Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Abdullah

We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Denis Waitley

The ability to adapt is everything!

Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Rosabeth Kanter

The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance.

Gavin Rossdale

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

Gerald Cohen

Unlike traditional application integration vendors and the pure-play BI players, Information Builders has a history of offering an integrated approach to business intelligence and is the only vendor to take an incremental approach to integration. As more and more enterprises are faced with linking critical business applications such as BI, CRM and ERP, the ability to leverage these existing investments will make for more effective application output fit for business use.

Ken Hayes

We are proud to be recognized in the magic quadrant report. We believe our listing in the Challenger quadrant confirms our ability to sustain our position in the marketplace. Looking forward, we will continue to position ourselves in the forefront of the industry by delivering superior help desk services.

Donna Dubinsky

We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth in what is usually a sequentially down quarter in our industry.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

John Talbot

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Limas Sweed

We always believe. That's something coach Brown talks about a lot. You always come out and believe in each other. We told the defense, 'We get the ball back, we're going to make things happen, we're going to make plays and that's exactly what we did.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Linda Kilpatrick

The point guard is very solid. She handles the ball strong, runs the offense well and can hit the open shot.

Bob Ferguson

We've always been known as a option team. But we've been able to pass the ball the past couple of games and get ourselves out of some trouble. We hit some big third downs and some long passes and it was good for us.

M. Thompson

We started to go inside. We were in the bonus and double bonus early. We figured let's establish things in the post. We have two good posts and we got them the ball and let them go to work.

Ron Reed

We started to get loosened up there in the second half and that really made the game different. The kids shared the ball well, and they had fun. They were just a great group of kids.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Greg Wilkins

We are pleased to reach this significant milestone. The powerful combination of these companies will bring the assets, people and projects together to deliver value to all stakeholders.

Rod Thorn

We are pleased to bring Cliff back. He is a seasoned player who defends well in the low post and can also step outside to make a three-point shot.

Ed Huydic

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

Bobby Jackson

We started this really for race relations, to bring people together from all races and to show that people can get along. Before the race we brought about this heritage house to promote unity.

Melissa Gregory

We started talking via e-mail for a couple of months. Then we decided to bring him over for a tryout. From the first time we skated together, we just knew.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Andrew Pantano

We are a full-service caterer that will bring everything to an event from the food to the tables, the liquor, decorations and of course a professional staff.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Ron Duchesneau

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Elizabeth Ivey

The other thing is you need a good solid work force and 50 percent of us is female, so just play the numbers.

Method Man

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

Harry M. Wyatt III

We had the best-equipped and we have the best-trained military force on the face of the earth, right here in Oklahoma.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Chris Brady

We were trying to force things too much. We were too impatient.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Neil Peart

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

Michael Leunig

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Kenneth Fisher

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Kermit Baker

For consumers, this means they are going to get contractors who return phone calls, and they are going to be able to get two or three bids, instead of just one.

Mo Ibrahim

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Will Blalock

We're not going to settle for jump shots because they say they are going to stop it. They still have to stop it. We're going to run our offense.

Charles M. Schulz

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Bill Walton

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Lenny Jefferson

We're ready to play when we come up from the locker room. We jump on teams and sustain it.

Carl Crawford

It's just one of of those things you have to program yourself to not worry about. It's no reason to jump on our starting pitchers. We just have to go out and score more runs.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Scott Gardiner

We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tightening up in our own zone, opening it up in the offensive zone like we have been the past month or so, and 60 minutes of effort.

Bryan Adams

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Chris Lofton

We've got heart. We don't back down from nobody. We're going to come at you for 40 minutes and get after you, and that's just how it is.

Cedric Bozeman

It's a start. We'll see how it goes. Only time will tell (how many minutes I actually play).

Sylvia Hatchell

For about three minutes in the second half, it seemed like they played on a different level. They toughened up and went to another level.

Sean Taylor

It's swollen pretty good. Hopefully, he'll be able to give us some minutes (tonight).

Mike Chasson

There may be only 20 to 30 minutes between them.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Marcus Giles

It's just a finger. It's not a hamstring or a knee. It's just a finger. I've got nine more.

Drake Bell

'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

Alex Rodriguez

I've always said that for a short series, because of Randy, we become more problematic for other teams. But at the same time, you've got to go out and play nine innings.

Mark Eaton

After nine years I think it's time to give someone else the chance.

Pat Hill

I've been here for nine years. Nine years is a long time in one place.

Alain Vigneault

You shouldn't need a carrot. There are eight, nine teams right now that are in a tight pack and we're right up there with them.

Ian Mckellen

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

James Norton

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

Cheryl Cole

We're so inconsistent. That's what's scary about us, I'm sure for anybody's who's playing us, but it's also scary for me because I don't know what team we're going to be tonight.

Tony Harper

We're going to play the same way we've been playing all year.

Chris Plummer

We're seeing more and more playing on it.

Dennis Brooks

We're right where we need to be. We've been playing very tough.

Lora Staveness

We were in a position where we could go out and do it. That's what we were playing for. ... Whether it's a tie or not, that's the way the seniors wanted to go out.

Bob Schulz

We better play better than we are playing right now.

Dick Hunsaker

Weber State is on a two-game win streak. They are playing well and with a lot of confidence.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Erin Sullivan

We want to score early. And score often.

Bill Watterson

The score is still Q to 12!

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Nick Hartigan

It's encouraging because we don't have to do any scoreboard watching at all. It's all in our hands.

Nicklas Lidstrom

They were going for it, too. They were trying to score a goal. They were all going forward, and I stepped up at the right time.

Christian Vieri

It's not like I have to score more than him, we have to play together,

Kelly Whitney

They're a scrappy team that doesn't score a lot of points.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Kathleen Nash

We've been able to step things up in big games.

Kevin Haggerty

What we're really in here is a race, and we're usually one step behind,

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Juwan Howard

With Tracy out of the game, we all had to step up.