Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Jr

He just needs to realize that he's right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn't want to tick off. I think he'll figure it out.

Kate Bosworth

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.

Steve Rucchin

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

Douglas Hamilton

I am leaving Javelin in a good place -- well capitalized with a strong management team and on the brink of commercialization of its first product. Over the past five years, I have taken great pride and enjoyed helping to build Javelin and intend to return to the venture capital community to help entrepreneurs create earlier-stage companies.

Bill Richardson

Iraq is pushing this issue to the brink and there's going to be some grave consequences.

Harold Goldstein

California is on the brink of maybe making history. The state Legislature has an opportunity to make a significant impact.

Ernie Accorsi

I never like to be too optimistic about contracts because you're really not close until you sign them. Sometimes you can get to the brink and never get it done. But we're pretty positive about our thoughts about him.

Tim Finchem

I'm not quite sure what I'm going to say. We've got so many things going on. Given where we are, on the brink of going to TV (negotiations), I don't want to mislead anyone. But I want to give folks a broad sense of what we're looking at.

Parry Aftab

Kids are doing things online that they don't do in real life. We need to teach them that online is real. They have to be accountable for what they do... and they have to be able to live with the consequences of their online actions.

Nick Saban

Just think of the consequences of those penalties. There were several third-down stops that gave them first downs with penalties. It's the consequences of it that everybody needs to understand.

Alvin Sykes

Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences.

David Attenborough

Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures hastily crafted in response to short-term rises in prices will have unintended consequences and disincentives to investment,

David Parkin

He's a terrific young bloke, but he might suffer the consequences of his father's white-line fever,

Bruce Buchanan

What makes this different from past mistakes is that there are some very long-term consequences here: higher energy costs, and the dislocation of thousands of people for months to come, and the rebuilding of a city. None of that will come cheap, and can't be done without a robust federal presence.

John O. Brennan

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

Craig Littlepage

I think we are comfortable that the modifications have done a lot of what we had hoped. I would think that one of the unintended consequences ... would encourage teams from other parts of the country to play away from home.

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Sirus Nasseri

I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the U.S., and particularly by Europe,

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

William Hazlitt

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Mark Haddon

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Sydney Smith

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave

Crystal Merillat

The headstone had just been placed the day before and when I saw the grave and part of it was empty, it was like they killed my son again.

Jim Colborn

These Pirates ... They're a great team waiting to happen. I honestly feel as though I have this grave responsibility to shape this young staff into what it could become -- and what it could become is frighteningly good.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Robin Hayes

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Walid Muallem

Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jeffrey Schloss

I thought the issue was so polarized, I just didn't want to get caught,

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

Tony Johnson

I think we will make it. We have had some issue with respect to the weather, but we are moving along.

Jennifer Johnson

I think what we're leaning to now is that the Web issue will be a support for the print product.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Dan Morrison

He has a built-in self-starter. He's never satisfied where he's at. He's always pushing himself.

Will Ferrell

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

Werner Erhard

Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

Dick Mountjoy

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Willie Randolph

I like him a lot. He's pushing everybody. I like what I see.