Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Tom Feeney

Alienating your base of fiscal conservatives is the worst thing you can do in the second year of a two-term administration,

Brian Sabean

(Alfonzo) may have to take a step back and wait for playing time, ... He is capable of playing second base also. If he's in that role, perhaps our team is deeper, if he can spell people.

Bryan Whitman

The mission and the focus of what our forces are doing has not changed this week from last week or last month. Any spike in violence is unfortunate and is always concerning, but we tend to look at these things broadly and over time, and base our decisions on trends and on what the commanders on the ground feel is an appropriate balance.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Andy Roddick

We had similar games, but he was pretty much just better at everything then. A lot has changed since then, that was a long time ago.

Gene McAteer

We went to a 1-3-1 and changed the tempo of the game. We don't use it often for long stretches, but we tried to shift the momentum.

Sophie Kinsella

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Michael Parenti

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Toba Beta

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.

Amy Cooper

One of the major things for us was we were playing a 5-1 offense. We normally play a 4-2 offense. That changed the complexion of the game.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Mike O'Connell

We felt we needed to shake up the team and, sometimes, you have to make some difficult decisions to better the team.

Zam Fredrick

Situations like this, you have to make your own decisions to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. This is my career, and I've got to live with it.

Peter Costello

I did not find this an easy decision, ... In fact it is one of the hardest decisions one could ever face in public life because it was so evenly poised.

Tom Greene

Governance has been halted. There are a lot of things that need to be done, but she's not up to it. Those kind of tough decisions are on hold and probably on hold forever.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Don Yaeger

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Dale Carnegie

Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.

Craig Sheffer

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

Craig McCaw

Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Anthony Sims

It's a lot better than a loss. Van Buren is a great team, even better than last year. But we played solid all-around. I think the forces were with us tonight.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

David O. McKay

Every member ... a missionary!

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Angelina Jolie

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

Thomas Kyd

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Tacitus

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Hannah Arendt

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ...

Frank Herbert

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.