Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Luis Aragones

On paper they are inferior to us so our aim is to score as many goals as possible so that we don't lose out to our rivals on goal difference.

Gareth Thomas

I didn't know how it was going to go. Carrying on playing means the swelling is going up and down. It could have gone in the first five minutes or the warm-up. Whatever happened I had to play before the England game. My next aim is to get the strapping off, because it's holding my knee in place and is so tight I can't run tidy with it. It will take more than this to stop me playing.

Donna Newman

Most of the talking was done by me. My aim was simply to educate him.

Roger Collis

One should aim for state of the art travel, which is about getting the best value for travel, not the best price,

Larry Lamb

One must ... aim to stimulate, educate, coax, coerce, cajole shock when necessary but, above, all to entertain. No newspaper, and no newspaperman, should ever be ashamed to entertain.

Tzipi Livni

One can assume the lifestyle of the Palestinians will change even though this is not the aim of the government.

Roman Hamrlik

I scored on some lucky shots tonight, that's all I can say. I just aim at the net and they went through. We are happy to get the two points. That's all that matters.

Martha Thomas

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Tim Evans

Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher were not all that strong to begin with.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Joan Rivers

Once you begin to believe there is help ""out there,"" you will know it to be true.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Dr. Kryger

This problem often begins in people when they're in their mid-teens.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Geno Auriemma

The new contract is a reflection of the university's commitment to me and my commitment to the university.

Ed Louder

After that we made a commitment that we would be in every game we played.

Vassar College

It's really, really inspiring to listen to these young people. They not only have an idealistic commitment, but an openness, even kindness, toward the community that I didn't expect.

Nobutaka Machimura

It shows our commitment and will to contribute to world peace, but it is true that many Japanese people and members of the Japanese Diet (parliament) feel frustrated about this fact,

Joe Kalinowski

It shows a commitment from local community and local legislators to support high-tech companies. We're all very pleased to see it pass.

Debra Conner

It's hard to find volunteers who'll give five or six hours a week. Their commitment level is unbelievable.

Connie Christopher

It's a very large commitment on them their parents and me.

Publilius Syrus

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

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.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

Julio Franco

Why not? They signed me here for two years.

Desmond Tutu

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Angelina Jolie

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

Thomas Kyd

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Tacitus

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

Michael Haneke

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Louis L'Amour

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Margaret Millar

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

George Orwell

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

George Carlin

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.