Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Bennett

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

Barbara Sher

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

Andy Reid

They were criticized a little bit, rightly so. They stepped their game up and that's what good players do when they're put in that position.

Ozzie Guillen

It's not easy when you play or work in one place that many years and all of a sudden you're gone. Because it happened to me before, I'm not going to criticize Frank.

Joseph Addison

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

John Sheridan

It is unfortunate that this most important project has been criticized and delayed for wholly invalid reasons.

Wes Walz

I took so many things for granted as a young hockey player. From the time I was 20 to 24, I was the first guy to criticize somebody else if I wasn't playing well. I was lazy. That frustrated my dad a lot. I remember him telling me, if you put something into it, and work hard, you'll always get something out of it. You won't know when it's going to happen. It could be years down the road.

Erin Crocker

Ray criticized some things I did on the track. Fair enough, he wasn't mean about it but I'd rather have someone speak the truth to me any day than tell me different.

Rig Veda

A person treading on the sinful path is not only criticized but is also full of blemishes.

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Barney Frank

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

Armstrong Williams

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Bob Watson

We respect the dilemma that A-Rod is in, and we wanted to give him as much time as he needed to make his decision. Are we surprised that the Dominicans have included him on their roster? No.

Wayne Smith

This is a dilemma for U.S. officials of their own making.

Tipper Gore

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Scott Turow

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.

Socrates

You don't know what you don't know.

Dennis Ross

On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.

Victoria Jackson

That was, my whole dilemma was that when I got my first movie part The Pick Up Artist, I was playing a loose girl.

Ian Johnson

We're all trying to work our way around this dilemma and find a solution,

Connie Collins

That's a management and organization dilemma for many teachers. Even me as a seasoned teacher, I love to have a second person in here when we are doing the hands-on (activities).

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Zachary Mann

There's been no specific increased activity. We make detentions and seizures all the time.

Craig Williams

That was 31/2 years ago, and the controversy has only increased over time.

Hideaki Furumaya

Oil and geopolitical tensions have increased the reasons to sell the dollar, so I think it will remain sluggish for the time being.

Keith Gumbinger

A quarter point here, a quarter point there, and soon you start to feel the pain of significantly increased monthly payments,

Michael Campbell

I've actually increased my lead by one shot.

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Charles Soludo

What we're losing in volume we're making up in price.

Eliza Dushku

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

Che Guevara

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Che Guevara

One must endure without losing tenderness.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Lucio Tan

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Cass Gilbert

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Chen Guangcheng

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Greg Helstrom

I've worn down opponents before and today that's what he did to me.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Dean Rahas

We like to pressure our opponents and play an up-tempo game. We're young, and we're still developing.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Curtis Jackson

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Tommy Douglas

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

Vince Carter

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

Suzanne Collins

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

David Viscott

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Bear Grylls

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Denis Waitley

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

Denis Waitley

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Deborah Moggach

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Jenny Holzer

Any surplus is immoral.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Donald Trump

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

Donald Trump

I pay tremendous numbers of taxes.

Donald Trump

I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

Chuck Palahniuk

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Hilary Clinton

As I understood it, it was not, no,

Joan Van Ark

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Stephen Covey

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.