Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

Bill DeWalt

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

Mario Monti

A few years ago, if a European regulator had raised two eyebrows or even one, the chief executive would have backed off. The courage wasn't there. Now, in a sense, the king is naked.

Bob Letsch

(Roncalli) backed off of him and gave him that shot. A lot of times people think that we just try to get the ball inside ... but we can shoot the 3, too.

Terry Goodson

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Mark Howell

She was kind of the outspoken conscience of Philadelphia, Mississippi in the turbulent times. She never backed down from her principles.

Lorie Cook

She knows the tradition, the expectations for several years and she hasn't backed off from either of those. She's stepped right up. Sometimes kids aren't too confident competing. She thinks it's really fun. She's very motivated to get better. She doesn't mind hard work.

Trot Nixon

I didn't have any fan interference at all. They backed away. I commend those fans there. I gave them a little tip of the cap.

Jon Favreau

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Billy Cox

(Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he started 'The Star Spangled Banner,' that impromptu thing, you hear the first four, five, or six notes; I'm in there with him. Then I said, 'Wait a minute, we didn't rehearse this, and it doesn't sound too good with me playing.' I backed away, and he continued and made a classic out of that.

Rep. Schultheis

I'm not about to vote for something that is a sham. This bill backed off from any real enforcement at all. You don't have enforcement, you don't have a bill, and let's not fool the public.

Ian Gold

We did not complete the mission and it's frustrating.

Jack Ma

Currently, it seems the second phase has been completed smoothly and even better than my expectations. Now we are entering the third phase of reshaping.

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Ned Riley

Today we're in the bottom- fishing mode and there are a lot of people who think the tech correction is complete and we've established our lows for this cycle.

Thomas Russo

Warren comes complete with three skills: a consummate investor, a superb businessman and a great cheerleader.

Alan Curry

We are very pleased that the legal tactics of the defense have been rejected by the court of appeals, and we are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.

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Walt Sanchez

We want to play as complete a game as we can when March rolls around. Right now, there's room for improvement in a few areas.

Rodney Harrison

We weren't up to par. Similar to (our opener) last year, we played rusty. We didn't play a complete game. We gave up some easy touchdowns, didn't really communicate well.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Brian Cashman

That's what's required of them. That's what a No. 1 and a No. 2 guy's job is, to lead a staff. And we have full confidence in them.

Brendan Fay

We're here to protest the hypocrisy of the church. To restore confidence and trust of the faithful, there needs to be an apology.

Brian Tracy

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Brian Tracy

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

John Bolton

We did not have sufficient confidence in this text to be able to say that the Human Rights Council will be better than its predecessor.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

James Blake

I feel confident to go after my shots and feel pretty clear-minded at big moments,

Lil' Kim

will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Tom Saltzstein

He's got a huge upside and he's only going to get stronger. At 6-9, 200 pounds, he's extremely, extremely athletic.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Robert Cerundolo

It is, not to use a cliche, but, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We feel that in our hearts and our heads. We are all extremely excited.

Janet Anderson

I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support were involved and the police were wonderful.

Avery Johnson

We just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. We're still firm that they're not going to come back until they're ready. And they're not ready. We probably won't have them back in the next game or two.

Liz Phair

No firm plans, ... But we're all talking about it.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Bina Ramani

We are the only witnesses who stood firm in the case, but we did not hear anything (about the look-out notices) from the police.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

John Hanley

I can't, and don't even know that. I do know there are no firm plans yet.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Kathleen Blanco

I'm just as pleased as I can be that we were able to expedite the process of getting a Louisiana firm on site, working as quickly as possible and actually, I think, a little head of schedule,

Patrick Collins

The law firm . . . was the staging ground of this stunt.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Cedomir Jovanovic

We have to remove the judges who were the spearhead of the former regime.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

Erskine Bowles

will lay a strong foundation for further action.

Hu Jintao

We hope that this question can be appropriately addressed so as not to undermine the political foundation of China-Canada relations,

Gordon B. Hinckley

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

Hosea Ballou

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

Edward Meir

Commodities seem to be a rather popular alternative (to bonds, equities and the dollar) for funds searching for a trend.

Ronald Fisher

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

Bob Livingston

Now they are going to have to fund his research and he has the opportunity to show his stuff,

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Jason Kelly

If a fund has $100 million in assets, it means it's a real player, ... The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Funds.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Chris Foster

As things get refined, we'll seek further input.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Koji Endo

so how much of the further reduction is possible remains to be seen.

Donna Perry

She was trying to further this incident even trying to kill someone,

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Adam Braun

Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

Abraham Maslow

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Chuck Grassley

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.

Christopher McDougall

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.