Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bennett

As expected, consumer tax revenue is only slightly above last year's level, ... This is because we continue to see an increasing portion of our tax growth coming in our third quarter. More customers are using our Web-based tax solutions, which historically have revenue peaks later in the season.

Justin Robinson

As a team we expect to be above everything. Our goal is not just the Vegas Bowl but even higher. With the players and the leaders that we have on this team, we have a good chance of doing it.

Father Thomas

As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on Oct. 3, 1917, ... and that miracle occurred at the time, date and place that the children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.

Veronica Wiggins

As a freshman, she knew she had to step up to the challenge. Tiffany has contributed above and beyond this year. We just want her to stay in her zone.

Bob Gallagher

As a community, we honor the courage and dignity of those who rise above their injury and refuse to live their life as a victim. Rather, they live as a survivor. Living life this way demonstrates courage and determination and hope each and every day.

George H. W. Bush

As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, as well, ... That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So, let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.

Kevin Thomas

As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means (is) you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.

Barack Obama

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

Chuck Schumer

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Shoshana Johnson

I've been invited before, but quite frankly, I didn't think I had the courage to come.

Ivo Sanader

This government has inherited a number of traumatic issues that those who were in office before us did not have the courage to resolve,

Leonard Leo

That took the kind of courage and determination you want on the Supreme Court,

Holly Brown

That took courage and strength, just for him to sit there. He told me everything I wanted to know.

Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Barbara Lee

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Arthur Koestler

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Carl von Clausewitz

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Charles R. Swindoll

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Charles R. Swindoll

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Greg Howard

We determined he made a mistake, after a review. I felt like it was a mistake we needed to punish him over.

James Appathurai

There is a shared determination to push forward with the expansion of the mission.

Anton Chekhov

I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.

Cobi Jones

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

Booker T. Washington

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Bruce Catton

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Rumi

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Ravi Zacharias

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Theodore Roosevelt

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Terry Pratchett

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Sherwin B. Nuland

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Gustavo Chacin

It would be an honour for me to win rookie of the year.

Ryan Church

It would be an honor to stand out there next to him. I'm pulling for him. I've got his back. Hopefully, this is history.

Aaron Harang

It would be an honor. This is the oldest franchise.

Scott Marshall

It was truly an honor for the town to host such an event.

Marco Selle

It was an honor to see the podium in all blue.

John Shuster

It was an honor to represent the U.S., Minnesota and curling.

Dat Nguyen

It was an honor to play for an organization with such a rich tradition. For me to be part of it was just amazing.

Scott Gomez

It was an honor to be there and I'm not going to get into that. I was just proud to be picked.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Jay Wright

Allan has a serious injury and he's doing OK and being evaluated right now.

Rob Blake

You never want to see an injury like that happen.

Francis Bacon

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Tommy Bowden

But it can be a negative if you run into injury problems.

Chad Pennington

I didn't even know about the injury until you told me about it after the game,

Munir Akram

I think there is consternation and perhaps a sense of injury at the tone and substance of the letter.

Billy Corgan

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

Rich Brooks

We don't feel that it's a serious injury at this point, ... but it was scary for a little while.

J. K. Rowling

There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Gillian Flynn

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.