Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Shannon Sharpe

He didn't play because he was talented. He played because he cheated the system.

Craig McDonald

It's taken a while and we can't undo the 2002 elections, but we can hold those who cheated in those elections accountable. There's some satisfaction that the criminal process is working its way out.

Cameron Diaz

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,

Corey Feldman

I've never cheated on a woman.

Robert Irwin

Nobody should be cheated just because they're motivated to sell soon.

Janet Reno

cheated the elderly, the retired, the disabled, and the unwary.

Steve Liddle

Most of these guys have never really had the opportunity to be around him. It's something that they've all been cheated on, because he's something special.

Joanne Harris

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

Bill Shuster

There is no greater responsibility placed upon myself and my colleagues than providing for a safe and secure homeland for America's citizens.

Martin Meehan

At a time when so much of the world questions our commitment to our own values, I urge my colleagues to show the American people and the world that we will defend our country but we will do so in a way that protect those rights that make it worth defending.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Todd Tiahrt

I vote in favor of protecting traditional marriage between one man and one woman today and I encourage my colleagues to vote for H.J. Res. 88.

Evan Bayh

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Susanna Phillips

The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.

Johann Rupert

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

Jim Bunning

I and my colleagues will be watching very closely, and if things unravel, we still have tough legislation we can move through Congress.

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I don't know what goes on on ships, ... I can tell you exactly what goes on on the streets of New York City. You are safe. People are nice. It is exciting. It is easy to get around. We have rooms reserved for every member of Congress and for every delegate.

Dick Durbin

I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,

Laura Castro

I'm hoping something will happen soon in Congress.

Lennart Johansson

I'll decide tomorrow after the Uefa Congress whether I will speak or not.

Bob Loevy

If the other senator from your state is in your party, you don't have to feel great pressure to speak out on every issue. They need to get their message out so that the other congressman from the other party doesn't establish his point of view.

James Klein

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

Mal Peet

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Dr. Tullman

In some ways, convincing these guys to come to Kendall - when there were days when I wondered myself what I was doing there was one of my hardest sales. It was a little like selling people tickets to the last trip on the Titanic. But they came.

Susanna Clarke

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

Theo Brunner

I'm disappointed with the way we played in the last two games, and that really was not a convincing win. That's been the story of our whole season. We've been up and down and I'm not surprised that we played like that. It just really sucks to go out that way.

Brent Faurote

It was a convincing win for Nelson. Irwin and Scherer pretty much dominated. All three have a good shot at making the finals if they wrestle well.

Lord Byron

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

John Garfield

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

Leonard Mlodinow

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Matthias Egger

no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Marcus Williams

I thought we were going to win. We were in the same situation to Friday night. We just didn't follow through.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Doug Kramer

We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without necessities.

Chad Campbell

I was able to follow in his footsteps.

Jimmy Spencer

He just hit me in the back bumper. When you're up in the top five, you better respect your competitors, 'cause it'll come back to haunt you.

Walter de La Mare

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Ted Ritter

It haunted him for the rest of his life. And he took it to his grave.

Fadel Gheit

High oil prices will come and haunt us.

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Lisa Kleypas

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Billy Donovan

I don't know about him for next game. It's inside his lip. He's probably going to have to get it stitched up.

Tom Funk

If you want to witness what's going on inside the mind of Robert, take a look at his rig, and then take a look at it in a year, because it'll be better.

Brian Boitano

If you are on the inside of skating, you sort of understand it. But not quite.

P. J. O'Rourke

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

Seth MacFarlane

I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?

Tony Judt

I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

Evgeni Plushenko

I have something inside me. I like to work and I also like to compete.

Salman Rushdie

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Naomi Wolf

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

James Fallows

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

Kim Harrison

Inside Junior’s it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly,

Publilius Syrus

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Jacques Chirac

There is still much to be done in the way of disarmament by peaceful means,

Donald Trump

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

William McKinley

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

William James

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

William James

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

John Skalko

At this stage of the game, many of the questions are not answerable.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Lee Powell

For me it raised a lot of questions,

Bill Cubit

For Greg, there was questions about his speed but he solved that at the combine.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Robin Williams

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.