Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Mahmoud Abbas

Today is the beginning of the fishermen's journey to Jerusalem,

Dayton Duncan

I hadn't been in the car today before qualifying, and since I was jumping into the car cold, in the beginning I was just trying to get a feel for it.

Margaret Geller

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

Paula Creamer

I never really got a rhythm going from the beginning.

Jon Krakauer

I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

Brad Boyes

I'm feeling comfortable now. At the beginning of the season, I was just excited and was going on a lot of energy. But it slows down and you get into a rhythm. I know I can play in this league.

Sharon Allen

I knew at the beginning of the game we weren't ready, then they made us play at a higher level and we weren't ready again.

Jon Lipsitz

The challenge is to sort out what's holding us back at the beginning of games. We're responding at half time, responding to the adjustments we are making. We're working our tails off in the second half, getting great chances, but you cant give away the beginning of games and expect to get good results.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

Steve Kaplan

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

Don Peritz

This is certainly as grim as it gets. What makes this unusual is that we're in the middle of this devastating hurricane. So, one of our big concerns is trying to remove the bus to get the freeway clear and get traffic flowing.

Ken Sternad

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

Carol Ann Susi

I don't drive. I live in L.A., but I take the bus. I know, I'm weird!

Karen Mills

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

Gene Duffy

We tried half-day kindergarten classes and that didn't work. We tried cutting back on bus transportation costs and that didn't work.

Jacqueline Leo

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Rigo Chavez

A note went home last week letting parents know of a possible sighting of a guy who recently exposed himself to students two weeks ago. He was recently seen in the Paradise Skies neighborhood near a bus stop.

Don Meyer

A lot of things, I think, would have to go wrong in order for this widespread civil unrest to become a reality,

Linda Miller

They know a lot before they get to it. We probably have the only second-grader in the county who knew about Stonewall Jackson in the Civil War.

Renee Asher

They have done what they set out to do ... to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

Viktor Yushchenko

This decision puts Ukraine on the verge of civil conflict.

Andrew Kohut

This important question of the trade-off of civil liberties and protection is one the public takes very seriously,

Marvin Miller

They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.

Anthony Ricco

They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.

Hosni Mubarak

It's not on the threshold (of civil war). It's pretty much started.

Michael Huttner

It's not just the progressives and the Democrats but also Libertarians and moderate Republicans who feel that private rights and civil liberties are being threatened by this administration.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

John Flanagan

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Maggie Stiefvater

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

Hun Sen

The king is staying here, working here with us,

Herodotus

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.