Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyndi Valentin

As far as the team, we didn't want to end our careers like that. We wanted to fight, stay alive and keep playing.

David Blitzer

As long as Alan Greenspan's not frowning, I'm not too worried.

Lee Sentell

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Graham Cluley

That points to the guy in Turkey, who is alleged to have paid the worm author for writing Zotob.

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

E. B. White

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitate sex.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Kevin McCarthy

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

Clint Bolick

Napolitano decided that her special-interest allies are more important than Arizona schoolchildren.

Barack Obama

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

David Gemmell

[F]ear is a great ally.

Roger Federer

This is how it will be in every match at the Open. I'm ready for the pressure, ... It's a good feeling that I have. The players, I know them all, I've beaten them all.

Josh Miley

That's just extra motivation for me. I want to prove the coaches wrong. I've beaten a couple kids who were ranked in the Brakeman, but I like the underdog role anyway. There is less pressure this way.

Alton Merkerson

As strange as it sounds, Roy wasn't motivated for those two fights. Roy is either self-motivated or he's not motivated at all. For those fights, he was bored. He was tired of pleasing other people. The second Tarver fight; he figured he'd beaten Tarver the first time when he was weak and had trouble making weight so now it would be easy. I didn't get what I should have gotten out of him in camp. And with Glen Johnson, it was the same thing. You can't make a fighter train if he doesn't want to. He might come to the gym but he won't work right while he's there.

Ben Braun

We felt if we had beaten UCLA, we would have won this thing (the regular-season title). So it's probably fitting that we're playing. I just hope we get our legs back.

Tim Churchill

It was exciting for the kids. But it was disappointing not to win. We really should have beaten that team.

Derek Johnston

We knew they were going to be up for not getting beaten 4-1 again, but we were by far the better side in the second half.

Maurice Cheeks

We knew we were coming in here playing a team that had just beaten us on our own home court. I told our guys that until we are mathematically out of this we need to keep up the effort.

Pat Summitt

Our team respects Texas. They have beaten us four in a row and beat us by 10 last year in Knoxville. We were not surprised.

Joe Murphy

We'd love to be State Champions, but we would have wanted it by winning the game. If it wasn't Hales it might have been Seneca or it might have been somebody else. You don't know who else would have been in that game and maybe we wouldn't have beaten them either.

Dave Uhrich

We did have some people place high, but for us it wasn't as much about placing as much as it was about just competing. In track you can measure how fast you run, how far you throw, or how high you jump week by week. So we were just looking at having everybody progress. Our ultimate goal is to have everyone be competitive at the Big East level.

Ben Harper

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Doug Phillips

East Liverpool gave us all we wanted tonight,

Tara Walker

This was just one of the many goals we set for ourselves this year. The first goal was to get a bye into the Big East Tournament. Making the NCAA was the next goal. But the season isn't over. There is a lot more to be done.

Michele Hiester

Western Pennsylvania is showing signs of job growth but it isn't growing as quickly as what we're seeing in the eastern half of the state.

N. T. Wright

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

Jim Elliot

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

Christina Rossetti

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

James Glassman

Most of the (economic) numbers have been decent, but people just can't have a positive view on the economic trends til they can see the other side of these Middle East developments.

Zahi Hawass

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

Elliott Abrams

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Anthony Sims

It's a lot better than a loss. Van Buren is a great team, even better than last year. But we played solid all-around. I think the forces were with us tonight.

Tasha Alexander

When you have a child, it forces you to take stock of what you're doing with your life.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Ashley Watkins

North's got two players that are hard to guard man-to-man, so we got in that zone. It was working, so we stayed there.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

David Boswell

We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top priorities.

Scott Walker

They had to pull them straight down, put the mouth guard in and lock it in there.

Richard Thurin

We've got more size than they do, but they have the quickest guards in the area. They will be a challenge.

Joe Girardi

We'll just have to talk about it. You have to guard against, first and foremost, injuries to your starting pitchers. They're the hardest guys to replace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Mick Fleming

We got it to a manageable margin near the end of the half once we got out of the shock mode. But Trinity really cranked up the defense. We're just not strong at the guard position and they (Trinity) just overplay so strongly. It was difficult.

John Spratt

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Pam Murphy

We literally taste every homemade product on our line every day. It takes two hours.

Agnetha Faltskog

I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

Brittany Bowe

There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there.

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Leon Panetta

The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,

Paul Wolfowitz

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Marty Meehan

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Pope Francis

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

Pope Benedict XVI

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

Mick Jagger

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

Ray Charles

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Norman Finkelstein

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

Missy Elliot

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

Ashton Kutcher

The people here are amazing - the young people here are amazing. The entrepreneurs here are incredible.

Ashton Kutcher

Sharing love and light while in Israel.

Ashton Kutcher

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Dorothy Day

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Don Henley

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Maggie Magerko

We've had Thanksgivings together, so there's a strong relationship there.

A. A. Milne

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Dalai Lama

‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

Rita Rudner

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

Thomas More

Friendship demands attention.

Candice Accola

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

Chris Matthews

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Jim Butcher

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.