Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Slifer

Greenspan is trying to be cautious by tapping the brakes ever so lightly, which I think will mean another quarter-point increase soon. This thing has so much momentum that, even though we've raised the speed limit, we're still going a little too fast.

Joe Aquilante

It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising.

Jamie McMurray

This is the hardest place, I think, to qualify because you can have a good car and it's so easy to lock the front brakes up or overdrive the corner. It's one of those places where you can be in the top five in practice and qualify 20th. It's so close.

Jimmy Fennig

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish.

David Lereah

The slowdown amounts to a tapping of the brakes on a hot market.

Jim Marshall

Then all of a sudden brakes get slammed on. Then we hit something and go off the side of the road and tip over,

Greg Anderson

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.

Kenneth Blackwell

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

Elliott Sadler

We got all of it, I think. We're just having a question about the brakes. I think my brakes were dragging the whole time, but as far as the car, the car drove great and the engine felt good.

David LaPointe

He wants to go that route in the comforts of his own home, that's his business, but don't start putting it out there.

Arvo Part

I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me.

O. Singh

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

Atharva Veda

A woman who possesses all the qualities will quite naturally not have any problem in fulfilling her obligations towards her family and quite obviously keep everybody in the family happy and satisfied.A house in which such a woman dwells is always prosperous and full of comforts and luxuries.

Pankaj Mishra

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

Richard Goldstone

(Milosevic) had really quite extraordinary comforts given that he was in prison.

Samuel Johnson

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts

Dan Stephens

Well, we'd rather be playing in the comforts of home Friday. But it will be good to play in a nice facility that's big. It will get us ready for the next round.

Nathaniel Philbrick

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Rachel Wilson

I have no regrets that gives me a great deal of peace and I know that's going to help me in my grieving. He saved countless other lives, and he made it possible for other men and women to come back to their families.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

Paul Bloom

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

Jason Silva

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Michael Rubner

As a result, the droplets flatten and merge into a uniform transparent sheet rather than forming countless individual light-scattering spheres.

Granth Sahib

The sinful residues of countless incarnations depart, and we receive the fruits of the mind's desires.

Steffan Rhodri

I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.

Kaskade

To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

Dave Sica

And he would have had more (shutouts) had we not pulled him with big leads during the season.

Greg Taylor

The combination of the two offensively, as well as, defensively leads the team from the first pitch.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Hideo Mizutani

The market is moving within a small range ... after the 'big event' and the positive response to it. But for now, there are no leads to push the market up further.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Jill Lepore

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Sara Shepard

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Abdul Kalam

Science leads to development of technologies. Availability of technologies leads to products.

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Allison Forsyth

I'm not just going there for the sake of being there.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Henry Ford

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Epicurus

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Marcos Baghdatis

The first two sets I was really stressed out, I didn't know what to do.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Randy Stone

As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.