Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Meyer

We started off with losses to two very good football teams, but we told the boys, 'One game at a time,' and that's the way we're approaching it. They're getting better every week. Our kids work really had and they absorb everything we're trying to teach them. I'm probably the happiest 2-2 coach in the state of Michigan.

Shawn Campbell

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Rodrigo Rato

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

Tom DeLay

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

Neneh Cherry

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

Moshe Sharett

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

Proverb Proverbs

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Matt Griffin

We're going to continue to put a lot on them mentally and see how they absorb it and how they react on the field.

Tom Hines

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Henry Hyde

as we enact these reforms, we must exercise some care in avoiding unforeseen consequences.

Washington Post

As President Bush prepares to visit India, the question is whether he can cement the improvement in US-India ties while avoiding negative spill-over effects.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Tom Ridge

They tell us that avoiding panic and confusion in a crisis helps them do their jobs better. So when you protect yourself, you're protecting your community, and it's one less concern that the first responders have at the time of an incident,

Ram Kumar

It started as a quiet and calm demonstration as we had promised for the sake of avoiding any hassles for the innocent bystanders but the police turned it into violence.

Todd Cherry

The region is declining as part of the state's overall labor market.

Matthew Ellis

As we learned in Economics 101, a declining manufacturing sector is part of the normal process as an economy develops.

Gore Vidal

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Ted Hamer

The number of students drive the budget. When you start having declining enrollment, it takes a while to filter through before you can start reducing costs.

David Goss

Prices have gone up this summer, instead of declining as they typically have done during the warmer months; they are at levels twice as high as a year ago,

Ani Difranco

People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind

Mark Mandel

Department stores are struggling with declining market share and that's why we're likely to see future consolidation in this group.

Anthony Chan

A declining deficit may be signaling a slight loss of economic growth momentum.

Josh Bernoff

Stores will close. It's already happening. Being a music store by itself is a declining business.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Mark Wilson

We're looking for improvement every meet from them. If they can do that - keep improving - eventually we'll get our points there.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

Alan Hovhaness

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Jeff Neubauer

We are a team looking for our identity right now.

Carlos Ghosn

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Bill Ayers

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.

Camille Paglia

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

Elizabeth Banks

I got Twitter identity theft.

M.I.A.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Steve Camarota

Any suggestion that immigrants and natives do fundamentally different kinds of work is just silly.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

Ted Cruz

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Brad Baldia

This is a very important day for all immigrants and all Americans.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Dusty Baker

It seems like we have trouble keeping them in the ballpark. If we could keep them in the ballpark, it'd be different.

John Jones

A lot of people are in harm's way right now. Your product is keeping them safe.

Don Briggs

They have a lot of speed. We had trouble keeping up with them.

Angie Dickinson

They were larger than life all the time. That was no act.

John Callahan

This is 10 times worse than New York City. The devastation is in a much larger area,

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Jeff House

It puts us on par with much larger communities. It moves us to a different level.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Tim Curry

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Brendan McDermott

Avalanches are going to be much larger than most people have ever seen.

Carol Lewis

People really seem to like the larger facility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Martin Reynolds

For Dell and IBM, the HP-Compaq merger is a win,

Ray Soudah

The year 2005 was one of record profits. So to talk of merger pressure, you can only do so you when talking about the long-term strategy. Not if you talk about it on a short-term basis.

Gigi Sohn

This merger makes a net neutrality requirement all the more urgent.

James Rogers

This merger is all about shaping our future.

Michael Schneider

This is the type of merger that we've seen in the past and that we're going to see more of in the future.

Jim Valentine

These mergers are messy. They take a long time to do. That's why you don't want to own that name during a deal.

Earl Comstock

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

Mark Davis

The one question that comes to our mind is how will the merger be viewed by rail shippers overall,

Herbert Lau

Telecom stocks are being buoyed by merger and acquisition news overseas.

John Roberts

It is settled as a precedent of the court,

Dror Etkes

This is a precedent, but unless there is a continuation it will remain a precedent without any context.

Bruce Fuller

The way to stop something like this is by setting the precedent of prosecution.

Don Cox

There's no precedent for doing what they did.

Claude Debussy

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

William Wise

It is inappropriate and without precedent to second-guess a pipeline's day-to-day operations,

Nancy Collins

Then, we have to have one or two (patients) before we get a Medicaid visit to get our Medicaid license, ... Everything is establishing a precedent as we go.

James Madison

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

Frank Blake

We voted for you to vote on these things. This will set a precedent because anything that's done once can be done again.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Ansyaad Mbai

The modus operandi is very similar to the previous bombings.

Ali Kerimli

even all the previous falsifications were not enough for them to win.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

Jim Oberweis

I stand here with no involvement with any previous administration. Judy's been in Springfield for 25 years.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Norv Turner

It's not in the same spot as before. They don't know if it's torn, if it's a sprain or strain, or whatever that is.

Matt Painter

There's a spot for him on our team, but we've got to make some strides in practice.

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Charles Biderman

Sometimes it doesn't work as spot on as we would like, ... Nothing has worked all the time, and if it did, it wouldn't, because everyone would be doing it.

Josh Paul

It was very, very disappointing for us. Our guys, especially Escobar, battled to get to that spot (and) got the out, so it's very frustrating it wasn't called the right way.

Steven Wright

I spilled Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stedman Graham

How can I go out there and create value?

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Michael Jordan

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

George Carlin

Where do we get our values from?

Herb Brooks

You're only as good as your values.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.