Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Slater

As deep as their outfield was playing there, you've got to take a shot to score there. I'd rather make an error of aggression than passivity.

Alan Ackerman

Enron's quick collapse touched off more aggressiveness by regulators and prompted them to dig more deeply into executive dealings.

Cedric Bozeman

Err on aggression has been our key. If you're going to make a mistake, make a mistake aggressively. Defense is definitely carrying us, and we pride ourselves on that.

Mark Ternent

Black bear aggression is most often the result of a human intentionally or unintentionally threatening a bear, its cubs, or a nearby food source, and the best reaction is to defuse the threat by leaving the area in a quiet, calm manner.

Jim Brown

It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

Roy Jorgenson

We've had a couple of good surprises. I had a couple players step up and show good aggression. They have a lot of desire on the squad. They have a willingness to learn.

Ryan Gosling

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

Charli Thorne

We got tentative, we lost our aggressiveness at both ends. We made some goofy turnovers. We knew they would make a push with Wiggins and Smith, but I felt good about our chances.

Dick Cheney

We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terrorists and a record of reckless aggression to dominate the Middle East and to threaten the United States of America.

Juan Somavia

No worker should be imprisoned or penalized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities,

Mia Hamm

This is emotional, and I'm truly speechless, ... I was expecting to be a follower tomorrow night, just to go wherever I was pointed, and now I'm carrying the flag. It's a tremendous honor and I thank my fellow Olympians for thinking of me.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

Saurav Kalra

When a heart breaks, there isn't any sound, but an echo, that goes around carrying all those precious moments spent together.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Cal Nichols

No. If there's profit, it'll go to reducing the debt. We're still carrying $30 million in debt.

Bruce Bochy

If we are carrying only 11 pitchers, it gives us more depth and flexibility on the bench, ... You don't usually need more than 11 pitchers in a short playoff series with the days off.

Simon Langford

If the displays don't make it onto the floor in time, Wal-Mart has not maximized sales and is carrying too much stock at the end of the promotion.

John Wade

If something happens to me because I was carrying weight, then it's on me. I'm the one who chose to be a lineman. If I wanted to play football, I was going to be a lineman. That's the skill I was given. If you're really that worried about it, do something else.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Gary Swenson

Athletically he can do it. We don't sit and worry if he is going to get hurt or not. He could be an every-down player. We have enough depth that guys can spell him if we have to. His focus has to be at tailback. We will rest him on defense if we have to.

Erik Coleman

As long as we're in meetings going over the routes and how to play them and talking out the defense when we're out on the field, I think we'll be on the same page and be successful back there, no matter who we put in there.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Heath Miller

As it will be every week, we're going to take what the defense gives us. The defense will dictate where we're going to go with the football.

Jack Leggett

That was a big play there and we made a few more after that. (Elon) is a good hitting team and our defense and pitching got it done.

Craig Barr

That was a big play for them. Our defense played really well after that. We got three of their turnovers.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Joe Tracy

As people get older, they definitely start dropping a lot of the look requirements they have in their mind. They're more successful at finding what they want, and that's why they do well with personality sites that match them; it's easier for them to skip over the players.

Eddy Curry

As long as I'm able to walk, and run up and down the court, I'm going to definitely try to give it all I got. I'll be 100 percent real soon.

Juicy J

As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.

Jeff Perreault

That penalty was definitely a turning point in the game.

Jennifer Allen

Radio is incredibly effective in the Spanish-speaking community. It's definitely been an impetus.

Nathan Brown

Ray McLean said it's definitely a three-year process and I don't think you can underestimate the value of good leadership,

Dolores Huerta

Pride and roots is what it is. It definitely does not mean separation or nationalism in the sense that we want to go back to Mexico.

Gary Towne

Our sights are set on improving over our performance last year. I definitely think we have the talent to get the job done.

Tyleen Tausaga

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

Joe Garagiola

The White Sox (early 60s) are rightly called the 'Hitless Wonders' -- their idea of offense is a walk, an error and a hurricane.

Pam Iorio

That's why, I think, any order to evacuate has to come early. Sometimes we're going to err on the side of caution,

Charles Lyons

This will not happen again, ... This was an error of judgment. I've learned a lot.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Blaise Pascal

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

George Eliot

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Barbara Jordan

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

Barbara Kingsolver

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Arthur Koestler

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Ayn Rand

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Brendan Behan

You made one mistake. You married me.

Jamie Dimon

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Brian Weiss

You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.