Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Dunleavy

When it counts he knocks down the shots and makes his free throws. We had to hang on but we played a solid game.

Chuck Hagel

John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.

Jack Warner

He ran well. He got off to a real good start, tripped up on a few hurdles in the middle, but what counts is that he scored and earned All-America recognition. I think this is redemption for being left out of last year's indoor meet.

Michelle Wie

I felt really good on the front nine, but just couldn't get anything going on the back nine, ... I still finished under par, so I guess that counts for something.

Ron Hill

He knows the league. He's been around the league for 12 years. That's a quality I think counts for something. He's been around some good programs. You look at the success of those teams, he's had his fingerprints on them. I think he's a good hire for the Vikings.

Jim Tracy

He had a few more three-ball counts -- too many -- than I'd like to see. That puts him in a vulnerable position.

Mike Rucker

They started off hot. But what counts is the fourth quarter and how you finish. It's not how you start; it's how you finish.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

Cardinal Ratzinger

the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.

Kent Hendershot

That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to go out and jump on them. I thought our pressure was pretty effective tonight. We threw a lot of stuff at them and I don't think they ever got in any kind of rhythm.

Peter Power

That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.

Bill Doran

You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Christopher Meyer

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

Yuriko Koike

Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.