Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Terry

We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves in the huddle. We knew we hadn't played good 'D' at all, and for three quarters there we played lock-down, solid defense. That was huge, it was big for our confidence. That was our mission and our goal going into this trip, to win each game, and we did that.

David Aebischer

I don't know if I touched it, but I knew he was pretty shifty, so I kind of challenged him a little bit. Then I poke-checked and saw he was going to lose the handle on it. I don't think he expected that from me.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Dick Isaacson

We have some juniors on this team and I challenged them this week. I wanted them to use this game to not only prepare for the rest of this season but next season too.

Steve Alford

I challenged Bru as much as I have ever challenged him at halftime. A first team all-league choice doesn't come in at the half with no rebounds and no field goals. He responded.

Mike Daley

He wasn't one to write a check and forget about it. He always challenged me with long-term strategic planning, what would make an Aquinas education excellent.

Ed Hooi

He had no fear and he took the shots and drilled them. In life, you are going to be challenged and when you respond like he did, you are going to be a champion.

Misha Collins

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Catherine Asaro

The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Charli Thorne

This team is making me look good right now. We had no choice. We had no margin of error and, honestly, because we had seen everybody. We saw what they had, and we saw what we had, and we knew we were the better team.

Andrew Benson

You felt you had no choice but to shoot her in the face?

Henri Nouwen

.....every time there are losses there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper

Dan Quinn

There's no crowd, and we had our choice of sites,

Eric Schmidt

We simply don't have a choice but to follow the law.

Lisa Uphoff

We talked about our options . . . It was clear that teachers and staff in this district felt we have no other choice but to go on strike if we can't reach a fair settlement. We have never been on strike. This was not an easy decision but one we felt we had to make.

John Shadegg

We have to deal with access, affordability and choice in order to get quality.

Todd Harris

The public will be given a stark choice,

Jeff Allen

I can't even get in to watch it. I have been wanting to. But, it's a closed debate.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Ed Bailey

We may have actually closed it early than it needed to be, but we picked a date that we knew would not be interrupted. We planned events all the way through to the end with a large plan for the last run up to the closing.

Bo Ryan

It's kind of like the free throws we've given up. We've lost a couple games because (against) Michigan and Northwestern, they (didn't) miss a free throw down the stretch. We just closed out (a victory) the same way.

Jonathan Powell

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Sinead O'Connor

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Ole Miss

We played well on Monday, ... I was not as pleased with the way we closed out the tournament, but we are still trying to learn how to compete. I have seen some improvement so that is encouraging.

Peter Boulware

With Ted, I don't think we were headed in the right direction. With Brian, it seems like we are. I was relieved; it closed the door on that.

Kathlyn McClain

We said we couldn't be complacent. We were letting them (Sandburg) do whatever they wanted. We just had to step up the 'D.' We closed down their shooters and wouldn't let them get in the post.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Bernhard von Bulow

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Aristotle

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Doris Lessing

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

e. e. cummings

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Adolf Hitler

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated,

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Carl von Clausewitz

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit....

Carl von Clausewitz

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Carl Sandburg

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Calvin Coolidge

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!

Bryant H. McGill

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.