Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Jamie Retterath

What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the precision of our system ? we can make very precise maps and image location from that ? we also have a very long list of patents that we've acquired over the years that deal with efficient processing of that imagery and turning it into meaningful content.

Jonathan Williams

There is a difference between the illicit trade, a position the museum has taken a stance on, and of things that were acquired or removed under different times and circumstances.

Charley Casserly

We're pleased to have acquired him. The reason we targeted him on the first day of free agency was because we thought he was a good young talent.

Robert Murphy

We are extremely pleased to have acquired this government contract as it demonstrates that MSSI continues to successfully execute its business plan. This latest contract will not only generate significant revenues for the Company, but it will give MSSI even more credibility when pursuing future government contracts.

Bob Gibson

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to me -- just like the color of my skin.

Bob Apodaca

He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.

Bruce Bochy

He's been consistent and it looks like he's gotten in the groove. He's helped solidify this rotation, and I can't say enough about the job he's done since we acquired him.

Rick Sund

He's been a tremendous asset for the Sonics, both on and off the court, since we acquired him in 2003.

David Benoit

Having to bottle up my revenge feelings as a brother is not going to be an easy thing to do. I'm also worried about my mother.

Lisa Jennings

God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.

Garrett Gomez

He's got phenomenal speed. If he can keep that bottled up and enjoy himself, he's ten times better.

Roger Scruton

It is a great pity we had only one bottle not enough to revive that proof of the afterlife, though enough to revive some gentle regrets

Karen Friel

I think Caitlin was pretty happy today, just because she could get out and run a little. North Valleys bottled her up pretty good.

David Zutler

Well, you know, I did not realize what we were starting but, absolutely, I feel really good about the type of response we've gotten from all over the world. And now we are changing the world one bottle at a time and I feel personally that I have had something to do with help making a difference.

Jorja Fox

I'd do a nude scene for world peace or if I were facing some serious jail time, but I'm also a sucker for a good bottle of wine and candlelight.

Richard Bush

I came up here to help out where I can. And not just medical stuff, but I've been moving bottles of water and everything else.

John Updike

Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other

Bobby Kielty

I would say the Steroid Era is over. If it isn't, these people are going to get caught. You are going to be caught and you are going to pay. If you are dumb enough to take steroids, you are going to pay the price. The penalties outweigh the benefits.

Romeo Crennel

Just sitting out there, I saw a couple of throws that caught your eye.

Dave Sarachan

Jordan caught our eye at the combine. He could be a sleeper in this draft. We were looking for a defender to get ourselves stronger in the back.

Pat Vredevoogd

It caught me off guard when I saw those numbers. But then I realized that in my own practice, I've been working with a lot of single women lately; young women just out of college, widows wanting to downsize, divorced women who are starting over. So, I see no reason why this trend shouldn't continue.

Tony Baker

He caught the country and the city by storm.

Matic Kralj

He caught me with an elbow in the face and I hit the edge of the boards. He's just a guy that plays like that. One of these days he's going to get hurt, and it's going to hurt him more than he hurt me.

Paul Nocito

He caught fire in the second quarter, and we managed to pull within 10 points.

Jerametrius Butler

He caught a deep route here (in practice), so I guess he's still got it. You can't underestimate Isaac.

Shawn Horcoff

He is so dangerous. A lot of people get caught watching him.

Don Breaux

He is so physical without the ball. He does things nobody else in the league does.

Travis Hafner

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

Rex Ryan

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

Willie Mays

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Vladimir Lenin

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

Zebulon Pike

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Tony DiCecco

Our league is legit. You have to respect everybody.

Charlie Adam

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

Elliot Richardson

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Lee Iacocca

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Bruce Bochy

Jake's a gamer. He's a big-game pitcher with an outstanding future.

Jamey Shouppe

He's a true pitcher in every sense of the word. He makes it look easy. He doesn't have the wow factor. He just competes. He locates, but he doesn't have that one pitch.

Randy Johnson

He saw a lot of things that sometimes you don't see when you're a pitcher out there, and that's mechanics.

Rich Aurilia

I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.

Brian Sabean

He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough.

Nick Ursitti

I'm a smarter pitcher now. With more pitches to rely on, I've been a lot more effective.

John Heywood

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

Jason Bay

A lot of it probably has to do with the pitchers that they've had.

Mark Mulder

There's a lot of pitchers who've got it. That's an out pitch for them. It's a big pitch.