Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Allen

This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

Charles Wald

The weather is improving, and we're flying around the clock more, and we have the ability to service all of Kosovo, ... So we're just taking the fight to the whole area.

Larry Noble

The whole culture is based on the ability to raise funds. Most of the ones who are running for the leadership are very well-connected in this fundraising community.

Trent Duffy

The White House and the administration are cooperating with both the House and Senate. But we have also maintained the president's ability to get advice and have conversations with his top advisers that remain confidential.

James Sung

The upgrade is based on the company's demonstrated ability, as reflected in improved operating performance and capitalization, to successfully operate in the challenging New York State regional market.

Bruce Schneier

The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.

Robert Bates

This contract is not perfect by any means, but it gives us the ability to get our guys back to work.

Larry Fitzgerald

That's what we practiced all week, working on red-zone plays. We know we have the ability to do it.

Neil deMause

That's why you didn't see, for example, the use of amphetamines discussed by sports journalists for decades - because it was something that wasn't in the public awareness. If somebody had started writing about the fact that athletes were popping amphetamines left and right, they would have been in serious trouble, and no one would have talked to them. That would have put their ability to do the rest of their job at risk.

Eric Vollmers

Eureka really stepped up its defense tonight. They did a great job taking us out of our offensive set and we weren't able to get many open looks and started falling behind.

Duane Joubert

We like to play full-court defense, but we can play half-court, too. I don't think Hughes Springs has faced a team that can play defense like we do.

George McPhee

We could use some more goals. We like the way the defense has played, and the goaltending has been good. We think we have some young players who can score for us. We'll see what the second half brings.

Kenny Moore

Everything has been real positive so far. The defense played well and the offense made some big plays.

Brooke Baker

Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense.

John Howell

Everything they put up, it was on the money. They were solid all the way around. From the defense to the blocking, their setting improved greatly, and everything they put up worked.

DeSagana Diop

Every time I got in the game, I played good help-defense and rebounded. They never put me in the game.

Rick Francis

Even though they only scored 43 points, our defense was not very good.

Angie Lucier

Even tired, our defense did the job on them. They (the Lady Cherokees) didn't rest on defense.

Tom Cole

Members know this is a very difficult moment -- if we don't hang together we fall apart.

John Straayer

I wonder if Holtzman isn't pursuing a path that is going to make it difficult for people to take him seriously.

Ron Jirsa

I was hoping we could sustain what we had worked up in the first half, but foul trouble really kept us from going into the second half with the same feeling we had earlier in the (game). Memphis has an explosive team and I think they were able to run us and we hit the wall about six, seven or eight minutes into the second half. And that made it difficult for us to overcome that run.

Bhagavad Gita

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

Paul Hamm

We figured we'd have to miss a lot of school for (training) camps, competitions like the world championships, which are usually two-week competitions, and it's very difficult to maintain a high level in school while you're gone.

Ralph Henning

We have a lot of families that would have a difficult time unless there was some kind of family break. Even then, it's not a great situation. I hope we don't have to go that route.

Hans Olsen

It doesn't set a real positive stage. It makes it difficult for stock prices to go anywhere.

Toni Harris

It does wear one down. It does get incredibly difficult to keep it all moving and we seem to be moving all the time.

Gary Hall

it has been a difficult spring and summer.

Muriel Spark

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Phoebe Cary

You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

Nathaniel Branden

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Mother Teresa

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Kerrilynn Gallagher

Playing four games is tough on your legs, but now we know the limits in which we can push our bodies.

Stephen Katz

In the next minutes, I heard four gunshots.

Horacio Ramirez

I get a little glimpse of it, and then it goes away. That's the thing that's frustrating to me. I'll go out there, have three or four good starts, and then have two horrible ones.

Dedrick L.

I never thought in my four years that Xavier would play like this. It's just unbelievable, embarrassing.

Marv Levy

In fact, the guy we sort of like right now, my strong guess would be he'll be there four spaces below.

Timothy Goebel

I guess I wasted four years of my life. I don't know what I'm going to do now.

Mike Trombetta

I guess our plans are, if he's doing well in four weeks, we'd have to be a part of it.

Jeremy Affeldt

I guess we have four more games to keep that from happening.

Mike Evans

I guess tonight showed everyone we have more than one player. We know we have guys that can come in and take up the scoring slack when Mike's not in there. Tonight we had three or four guys who did that. They really picked it up tonight.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Judy Cornett

I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.

Dwyane Wade

The triple-double is nice and all. But I wish I could have done more to help my team win.

David Reeves

These kids need a breakthrough. They are ready. We just need to help them get one. I think it will open the floodgates.

Kwame Kilpatrick

You've got to help me solve those problems, ... We need each other in this city, in this region and in this state more than we've ever needed each other before. But the region can only be strong if you have a strong Detroit.

Orrin Hatch

You've acted, I think, with the highest honor as White House counsel. I stand ready and willing to help you.

Ron Garrett

And she got some help with makeup to give her more of a Vegas look and feel.

Sean Howard

And I would tell our vanguard organization leaders back home: stop holding press conferences, get down here and roll up your sleeves and help the people.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Elizabeth McGovern

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

Alex Wheeler

We're not out of the woods yet. It will be an interesting next six months.

Jason Schrotberger

We think the fundamentals are just phenomenal. For the next 6 months, they've got the wind at their backs.

Kris Draper

Why are you sitting next to me? Get out of here.

Elizabeth Porter

This time next week, we'll be up in the air.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.