoffs. That's what we failed to do (last year).

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Amisha Patel

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

Jonathon Modica

That would mean a lot. These past three or four weeks we've been going back and forth trying to get ourselves at. 500 and then we'd lose, then get back to. 500 and then lose again. I think it would do a lot for us.

John Husk

We were going back and forth with what we were going to do with that spot. We weren't sure what we were going to do with that spot, but Kristy won it.

Pat Robinson

We just want to know why and we gonna do whatever it takes if it takes us walking back and forth through neighborhoods, getting the parents out to speak about it.

Rand Paul

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

Matthew Arnold

Friends who set forth at our side, / Falter, are lost in the storm. / We, we only, are left!

Ron Vlasin

I don't think we put forth a very good effort. We weren't going to win, but I think we can still play harder.

William Cullen Bryant

Go forth under the open sky, and listTo Nature's teachings.

Charlton Heston

Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.