Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Ricky Ray

If we want to be a team that is going to contend for the Grey Cup, we've got to get better offensively,

Ralph Connor

I'm seeing improvement in our times. We're working at getting better. We would like to defend our sectional championship and see if we can contend for a regional spot. Everybody is working very hard enough that we'll see improvement during the year.

Ben Wolcott

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. One good thing is we don't have the heat and wind to contend with.

Chad Bradford

New York is a great situation for me. I worked with Rick Peterson in Oakland and I know what he can do. With all the off-season additions, I'm sure the Mets will be contending for a playoff spot and I want to do all I can to help.

Henry David Thoreau

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Bill Shaw

They kind of surprised us by playing nearly the whole game in zone defense, when they are a man-to-man team. I think they thought they couldn't contend with us inside, man on man.

Marcy Winograd

Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for nuclear weapons, opposing the International Criminal Court.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

Tom Gray

(His mental health history) suggests that his criminal culpability is materially diminished.

Kemal Saiki

Whatever semblance of political and or ethnic motivations disappeared, the main one is the illegal exploitation of resources and criminal enterprise.

Juan Morales

He was going to college. He was studying criminal law. He wanted to be a police officer.

Kevin O'Donnell

He has not touched in a criminal manner in his entire life.

Warren Buffett

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Tim Heidecker

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

Robert Parkes

This is not the first such patent to be granted, but it shows that patent examiners are being duped by false science.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Chris Simms

We just have to come prepared to play next week. And I mean that. We can't take New Orleans (3-12) lightly because they've given us problems before.

Robert Gillespie

We take away all of the headaches .We provide a turn-key service, which includes scheduling of airplanes, maintenance of the airplanes, recruiting, training and retraining the pilots.

Dusty Baker

He looks pretty good. He says he doesn't feel anything but we still have to be cautious. If he doesn't get any headaches or dizziness, he might be ready on Wednesday. Hopefully the new helmet worked and he doesn't have any repercussions and he's OK.

Brian Schneider

That'll just give us headaches if we worry about that.

Peter Townsend

It's a headache and there's no aspirin in the cupboard, ... This one is not going to go away.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Paige Hawkins

We're going to play if at all possible, because we know what the headache is on the other end.

Jimmy Reed

A shot of Tabasco sauce. It burns, but you don't have to worry about the headache anymore.

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Richard Rose

I would prefer that it had never existed. The headache has been enormous.

Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

Lucy Dalglish

I know a journalist when I see one.

Adnan Dulaimi

The journalist was trying to meet me when she was kidnapped.

Bernard Goldberg

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

Jeff Jarvis

This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur.

Brigitte Boisselier

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

Mario Balotelli

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

Rik Mayall

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

Jane Pauley

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Donald Rumsfeld

He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage,

Wayne LaPierre

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Sam Brownback

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

John Cislo

We matched West's intensity, but they made the shots. They're good. Taylor didn't miss too many 3s in the first half. We were too low ... we didn't get up in his face.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Cindy Hockenberry

If you know your itemized deductions will be more than the standard deduction, you can still just use the standard deduction to get an idea in your mind. This will give you the lowest estimate.

William Karesh

In this situation it had a very low impact,

Dan Houston

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Tyra Banks

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

Sam Abell

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Julien Letellier

Our main marks are the magazines because that is what people are used to paying - paying over a period of time. It's the same model (as print) but a slight difference.

Shilpa Shetty

I need someone to woo me. Magazines are always saying I am beautiful and millions of men want to woo me, but none has come forward because they are all so scared.

Mandy Moore

I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

Lester Bowie

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Emo Philips

Once I posed nude for a magazine. I've never been back to THAT newstand.

Masa Takayama

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Carolayne Holley

It's just phenomenal for a regional magazine like this.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

John Straayer

It's unusual, but he's getting publicity for his campaign.

Joseph Pulitzer

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Paul Ince

I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Tama Janowitz

With publicity comes humiliation.

Tallulah Bankhead

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

Lauren Conrad

I don't stage my own publicity.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Joe DiMaggio

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

P. T. Barnum

A salary was not sufficient for me.

John D. Rockefeller

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Donna Morelle

This is about positional adjustments so the salary scale is competitive.

Dieter Zetsche

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Mark Skousen

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

Howard Stern

I don't talk about my salary.

Jerry Buss

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Zach Braff

I'd never hit a woman unless I was already out of Viagra.

Harvey Korman

Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

Lil Wayne

Abracadabra, I'm up like Viagra.

David Miles

There's not that much viable agriculture in this county.

Dolly Parton

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

Jack Nicholson

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

Andrew Zimbalist

I don't think contraction is a viable option.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Richelle Mead

It was worth it. You looked... happy.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Vivian Covard

It was over 30 years worth of problems.

John Green

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.