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.

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.

Sol Campbell

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

George Arzt

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

Dave Loos

I think the big thing about Chuck is he has done this all behind the scenes with very little fanfare. Yet all of these athletes could not have achieved any of their goals without him and the people that work for him.

John Grady

There is a fair degree of skepticism in the industry given some of the past failures. But we are selling services to very knowledgeable customers who are looking for services that meet or exceed their expectations in terms of quality and service levels. We are working quietly with many of those providers to achieve and surpass the metrics that they set and expect.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a difficult mission ahead -- to build our state, to achieve security for our people, to provide a good life for our people, to give our prisoners freedom, our fugitives a life in dignity, to reach our goal of an independent state,

Saleh Mutlak

There is no freedom in Iraq ... to achieve your aims by telling people what you want,

Bob Young

The purpose of these changes is to focus more resources to support the football team. Our goal as an organization is to improve each and every day. These changes reflect that goal and stay true to our long-term vision for the football club and our fans, namely to achieve excellence in everything we do.

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

John Moody

Having obtained control of the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem railroads, Commodore Vanderbilt now decided in the summer of 1867 to go after the Erie, of which Drew was nominally in possession, although no one knew when he owned a majority of the stock or when he was temporarily short of it.

Bill Richardson

Here was the government putting this skinny 60-year-old guy into solitary confinement for nearly a year. I have come to realize that it was wrong and I should have spoken out more, although I did try to influence the Justice Department on their incarceration of Lee.

Kevin Bannon

I think, it's going to be very, very hard to get people seriously interested in energy stocks, although you never can say never on Wall Street, ... We would prefer to own some of the drillers, because with oil prices at the this level, it's going to encourage anybody, any country anywhere who might have some oil to look for it. And that will be good for the drillers. We would rather own those than the oil companies themselves.

M. Wolfe

I think it's highly significant that he is showing here. Although it sounds unpatriotic to say this, when a European big name appears here, and he is arguably the greatest designer of our time, it makes us seem like we are big league players and not some small colony. Karl Lagerfeld will be the hottest ticket in town.

Mark Dyer

It is a licensing deal. Although I wouldn't call this a standard licensing deal.

Haruhiko Kuroda

I think the Japanese economy has recovered and it can continue to grow by two to three percent (annually) in the next several years, although such growth is not so big compared with China or India.

Kevin Wright

What most people are, especially now, experiencing and wanting is a balance between traditional sightseeing and faith based travel. So when they go to Italy, although they want to see the Vatican, they want to experience some nice Italian meals.

Ken Trump

Kids are much more tech savvy than many adults anyway. The challenge is how do we narrow the gap between the two.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Doug Hattaway

He is trying to define his own vision for all the voters, and that can be a tough challenge for a sitting vice president. In a way the vice president actually has more work to do in introducing himself.

Maajid Nawaz

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Bill Doba

He's a good receiver. He's tall (6-3), 210 pounds and runs well. It will be a real challenge for our defense.

Antoine Winfield

He's a leader out there on the field. His team is going to go how he goes. If he's having a good game, they're high and he's going to pack the house there every night. He's a real challenge for us.

Paul Whitworth

He saw love as a radical challenge to the identity of men and women, ... His popularity on the screen is no accident: His take on sexuality, gender and love seems to speak to the way we see ourselves at the end of the 20th century.

Spencer Mayfield

He's a weapon. As the season went on, we started to do more and more things for him. We had to be convinced this wasn't a fad. But without him we wouldn't have 15 wins or be in a position to challenge Mount Vernon.

John Connolly

It is a big challenge for us, there is no doubt about that,

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Otto Wallach

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Marlene Rosenberg

To us, food is not an essential issue. There are more important issues, like loving your neighbor as yourself and loving God with all your heart.

Peter Fisher

They gave so much to Liverpool. The exhibition will tell the essential story of the port and the people who made it great.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

Steve Frady

Public safety is essential for a community's quality of life, and it's one of the first things people look at in judging a city.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

David Marsh

Steve was our top performer at this meet. He is a major reason we were able to win this championship.

Carlos Fernandez

The administration is taking utilities very seriously. Fortunately, we haven't had any major catastrophes.

Mark Stern

There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.

Michael Johnson

On average, 44.73 isn't going to win you a lot of major titles. So he'll need to improve, but that is quite probable.

Dusty Baker

It's not a very pleasant situation, but it's here and it's real. This is a major blow. We'll play for him and play for us.

Rick Rubin

It's really starting to stick. If nothing else, it's a major distraction for management.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Richard M. Nixon

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Ron Perlman

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Chris Benz

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Robert De Niro

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Tupac Shakur

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Tracy Chevalier

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Vivien Leigh

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

Salman Rushdie

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Kelley Armstrong

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

Miguel

What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called Thanks for CBS.

Kim Wilde

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

Kathleen Norris

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Pat Sajak

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

P. D. James

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Marya Hornbacher

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Richelle Mead

You were totally unprepared for her.” “That's for damned sure.

Rebecca West

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Woodrow Wilson

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.