Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Glick

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Nick Saban

We're still competing at that position, but Gus has taken most of the reps. That's the way it is right now.

Russ Howard

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

Fred Moran

We're seeing an influx of competition on national level with various players partnering together, ... Now we have a number of fully national partnerships competing head to head.

Terry Parks

We've got good kids. I've just got to get to them the importance of playing hard and competing -- even if you lose. Go with what you know. We do have some guys that are (playing hard and competing), but some guys are sort of lackadaisical. Once we figure that out, we'll be fine.

Anne Cribbs

We are all for people competing in whatever sport they want to compete.

Elyce Kastigar

Unfortunately, Nikki was competing when her health was not very good yet but still put out a good race.

Colin Curtis

We feel comfortable and have more freedom once we have runners on with the plays we can run. If we get a couple runs it's a little more assuring knowing that he's up there competing and we have faith he's going to get the job done.

Michael Goodman

We're getting more and more products that are competing in essentially the same space.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Al Sharpton

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Al Jarreau

I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

Kirk Hayes

We want to start an endowment fund for the foundation, but it may take a couple years.

Chris Colfer

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

Chipper Jones

It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the season, ... You learn from that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Charles Spurgeon

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

Charles Spurgeon

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Audre Lorde

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Arthur Rimbaud

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

Denis Waitley

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Harper Lee

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Mark Twain

The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Tom Zupancic

When you walk into this stadium you won't be able to walk out of it without knowing what the name of the stadium is going to be.

William Shakespeare

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

Jeff Lerg

They made smart plays going to the net.

Sam Blank

They have come through all season. I know I can rely on them to make the plays when we need to.

James Stokes

They don't run a lot of plays but they run them well.

Dan McDavid

They put some pressure on the quarterback and made some plays for us.

Andrew Bogut

It's not one of those plays you can't really practice. It just worked out.

Lindy Ruff

It still comes down to a speed game. You're not going to have a lot of time, especially on the rush, to stop up and make a lot of plays because that back pressure is going to run you over. So it'll be interesting in that sense. He still has to skate. You can't pull up and stickhandle.

Peter Forsberg

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

Bobby Jones

There were a lot of plays where we got the short end of the stick.

Jeff Tedford

There were a lot of plays to be made and we didn't make them.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

Robinson Cano

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Chris Capuano

It seems like we've been scoring a lot of runs in my starts. Even when I haven't pitched well, we've been able to find ways to win.

Alan Trammel

A lot of things aren't going our way. You score that many runs in the first inning and then give up six, it's depleting and it takes its toll on you.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Brenda Ball

There were so many times we didn't think she would make it through the night, so many runs to the hospital.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

FKA twigs

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

Ray Preston

That's what they do. They'll make eight-point runs on you. That's why they're No. 1 in (the) section.