Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Abdul Sattar

We hope that the two leaders will be forward-looking ... and try to identify a direction in which that will lead us to a solution acceptable to the Kashmiri people.

Wayne Wilkinson

If you're going to come back with a couple of trees, that's not going to be acceptable to me.

William Wiley

I never really worked with watercolor very much. I messed with water-based paints in high school and stuff, and out of the Northwest that was a more acceptable tradition as a main voice, you know, with Graves and Toby.

Wu Dawei

I hope the parties concerned could continue to participate in consultations in an earnest, responsible, flexible and pragmatic attitude so as to seek solutions acceptable to all parties,

Dr. Kohn

The idea that tobacco use is normal and that it is socially acceptable because respected adults and others do it encourages kids to pick up the habit. Tobacco-free school policies are helping change the perception that smoking and chew are okay.

Rob Manuel

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.

Gareth Evans

The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Henning Kagermann

Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.

Robin Bhar

Against this background, speculative buying underpinned a rise in prices.

John Cridland

Against this background firms are cutting back on their investment plans and expect the rate of job losses to increase.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

Against this backdrop, developments in Iran not just on the question of proliferation, but also on the issue of external security and the impact on life in our own country as well represent a danger.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

Chris Simms

Put him up there as the greatest player in Texas history right now. He might have been there, but to have that performance and that game - what do they call it, an instant classic? That was it.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mack Strong

It was very surreal. I came home one day and she said, 'You're moving.' I said, 'No, we're not moving.' Then about a day later I call a call from a coach and he said, 'Pack your bags.' That was a weird time in our history.

Roger Williams

The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame.

Tom DeLay

Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode

Rebekah Brooks

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

Jon Runyan

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Source Unknown

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Steven Kaplan

This is a whole new era. This is a whole new day. We cannot be stopped. No one can hold us back,

John Parks

The way the damage was done to the shack it was not due to the wood stove or a candle. It was negligence but we cannot prove it.

Billy Graham

The fact is, we cannot truly face life until we have learned to face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Mark Calcavecchia

Even dating back to the late 80s when I was making everything I looked at, I still missed a lot of short putts, because I cannot stay still over them,

Angela Bridges

First of all, students have to actually grieve to get over it. They cannot just ignore the situation. If they ignore it and push it aside, they never really grieve.

Steve Bruce

We have done everything we can to support him. But we cannot live his life for him.

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy

Zach Galligan

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

Bible Bible

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Robert Fisher

We can't just destroy a resource for the sole purpose of getting it out of the water. We have to be responsible and treat it as a resource.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Lang Lang

So I think for me, it's nice, like a big brother, I can tell them what should pay attention, what shouldn't pay attention, what words you should take, what things you shouldn't take.

Jeff Kagan

People who want traditional phone service will pay what they are paying now.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Sam Houston

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

Tim Storey

We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water.