Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

A twig is bent while it is green.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Jeffrey Steingarten

admits he prefers Haagen-Dazs to Ben & Jerry's. Even so, he salutes Carbone's efforts to be different. ''There is something good and enlivening and even ennobling about food that makes you laugh, that makes you curious, makes you wonder.

Avram Chomsky

ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

Joe Suboticki

Defense is what carries us. It got us the momentum and it got us some easy baskets. That's how we got that run.

Lao Tzu

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem

Adam Everett

That type of energy carries us, ... This is the time of year when you have to let it all hang out and he definitely does. We wouldn't be where we (are) without him.

Jack White

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Ray Rhodes

You look at his leadership and the way he carries himself on and off the field. This kid stepped in right away, and all the players migrated to him. He had a command in the huddle, and the leadership just oozes out of him.

Justin McCareins

You look at him and the way he carries himself, and oftentimes you don't think of him as injured. Even though he's not playing, he's always in every meeting.

Mark Martin

There's no one in this sport right now, there's no driver in the sport that carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. There just won't be another one. I don't think there ever will be.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Chan Gailey

I've said, 'Hey, it doesn't matter who walks on the field. You have to get ready to play,' ... It does not matter who's in the game and who's not in the game.

Tom Amstutz

I spent time this winter working and talking about leadership with our team. Once we get back out on the football field we will see the leadership develop. It's important that when a group of seniors leave, a new group of leaders emerges.

Pat White

I've been doing this since I was four years old. Nothing on the field scares me.

Frank Gonzalez

The worldwide tsunami research field used to involve maybe 200 people.

Bruce Bochy

You would think that we are playing at Coors Field the way these games are going.

Huston Street

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about walking off the field with a win.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Louise Redknapp

Put it this way. We're going to need football boots.

Kent Baer

I've never seen a better one than him. He showed it on that punt. That's the kind of football player he is. He's always been a great football player. I think he's playing harder now than I've ever seen him play. I think he's on a mission. I think he'd like to prove something.

Nick Hornby

I've never particularly wanted to read a football novel.

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Michael Washington

I sleep with a football. I have to have the football with me. It's part of my love for the job. I usually sleep with it next to my hip.

Marshall Faulk

Is it hard? It's hard. I mean, it's not easy. There's some work that's involved. But it's just like everything else -- you work for it, you get it. And if you sit down and you talk about it and you make it like, 'Oh, it was rough. It was tough.' There are kids at home scratching their heads like, 'Oh, boy, I don't have what it takes to make it because I can't run the football like he does.' That has nothing to do with it. When I talk to kids, I let them know it's not about that. You can do it. You don't have to be a football player to do it.

Carl Crawford

I understood. He got the point across, ... But that's OK. I'm a football guy. I'm used to a guy being up in my face. It motivates me. I don't take it personally.

Barkhad Abdi

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Baha'u'llah

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Baha'u'llah

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

Barbara Mikulski

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

Augusten Burroughs

You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Carlos Acosta

The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Bill Gray

I've talked with our kids about this is a new season.

Carl Douglas

I've used separation as a punishment. The kids may not realize that they care, but if you separate them, they realize, 'Hey, I miss my sibling,' and they want to share again.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Scott Preuninger

It was a long week. I think the kids are more relieved than anything. We're happy.

Tommy Thompson

It was a perfect day for golf. The kids were just about at where I thought they would be score-wise.

Misty Streitweiser

These were two young kids whose lives were just fishing.

Steve Corson

I sent her like a 10-page e-mail with warning after warning after warning. All the mothers did. The kids acknowledge it, but no matter how smart they are, they are still young and naive. They just don't think that way.

J. Horton

I wasn't sure if he was going to pitch (tonight). He tweaked his back lifting weights and it was 50-50 if he would pitch.

Andruw Jones

They're a real solid team now, Maybe I'm not lifting enough weights.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Jeff Larson

This was very important to us. We've talked about this since we were little kids.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Jill Lepore

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

Bob Brown

The weight of it was all on his shoulders, and he responded well.

Augusten Burroughs

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Donna Air

I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.

Deepak Chopra

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Andrew Weil

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

Mark Teixeira

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.