Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gus Melonas

We are adjusting our operations to minimize the blockage at Birch Point. We'll try to minimize it to no more than 10 to 15 minutes.

Jim Fassel

We're not going to panic here, ... You keep trying, you just have to keep adjusting little things until we can get 'em going. There's no magic fix. I try little different things, but it still comes down to we have to go out and play and execute.

Raef LaFrentz

What's new? Adjusting to a different role. What the hell's new? You know? That's all I've got to say. What's new?

Hanna Rosin

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

Michael Dixon

Although it is a raise, what it really was, was really adjusting someone's pay grade to where it ought to be based on their duties, and I think that it's appropriate to correct those situations when possible,

Mike McConathy

They play a little bit different style of game, and I think sometimes adjusting to that is the toughest thing." ()

Chris Enge

They tell me that things are changing (in style of play), but they're handling it well. The things I'm doing, they're normal for me, but it seems to be new for the girls, but they're adjusting well.

Bob Toledo

It's not easy adjusting from running back to wide receiver. There are a lot of different skills you have to develop. The good news is that I think Smith has gotten the hang of it and can do tremendous things for us. He's got great speed, and I plan to take advantage of it.

Dave Duncan

It was a natural progression. It was good for the pitchers to know how much importance we placed on defense. We're always adjusting ... defense as well as pitching strategy.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Chinua Achebe

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Edith Wharton

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Charlie Hunnam

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

Charles M. Schulz

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

William Shakespeare

God grant us patience!

Rob Blake

Until we know exactly what took place ... that's why there's an investigation. Until you know the total facts, it's kind of difficult to talk about.

Jim Grant

Until we can get some really good rain to keep the fuels moist, it is really difficult to fight a fire.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Luiz Scolari

The performance of the entire team was good,

Joe Crocco

We are looking forward to a good week of practice, going over some things and getting ready for Jericho. That's where our entire focus is right now.

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Natasha Trethewey

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Dick Armey

Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness,

Jenny Nash

What he's done has put the entire state of Florida in jeopardy.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Guillermo Diaz

We started slow, particularly me. I just listened to the coaches, and went through it. I just kept fighting.

Darin Erstad

We've got a resilient group of guys. We're going to keep fighting. That was a tough one (Thursday), but we've turned the page and moved on.

Katie Gearlds

They got a run of their own. They didn't back down. They kept fighting.

Ramzan Kadyrov

This is useful and very effective, because returning them to peaceful life is better than fighting.

Allan Ray

They remind me of us. They didn't quit. They kept fighting. They're a tough team.

Danny Ward

(SouthWest) hit their free throws down the stretch; we didn't. But I like the way our guys kept fighting. We just made some mistakes late in the game.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't go fighting. Let's not waste all this money, because look at the kind of money that was spent in this election, which is staggering.

Katie Gearlds

We went on a run and they made a little run of their own. Give them credit, they kept fighting.

Dudley Etheridge

You have to give North Edgecombe credit; they never stopped fighting. They have some incredible shooters.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

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.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Lucio Tan

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Cass Gilbert

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Chen Guangcheng

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Larry Harris

At each position we're at least two deep,

Steve Thomas

A councillor's position is not judicial. It's emotional.

Todd Elmer

A lot of this comes on the back of year-end profit taking on what has been a successful position for the market.

Larry Brown

They were exhausted, that was one thing. And two, I didn't want to put them in that position yet.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

Chad Johnson

It's the position now, the position to play.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Ervin Santana

It's Mike's decision. Not mine. He can do whatever he wants.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Osi Umenyiora

It's all on us. We have to win. Whatever it takes.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Vince Young

Rain, snow, whatever it takes, we have to win this ballgame.

Greg Zipadelli

I've always just kind of worked on my stuff, whatever I was doing at the time, and just been wrapped up in that.