Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Michael Leunig

If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.

Ricky Ray

If we want to be a team that is going to contend for the Grey Cup, we've got to get better offensively,

Ralph Connor

I'm seeing improvement in our times. We're working at getting better. We would like to defend our sectional championship and see if we can contend for a regional spot. Everybody is working very hard enough that we'll see improvement during the year.

Ben Wolcott

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. One good thing is we don't have the heat and wind to contend with.

Mark Shapiro

It was acknowledging that we lacked upper-level prospects. That was a middle-of-the-road move, trying to contend and rebuild. But it was the last middle-of-the-road move that we made.

Sarah Patterson

Things didn't go perfectly for us tonight. But I think what we learned from tonight will be invaluable for us down the road and will serve to make us a better team. We had great team work, we had enthusiasm and we saw great leadership from a few of our veterans. We also saw the determination and enthusiasm from our freshmen that are going to help us contend in the future.

Wendy Lee

I think it's a good thing. Any diet that restricts healthful foods in vitamins and minerals is not good in the short term.

Mary Quant

I have been on a diet since 1962.

American Society

I can go on a Twinkie diet and if it's restricted enough I will lose weight,

Ciputra

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

Cathy Nonas

He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was a businessman. He made his diet into an industry, and it made him a very wealthy man.

Karin Michels

Researchers are finding more evidence that diet early in life could play a role in the development of diseases in women later in life,

Breine Stevens

If you're worried about weight gain, diet pop should be the least of your worries. I've never heard of this study and therefore would question its validity.

Rick Peterson

If you want to lose 15 pounds, it's not fair to get on the scale the first day of your diet and be discouraged if you didn't lose any weight. If your process and frame of mind are correct, then you'll lose the weight. It's the same thing with Jorge. He's learning the process, and soon he'll see ? we'll all see ? the results.

Joel Fuhrman

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Masashi Kishimoto

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

Skyler Samuels

I had a great time working on 'The Gates,' and that was my first real experience doing supernatural television, working with the special effects and everything that goes into making a supernatural show.

Adam Brown

If you look at all the speakers after the last Fed meeting, they've all held to the same line: Inflation is running on the higher side of where they're comfortable, and the growth effects from the hurricanes will be temporary.

David Card

Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.

Martha Stewart

I'm sure it's had effects on me, ... I may talk about it. I may not. But I think that I'm just really looking forward to what we're doing. I'm looking forward to the next few years of great productivity and great growth for this company.

David Boothe

The important thing to note is that no human health effects are known from exposure to PFOA.

Douglas Duncan

The effects of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi are reflected in the overall level of national delinquencies.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Henry Chan

I think it's a healthy correction, some valuations got a little high.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Karl Dorrell

He's healthy enough, he's throwing the ball, he's getting his timing back,

Bob Filner

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

Jacques Rogge

We support that (tests). The reason for the tests is to protect the health of the athletes. These are health tests, they are not doping tests.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

J. Horton

It is important to help the troops stay healthy as they help others,

Jerry Garcia

Well, you know Tom, I'm no health nut

Hugh Johnson

I'm not going to ignore the deterioration in a stock.

Tom Knight

The DOE numbers are with range of expectations and traders could ignore the data.

Terry Pratchett

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Cynthia Rezentes

It sends a strong message to the administration that we can't just ignore this and take our time.

Jack Curtis

It's exciting. We talked a lot about this being just another game. But you couldn't ignore all the people. It was always there in the back of your mind.

Bill Bradley

For 10 months that I was running for president, you ignored me, you pretended I didn't exist,

Tom Burchill

You can't ignore it. When the kids go out, step out of the doorway, people are talking about it. We're known for that. This can't go on forever. That's just an impossibility. But maybe it can go on for a long time.

Adam Ereli

This is unfortunately not inconsistent with past North Korean practice, which is to ignore the needs of its people and let them starve for inexplicable reasons.

Ronald Walters

They (Republicans) have pretty much ignored them, and it's not Mel's fault.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.