Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Zimbalist

I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.

Ernie Accorsi

I never like to be too optimistic about contracts because you're really not close until you sign them. Sometimes you can get to the brink and never get it done. But we're pretty positive about our thoughts about him.

Ted Forsgren

The herd is still expanding. In 2001, the Save the Manatee Club was saying they were on the brink of extinction and it was right about the same time a count of 3,300 came out.

Dilip Shanghvi

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

Carl Pope

Taking away these protections will put the last remnants of wild places grizzlies need to fully recover and raise their young at risk from irresponsible oil drilling, unsustainable logging and sprawling development - all of which helped drive the grizzly to the brink of extinction in the first place.

Ed Hutson

It was obviously teetering on the brink of collapse during the time that I was there.

Anthony Adams

They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.

Bible Bible

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

Jim Nantz

As wacky and as wild as it has been to this point, we may be on the brink of having the first set of No. 1 seeds all make it.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was pitching well until he got hit by that line drive and he battled his way through five innings.

Steve Forbes

kill it, drive a stake through it's heart and hope it never rises again.

Giri Cherukuri

I wouldn't read too much into today's downdraft, but how holiday sales come out is going to be key, and that would drive the market.

John Byford

Kelly is a very versatile player who can play midfield or forward. She has tremendous drive and determination.

Pat O'Connor

Judge O'Flaherty's rulings are putting drunk drivers back out on the street. It's a threat to public safety. It's offensive to law enforcement and prosecutors and it's offensive to the public.

Tom Crumpacker

It all starts with (varsity coach) Joey Montoya. It's his passion, style and drive to make this program successful. All Bryson and I have to do is follow the pattern Joey has laid out for us.

H. Hart

He was a big, gentle man, quiet and kind, and the hardest worker I ever knew. He would work on the roads, then he would go out and pull his pots, and then he would drive the taxi at night.

Richard O'Brien

The only thing that really drives me is to try and sort myself out and find some kind of psychological and spiritual growth within me.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Jared Diamond

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Asa Gray

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Brian Perkins

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Ian Campbell

Every precaution should be taken to help prevent the extinction of this rare bird. I understand this will be a disappointing outcome for the proponents of the wind farm.

Stephen Jay Gould

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

Greg Gianforte

The Oracles and SAPs of the world are truly dinosaurs. Their extinction is imminent.

Thomas French

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Joel Sternfeld

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Michael Huff

He'll never know, I guess, fully what we go through. But I think he has a lot better understanding.

Donna Brazile

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

Andrew Weil

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Mary Richards

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized

Zhao Hongbo

The injury hasn't fully recovered. Being here to skate makes me very happy.

Bill Chapman

The hope is we won't have to do any layoffs, and we'll be fully operational through July 1.

Kim Prunty

We are cooperating fully with law enforcement and its investigation.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Joseph Beaulieu

Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Marco Coleman

I thought we'd get at least 12 wins, so I'm not too surprised. It's more of a surprise about other teams that have lost that I thought would be better, which helped us out.

Bernie Bickerstaff

I think we played well. Our small lineup really helped us.

Kevin Cato

I think that we let the pressure get to us and we started worrying about other things instead of playing basketball. When the tournament was over, the kids were able to relax and get back to the things that helped us get to where we were at, which were shoot well and playing aggressively.

Steve Karsay

He's a very smart man, especially when it comes to pitchers. Back then, he helped me get to the point where I thought I was at my best.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Jon Daniels

He's 24 years old, a power pitcher. We look at him as a starter. He has a plus fastball, and had some success in the major leagues last year.

Dick Vermeil

He runs with an attitude. He's running to punish the tacklers. He's better right now than last year by far.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Willem de Kooning

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Wilson Greatbatch

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

Mike Jackson

There are still archaeological places (on the island) that are significant to our tribe culturally.

Chris Lee

It has a dream-like quality that takes you to places that don't exist,

S. Walker

In a lot of places this would've come off hokey because there's not the tradition this place has. It works here because it's not contrived. It's genuine. It's real.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Rick Morris

I know that it is coming, such as paving places in Crusader Court, but we don't know the schedule and that's not under our purview.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Bill Clinton

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time

Linda Jeffers

They are sending us to places that we know not of. Who do we know in Kansas?

Brent Heavner

(This) places us consistently within the top 20 programs in the nation.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Don Murphy

I think we've recovered most of the stuff that was taken,

Carlos Parreira

He will stop for two or three weeks, can recover and return in even better condition.

Tyler Florence

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

Wayne Dyer

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

Virginia Satir

I am me and I am okay.

Robin Quivers

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Heather Mills

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

Herman Edwards

We actually recovered that one, ... so we were all right.

John Brady

They were able to get us back on our heels. We weren't able to recover from that.

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Robert Redford

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Will Smith

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Wayne Gretzky

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Sarah Dessen

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Sandra Bullock

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Phil McGraw

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Rene Syler

It's the kind of movie I'd like to go see and that my friends will always tell me, 'Go see this because it's kind of wild and different,'

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.