Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Eaton

We feel like we're in a pretty good spot right now, but we still want to work our way up. There's still almost a third of the season left to play and there's a lot of teams lumped together so we know that we can't afford any long stretch of losses or we could be on the outside looking in.

Virginia Postrel

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

Ban Ki-moon

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

Jane Cutler

Woodside has proven supplies of gas and a proven record of safe delivery. We intend to provide a reliable supply of natural gas to curb the spiraling rise in prices. California deserves affordable energy; we can help ensure that happens.

Jim Goodness

The question is: Where can a parish get the funding to do this kind of work? Can they afford to take some aggressive and unusual steps?

Tim Reuter

We can't afford to lose any more if we have aspirations of a conference championship.

Alex Roland

We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget that they're talking about,

Ron DeHaven

We can't afford for this virus to be smoldering six months before we find it.

Marco Rubio

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Martha Stewart

My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.

Jim Marks

Multi-lender sites allow you to get a good look at the rate market. (Traditionally), it has taken a lot of time and effort to find out what rates are. You'd have to go to two or three different places and possibly even fill out an application each time.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

must not allow itself to be turned into an instrument in denying a nation of its inalienable right.

Hanna Rosin

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

John Thune

my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.

J. H. Wyman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Brian Turner

Now, with those games out of the way, we want to keep watching these players when they return to their clubs and make sure they maintain the standards we expect and that they don't allow bad habits to creep in.

William Dowell

Given the history of Pakistan's nuclear program, these figures will certainly raise a few eyebrows. Pakistan struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop nuclear weapons, and half of their devices failed to go off in their 1998 tests, which created the impression they were still battling to perfect the technology. Pakistan's nuclear program is generally assumed to be heavily dependent on Chinese assistance, and it sounds a little far-fetched that Beijing would allow them to develop a nuclear program on that scale.

Hui Liangyu

We cannot let down our guard, we cannot underestimate the risks of the outbreaks,

James Garner

We cannot keep that department if it continues to run in the red,

James Connaughton

We cannot improperly hatch, and we cannot carelessly catch our way back to salmon recovery.

Zhou Xiaochuan

We cannot ignore the risk of disorderly adjustments in financial markets.

Yuval Steinitz

We cannot ignore the fact that Egypt is the only country in the Middle East that prepares itself for a possible conflagration or war with Israel. And we should preserve our national security interests.

John Shattuck

We cannot hope to see an end to this terrible conflict until the facts are known about what occurred and justice is done. ... That's the moral imperative.

Maajid Nawaz

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

Ariel Sharon

We cannot hold onto Gaza forever, more than a million Palestinians live there...crowded in refugee camps, poverty and hotbeds of hatred with no hope on the horizon,

Charles Dickens

We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it . . .

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Brian Jeroloman

This is their College World Series. That's why you see that celebration.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Bret Ellis

We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

Dennis Franchione

We are seeing far more one-back sets and far more need to be in nickel situations in today's college football than we are seeing two-back sets. We're just kind of basing it on what we are seeing the most and working the other direction basing with the 4-3 and working out to the nickel.

Mark Stout

We are recruiting in Detroit and getting resumes from Detroit, as we are in St. Louis and Atlanta. But everyone we're looking for will not have automotive experience. Some people will come from outside the industry. We'll also hire some recent college graduates.

Chuck Kearney

We are really excited for Shane; this was the perfect ending to his college career. He kept himself focused all tournament long.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Bobby Collins

I thought we played well 35 of 40 minutes. But we've got to put together a full 40 minutes, because teams like A&T never give up.

Ruby Rose

I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.'

Jorge Rodriguez

We looked at his skills, and it only took ten minutes to see that he had the talent to be a great player. I immediately said he should stay. We couldn't let him go. He was the full ticket.

Rick Dempsey

He has not experienced a full season where everything has gone well, where everything has improved. He still needs to do that.

Peter Jackson

He is fantastic, he is strong, he has done a full pre-season. He looks great. And that is the hardest thing to understand.

Larry Hughes

He is just full of life. People gravitate towards him. He'd see young kids out on the track and he'd go right over to them and help them out. That's the kind of person he is.

Kevin Logsdon

He gives us a lot of options with his ball-handling and defense. We've had a lot of bad-luck with injuries and illnesses the past two years. Hopefully, we'll be back at full strength for the tournament.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Billy Donovan

I probably won't start him. Lee is getting better and is progressing, but he probably won't start until he shows me that he can get through a full practice healthy.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.