Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Fierek

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

Ron Turner

That was a big jump for Kyle. We challenged him all week about taking care of the football, taking advantage of opportunities, executing the offense and giving ourselves a chance. Let's see how good we are. Let's see what we can do. We made very few mistakes, and that is what it's all about.

Robert McKinley

That's where the consumer can take advantage of the low interest-rate environment.

Miguel Olivo

Ramon's the man here, ... I just try to take advantage of the opportunity when they call on me.

Keith Kramme

Rachel buckled down and pitched very well in the game. She had some magic with the bat as well, and found a way to get on base in the seventh. We needed to take advantage and we did.

Larry Dickerson

Raytheon has a big advantage in that the U.S. is a leading provider of combat aircraft to the world.

Dana Allin

Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.

Sean Ross

Program directors have to go earlier and earlier to keep the competitive advantage.

Philip Nelson

Producers work in a highly competitive business where the slightest advantage, tool or technique can land you thousands of dollars of business. Attending one of our tour stops is a great opportunity for users to see how they can give themselves a competitive advantage that will take their businesses to the next level.

Michael Ramirez

President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.

Ken Goldberg

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

James Altucher

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Mack Whittle

He studied and learned about the procedure and about the company that made the artificial hip. So he bought a lot of stock in the company and made a bunch of money on it.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Ross is breathing artificial life into the peace process.

Igor Ivanov

without any artificial delays, without any artificial obstacles.

Bertrand Russel

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

Roberto Denis

I don't think anything would have or should have an impact on this state. Every time, they implement some artificial restrictions on the market, they have unintended results.

Bertie Ahern

As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.

Kenneth Clarke

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Thom Yorke

Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned.

Vic Binkley

We were fortunate to get out of here with a win. We were lucky. We're going to have to find a way to win without Blair (Dunn, a sharp-shooting guard who's out until at least next week with mono).

Joe Wilson

Mr Blair came to the US when Mr Bush was talking about regime change, and when he left Mr Bush started talking about disarmament as the objective.

Jeff Turner

We were new in the office business, so we brought Blair on board because he's a seasoned veteran. We told him he'd be a rock star if he leased some of the building -- instead he leased the whole thing.

Paul Kenny

The only thing missing from the retirement party for Blair was a gold clock. It's quite clear that there's an orderly handover taking place. What we saw is the new leader.

Charles Kennedy

History will certainly judge Tony Blair on Iraq, but first the British people will judge him on Thursday, ... Blair's judgment on the Iraq war was fatally flawed.

David Ervine

There is an opportunity, perhaps with what has happened over the weekend with the intervention of Tony Blair from Japan, to concentrate people's minds on the issues.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

Dr. Schaffner

People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.

Carolyn Anderson

People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all want to live longer, stay healthy and enjoy life more.

Ted Saskin

Of equal importance is a discussion on whether the NHL is prepared to move in the direction of having a real revenue sharing program. We are certainly looking forward to hearing what they have developed in this area.

Wendy Ward

Off-the-cuff changes in the prizes certainly keep us on our toes, but what a great recruiting message. We really do enjoy treating our employees well.

Keith Acton

No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.

Aburizal Bakrie

A fuel price increase will happen certainly before January 2006. The sooner it is announced, the better.

Mark Bryant

Oil is certainly not helping, ... We passed $50 a barrel, and as to be expected, people are now talking $60 or more, which is uncharted territory.

Dale Romans

That part of it may be tough for us, but his pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too. He'll gallop 2 1/2 miles and never get tired. What I'm really hoping is the distance will make him that much better.

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.

bell hooks

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Craig Ferguson

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Elif Safak

Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Jimmie Russell

(Coach) felt like (McCloud) could do the job, any of our quarterbacks can play well.

Cathey Lewis

The Sisters had everything set up with enough supplies for months. There was plenty of food, water, paper goods and so forth. We had everything we needed, so we felt safe staying there.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Mark Feehily

I've never tried to hide who I am from anyone, but I'm a very private person and in the past I haven't felt the need to say anything about my sexuality.

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Cheryl Smith

The whole thing with the power of prayer in our minds is true. And a lot of what has happened, and the strength he has gained back and progress he's made, without sounding corny, I think a lot is attributed to prayers.

Josh Brown

This is the first year I haven't lost weight, and I've gained strength.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

Matt Hasselbeck

Whatever we may have lost in talent, we gained in accountability and professionalism and leadership.

Chuck Priefer

Two years ago, he lost a yard off his kickoffs. Last year he gained a half of it back. Last year, his hang time was four-one hundredths (of a second) higher. He was third in the league in touchbacks (with 14).

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance

Don Noorda

Jenn has gained a lot of strength. She worked really hard. She's healthy and ready to come back.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Rita Moreno

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

Tony Blair

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

George W. Bush

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

Christopher Dodd

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Hugh Shelton

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

John F. Kerry

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.