Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Brit Hume

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Becky Flynn

We found ways to battle and battle, but not to pull out wins. We won one big game and thought we were turning the corner, but we lost some close ones down the stretch.

Gary Hatch

This was a big game. It has been a good battle this week between two teams.

Dwight Freeney

You double (team) me all day and you double Robert (Mathis) all day, the more doubles you deal out means somebody is going to get a single. We won the battle and we were outnumbered.

James Klein

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

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.

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.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Ian Kawas

We were fairly nervous, just in the sense that we were the favorites. We're rarely the favorites.

Mark Foster

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Kevin Norrish

Markets have already priced in a fairly sizeable production cut.

Stacy Palmer

We really seem at a stage where growth is happening in a fairly spectacular way.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Granth Sahib

The Society of the Guru is not obtained like this, by trying to be near or far away.

Ralph Krueger

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Nick Cannon

You structure the games and then you just hope, you know, everything goes well and it plays funny.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Marianne Bretschneider

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

Jeremy Burk

The only way to go from here is up, and all the girls agree. We've got a great squad and all of the girls are very experienced at golf.

Lena Headey

I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.

Romeo Miller

Girls that I use to try to talk to, now they want to talk to me.

Cecil Burch

My girls are still running strong. They seem to just get better and better. The girls want to set their goals high, too, so they working on making themselves better.

Ric Flair

Girls, you can't be the first, but you can be next.

Frank Oz

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Karen Falana

I would say 75 percent of my girls go on to college. And I would say 90 percent of that group goes on to play rugby in college.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Judd Gregg

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

Mike Ramsey

She's got no case. Never has and never will. If Ms. Pirro had kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

Dr. Beebe

Cheryl was my friend. She kept looking for me (whenever she didn't see me).

Wes Jr

I don't know if my pro-am partners liked me much. I was on the phone all the time, kept text-messaging to know what was happening. I didn't play all that well.

Jose Cortez

I didn't think I was going to get released. I thought I was going to get another week over there and if I kept having those same problems, then I was going to have a problem.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

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.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

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

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Dave Whelan

The whole system and pattern of play under Sven is flawed. We seem to have lost the plot,

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Mike Thibault

Once we made that first run, they weren't able to match it.

Marcos Baghdatis

I've played him second round, third round, quarters. Now it's the final. So every day is different. I just go into the match and play my game, just try not to make a lot of mistakes, just try to make him play. I'll try to find a solution in the match.

John Corcoran

It was the pivotal match in the whole tournament and it was a big win for them and a big win for the team.

Bob White

It was very frustrating. The talent doesn't match the attitude.

John Rittenhouse

This is states, so every match is going to be a challenge.

Holly Brown

The way we've been playing, we're going to be a tough match for them.

Annika Sorenstam

That's just match play, ... That's what makes it so exciting.

Davis III

You see that in match play, and that's why we don't do it every week. It's a little too volatile to do it every week.

Lynn Beattie

We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.

Natalie Grinham

At the moment, because it is the pool matches it is quite a long day ... we don't just wake up and play one match during the day, we play three.

John Cornforth

Liam needs competitive matches and this will do him a world of good.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Mary Christensen

Six matches in one week ... that's a lot. We are so tired. I'm exhausted.

Gary Parker

It is very frustrating. That's two matches which were there for the winning.

Ben Russell

We had to play more. Playing in matches during the week wasn't enough.

Bobby Jackson

We shouldn't get into wrestling matches or trash-talking. In the playoffs, it's who plays the hardest.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Jason Aldean

For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

Brian Hill

That's just our nemesis with this team. We can't seem to keep them off the offensive boards.

Gary Ernst

You have to respect every player. Each player has his own offensive identity.

Courteney Cox

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Rene Portland

Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.

Katie Brunelle

We never really got into our offensive rhythm. All season we've relied on our play in the paint, and they just pressed us outside a lot.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Larry Moore

We just had to get into the passing lanes a little more and watch out for the threes.

Albert Einstein

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Therese of Lisieux

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone remains.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Catriona Matthew

To start with three birdies in a row was perfect,

Charlie Sexton

I can still see that row of one-room shacks,

Josh Smith

That's the first time we've won three in a row since I've been here.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Ringo Starr

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Torin Francis

Right about now, it's all or nothing. We know we had to get two starting tonight.

Cedric Bozeman

I am starting to feel comfortable again. I am banged up, but that's part of what it is right now.

John Edwards

But the starting place of that negotiation would be they have to stop what they're doing now,

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Tiger Woods

You've got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding, ... You never know what can happen. And it turned out well.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Shel Silverstein

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

Demi Lovato

It's a simple law of attraction that you get back what you put out into the universe. The more love you give, the more love you attract. The more love you attract, the more love you receive. WHen we put good energy into the world, we feel good. We make those around us feel good.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Mercedes McCambridge

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Tim Kaine

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Stephen Harper

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Sly Stone

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Michael Moore

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Maria Montessori

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

George Orwell

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Howard Dean

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

Frank Miller

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tom Hooper

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tina Fey

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do.