Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Joe Biddy

The boys came as a shock. It was an absolute shock.

George Gregan

The big thing is they give a big boost of raw energy and enthusiasm and ? you just see the absolute excitement and joy of being part of the national team and it just reinforces to everyone the special sort of place we're in,

Stephen Baker

At some point, absolute price is an issue.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Bubba Cunningham

Ball State makes it an absolute priority to comply with all NCAA rules, and our student-athletes understand we take this very seriously. Our primary focus right now is ensuring that students going into competition are eligible to play.

Keith Powell

Athol Fugard is one of my all-time favorite playwrights. It is an absolute honor that he would grant us the rights to Exits and Entrances ahead of many other more established theatre companies. In my mind, the best way to return this compliment is to devote our entire season to him. I see The Island as sort of a companion piece.

Steve Courson

Athletes didn't invent this stuff. We opened Pandora's box. We're still trying to figure out how to close it. It's bottomless. It's impossible to eliminate them. Let's accept it's inevitable. But don't put athletes on a moral pedestal when it's an absolute joke. Don't speak of purity and ideals. There's too much money invested in performance.

Jim Scherr

That was absolutely improper and something we have taken great measures to have our athletes not do,

Kevin Lisk

The boys are probably slightly better, but the girls could go to state, too. There's only three or four teams ahead of us in the sectional.

Tim Riley

As I ponder this particular change order, I think in terms of other things that stand before us in (the way of) improvements, such as safety features and enhancing our schools with technology. I just don't feel like the price has come down far enough for us to go ahead with it,

Martin Brodeur

Definitely, it would be nice. That's what I'm planning to do. ... It's not something I'm going to regret all of my life. But it's going to be nice if we're able to do it. We know there's a lot of work ahead of us to get it done.

Heather Ferguson

Coach Coyne has told up to keep our heads up, because there is still the season ahead of us, and we need to get ready to make an impact on the tournament. We need to buckle down and concentrate on the next three games.

Terrence Royal

The sky's the limit for the young guys. I know there's nothing but greater things ahead for those guys.

Art Hogan

The second quarter is lining up to be another good quarter but people are looking ahead to the third and fourth quarters. Barring any major upsets on the earnings calendar I'd say the market is pretty range bound.

Dave Tapps

The students who go through this program are well ahead of the game. I see districts who have the resources to get these and don't, and that just doesn't make sense.

Rob Parish

The teams ahead of them in the poll were not there, so they know they have their work cut out of them. They have two months of hard work ahead of them. They can't relax, and they aren't going to be content with their performance (Thursday).

Karen Monez

The team is coming back from the break with a positive, refreshed outlook. We are ready to take on the challenges that lay ahead in the upcoming competitions.

Harriet Stowe

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Bible Bible

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Ian Lowe

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Denise Layne

Any leader who does not do this will totally burn out, and once they've burned out, you can't get them back. A smart leader's one who knows when to take a deep breath.

John Byers

Are the people who are getting tax credits still burning their fields? ... There's nothing in statute that says they couldn't.

Roland Mesnier

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

Rusty Smith

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

Russ Feingold

The Supreme Court's decision to review the Vermont and Wisconsin cases means that the issue of campaign finance reform will be on the front burner for the court in the months ahead,

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Samuel Daniel

Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Mary Curtis

People say, hey, I'm not going to let this happen, I'm going to report this case I suspect.

Cem Dinc

People see that I'm 6-10 and they automatically expect me to play inside, but that's not necessarily the case with me. I can run, I can jump and I can shoot. I think I can give Indiana a different dimension.

Randeep Hooda

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

Jamie Selway

People perceived that as a downgrade. She'd made a good case to investors for the exchange.

Sam Miller

Office is not in this case yet, but it could be in the next case.

Jason Stanford

Of course the Texas Residential Construction Commission is a case study in corruption. The Comptroller doesn't have to misuse her state office to prove that.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Linda Johnson

Devastation doesn't just go away. There needs to be a period of time and a long-term relationship to have an effect on a crisis.

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

Danton Cole

Saturday is just one of those games you have to forget about. You can't let that effect your performance in your next game. That's something we've been doing better of late.

Aaron Johnson

'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Brian Kenny

I've seen the effect of this on my daughter. I just know this is working at the ground floor level.

Tony Travers

It would be very surprising if the events of the last week had no effect on how people vote.

Tom Bennett

The short-term effect (on European tobacco stocks) will be seriously negative.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Mike Love

That's what the law says, but whether they can get it or not, it's going to be a stretch.

Dwight Howard

That should come under the state's price-gouging law.

Vincent Creel

You're probably going to see martial law before too long.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Kris Draper

Cujo is the reason we won the game,