Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Shaun Rinier

I think it's a good contract. I think it's fair to both sides. I think it's affordable to the taxpayers. I don't think this contract is going to break the bank.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

Shakira

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

Sean McGowan

The only thing that is a problem at Mattel is the one thing it cannot afford to be a problem.

Janice Terry

It costs to much to have them dug up. There's a lot of people said the same thing. If they could afford to have them dug up they would be removed.

Robert Ward

There is going to be a large volume of water brought to the surface in the process. We can't afford to waste that water.

Glenn Thiel

We just have to keep winning. We can't afford any more losses, that's for sure.

Shane Pearsall

We're now able to afford to put athletes on the development circuits as we should ... create international experience earlier in their careers.

Mary Pierce

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Jack Peter

We look forward to learning the results of this year's class so we can begin the process of their induction and most importantly, begin preparing to preserve their legacies amongst the game's greatest players and contributors.

Chris Pool

When you stick out amongst 500 kids in the Alamo Dome, you're doing something right. You could see why North Carolina offered a scholarship early.

John Barry

We are all the same page, striving for the same goal. There is great team unity amongst this bunch.

Kevin Bettencourt

We were thinking, talking amongst ourselves we'd be an 11-seed, maybe a 10. It's just a great sign of respect and we're really happy to be seeded that high in the tournament.

Alistair Graham

We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emerging sense of deep hurt amongst loyalists, which arises from our decisions to reroute,

Mohammad Hanif

There is some conspiracy behind it to create disharmony amongst the Muslims.

George Curry

We have a collective failure of leadership unfortunately - there may be individuals who are the exception to the rule - amongst the bishops of the Church of England to maintain and teach orthodoxy in as clear and as gracious a manner as they should do.

David Coulter

This way, we don't waste our resources arguing amongst ourselves. We are excited we were able to work this out.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

George Dunlap

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

Tim Evans

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

Orin Kramer

It is obviously in the interest of Sovereign management to attempt to avoid a shareholder vote until after shareholders have been deluded.

Claire Ebel

We may have been the only state where something good came out of an attempt to make secret so much of the government's business.

Bernard Robertson

We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,

Alan Yamamoto

I am going to attempt to see him again.

John Kinsey

Other than the initial attempt at a rally that fell flat, it's a nothing day. I think it's just a few people trying to bottom pick, and maybe some short-selling.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Doug Pritchard

The fact that there are no demands made or timelines set is also hopeful.

Zach Woods

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Frank Bauer

Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schools should be primarily driven by demands of the marketplace and not by the demands of a potential student body.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Craig Cook

The further away from the ski hill you stay, the better the price and the accommodations.

Bruce Steinberg

A further deterioration in the labor market is inevitable.

Michael Novak

That just further underscores that this is not authorized.

Dave McAlindin

That may or may not further your goal.

James Moore

Support remains pegged at $485/oz, while moves back towards $500/oz are likely to prompt further long liquidation.

Terry Taylor

It's very encouraging that we're going to get this thing passed. We're getting further than ever before.

Tim Cossins

I want him to feel comfortable and ride this out for a while and get a little further into the season.

Tom Sykora

They were the ones who were pushing us to do more in construction supplies. We didn't want to lose our construction base. Now we have contractors from further away hearing about us and trying to hook up with us.

Anne Ward

It just kept moving further and further west,

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Olivia Culpo

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

Debbie Tower

We recognize the importance of getting the six lanes built.

Leo Mazzone

He's a solid guy, a solid pitcher. Just because he's soft-spoken doesn't mean there's not a lot of intensity there.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We matched them better physically and we matched their intensity through the whole game. Every win is big for us. We are trying to get back into the playoff race.

Catherine Young

It seems like we get a little lead and then we relax and let them back in it. We just don't have a lot of intensity right now. We need to pick that up if we want to play at a state championship level.

Larry Coyer

They were just so much quicker than we were. And that's the intensity level.

Ricky Davis

They really took the intensity to another level.

Jason Spezza

We probably didn't match their intensity early. And Ray kept us in it early.

Joe Layne

We knew they (Oneida) were going to be ready, and I think we were too. We had to match their intensity and I think we did that.

Jerry Rucker

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

Sthefany Thomas

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Otto Weininger

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Joyce Meyer

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

Paul Tournier

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

John Berryman

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

Lord Acton

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Lucian

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.