Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

Killing people doesn't accomplish anything. We as a country and we as a state know what justice is.

Frank Michalowski

He wanted to be seeded No. 1, but I like the position he's at. He can accomplish anything he puts his mind to. He's very positive with what he wants to accomplish and that's more than half the battle.

Michael Chang

He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how professionals accomplish things so young. I had the feeling Tiger Woods did not quite know what was going on and it was like that for me at the French. It was only afterwards that I realized the significance.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

Steve Roberts

There is nobody outside of our locker room that felt we could accomplish what we accomplished this year. There's nobody outside of our locker room that predicted that we could be in the situation that we were in.

Tom Ridge

We've engaged the law enforcement community around this country, but there are also certain things we can do within this country outside of law enforcement that would be a deterrent to an attack, ... The president's strategy gives us a road map to accomplish that.

Steve Johnson

We told the kids that it's important to get off to a good start when you're playing away from home. The fact we came out aggressive on both ends of the court allowed us to accomplish this tonight.

Chris Kelly

We are fighting hard together to save this company, and many painful sacrifices will be required from a wide range of stakeholders in order to accomplish that goal.

George Baker

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Jens Orback

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Eric Price

He's healthy. He's probably a lot healthier now than he was a year ago at this time. He was fighting (the groin injury) most of the season last year. It got to be 100 percent during the spring, but it's been off-and-on since. Now he's putting a string together of good days. I don't want to jinx him, but he's doing a great job.

Dana Altman

I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.

Mike Morris

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.

Joerg Haider

We are fighting for a free-market economy. This means we want to open our economy, which is heavily protected by the state.

Doug Henderson

It is not for the faint-hearted, but it is important that we know what we were fighting for,

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Sue Townsend

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

William Safire

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.

William J. Brennan

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

Kelsea Ballerini

I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.

Doug Wilson

I know it's a very volatile and painful experience. I'm sorry the people sitting in this room are the ones affected.

Steve Carell

I had no idea it would be as painful as it was, ... It really stung.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Nhat Hanh

The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.

Lee Strobel

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Leslie Bennetts

It's tremendously painful for her to dredge all of this up. It makes her feel very vulnerable and very exposed.

Gideon Meir

They are paying a really painful price. It's a painful process.

Xabi Alonso

It was so disappointing for us and a painful defeat,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Upinder Dhillon

It's stunning, shocking use whatever word you want. We're in disbelief. When you know somebody well, and you don't have any idea of something like that happening, it's a whole range of emotions.

Paul Gascoigne

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

John Gilbride

They utilized a wide range of smuggling, the most repulsive of which was the use of puppies.

Jim Stone

They (USDB) have a wonderful range of capabilities.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Paul Gascoigne

The most important thing is to get Rangers into the Premiership.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Paul Cleave

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Sarah Kane

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

Sara Shepard

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together.

Rashad Anderson

I wouldn't say it's wide open. But I know we aren't going to lose.

Quentin Moses

With me, with my decision, I'm wide open.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

John Oates

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

Jack Hooper

That makes them widely consumable all over the world.

Brian Lovejoy

It's going to be a soaking rain. It's going to be a widespread rain.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,