Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

I've touched base with him just to make sure he is ahead of schedule at this point. He's fully aware of how important it is for him to be in a little better shape to start out spring training than what he's probably accustomed to.

Farris Lowery

That swing at the end of the first half was an example of something happening that we're not accustomed to. We're usually pretty good in that situation ... but not that time.

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Miranda Lambert

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Mark Reed

Obviously, change is difficult. Anytime you take something away someone is accustomed to, there's going to be some hand wringing. But Sun did an excellent job of restructuring, so there could be some win-wins.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.

Michael Kohs

Because of the injury, he's been frustrated all year. He's not able to play at the level he's accustomed to.

Mickey Andrews

Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It's all about getting 11 people swarming to the ball, gang tackling. We're doing a lot better job of that this year, a lot more like were accustomed to.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k

Tom Rath

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

Richard Boucher

Best of our knowledge at this time, none of these actions have actually been implemented,

William James

To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy . . . we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.

George Robertson

public trust is essential to an effective judicial system and one judge's conduct may have a significant impact upon the public's perception of the entire judicial system ...

Christopher Dodd

This is the first time in more than 200 years that the federal government will take a very proactive role in the conduct of elections,

Tommy Franks

Feedback from the special forces conducting the raid,

Bhagavad Gita

Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor good conduct nor truthfulness.

Robert H. Grubbs

Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

Brad Mitchell

If, after conducting market research, we find the public wants Christopher, we may revisit the decision.

Flavio Briatore

I was at no time directly or indirectly involved in the conduct of these negotiations.

Ross Perot

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

Mark Smith

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Kathleen Farrell

Due to the success of the yard sale we held on Sept. 10 at which $1,600 was raised, ... we are having another sale this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, rain or shine.

Linda Lewis

Due to the shear number of students, we need the position to be able to provide a quality program for our students,

Carlos Hokama

Due to these two factors, the market is in waiting mode.

Ed Hatch

Due to them, the Warner Bros. studio has been one of the most consistent, steady and stable studios of in the last decade.

Paul Bradley

Due to the combination of lower severity and the lower anticipated individual losses, we do not expect substantial losses to the industry, in aggregate.

Howard Simon

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

David Wray

We took a poll of our members. Seventeen percent of our members said they intended to implement the Roth 401(k) in 2006. Eighty-three percent were going to wait and see or were not going to do it at all.

Richard Costigan

We can go to the PUC and implement the policy of SB 1, and that is where we will be going.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Fareed Zakaria

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.