Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McCullers

Things sure have changed in the last year. It has been a challenging year, but we are professionals and need to accept responsibility." ()

John Carlock

They are all baseball oriented. You can tell they have played baseball awhile. Now when you step here and are playing 11th and 12th graders you're going to (have some losses). They seem to accept it, but they also know every game they play they should be in the game.

Mike Silver

The whole thing is a scam. Boxing fans are the dumbest fans in the world to accept it. The titles only have meaning because people say they do. The emperor has no clothes. The sanctioning bodies and their titles are fraudulent.

Tiger Woods

The winds just came up out of nowhere in the afternoon. It's playing very difficult. But you just have to accept the consequences and move on.

Jill Robinson

They accept you at face value, A person feels wanted, respected, dignified and cared for.

Glenn Greenwald

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

Benjamin Brafman

This is a sad day, because, to be perfectly honest, I think one of the truly great and extraordinary men of this generation has just admitted to criminal conduct. From the very beginning of this case, Mr. Kushner has wanted to accept responsibility for his criminal conduct.

David Boies

This is going to be resolved by the Florida Supreme Court promptly, and what I think is that will be the end of the matter. I think whoever wins in the Florida Supreme Court will accept that.

Lynn Lawrance

This is not a time for pride. Allow yourself to accept help from others to help you get back on your feet. Help can come from many places, such as governmental and nonprofit agencies, friends, family, neighbors, churches, your employer and co-workers, even strangers.

Michael Petrillo

The deal was done on a handshake. They've been friends for over 30 years and they both agreed on everything.

Sas Bernini

We agreed to be one of the sponsors. I'm really sure that a lot of people from the Russian community will attend this event.

Steve Conway

Everyone in the state has agreed that's the way it is.

Drew Rosenhaus

Nothing was intentional ever. He agreed with the statement. He did not come out and try and offend anyone. There was no intent, there was no malicious intent.

Scott Reed

It's basically the same offer we had previously, but we were able to also put in a signing bonus of $250 and agreed in years two and three to split any potential increases in health cares.

Richard Katz

It's a mutual agreement to terminate. We haven't resigned. We're not resigning the job. We're not being terminated without cause. We've agreed to terminate,

Keith Wyness

The two clubs have been speaking over the weekend and have agreed a deal. We have now given permission to Marcus to travel to London to discuss personal terms.

Randy Hendricks

There is no need to talk to anyone unless and until Roger decides to play. He has indicated to me that he does not intend to play in April or May. We agreed to review everything in mid-May.

Tom Richardson

We're not helped by the regulations that we the counties have all agreed that we cannot replace someone once registered if they have an injury.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Timothy Ghriskey

There have been few negative pre-announcements and a number of positive ones, ... Third-quarter earnings should be strong and that should continue to support the stock market. But there will always be pullbacks and volatility. There's always the potential for people to sell the news and you may see that in the short term.

Mark Jensen

We are struggling offensively right now, but this group is determined to turn it around. Regardless of the struggles, they continue to work hard to get better. I am proud of the fact that they won't give up. It shows what they are made of.

Thomas Carr

We are strong, we are well prepared...to continue to meet the needs of Montgomery County.

Elie Wiesel

We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.

Lewis Booth

We are going to do what we said we would do and continue to work on the cost side.

John MacPhee

We are going to continue moving forward with implementing the remediation plan,

Julian Luna

We are going to continue at the level that we started. If anything, the testing will probably increase once we determine if the pre-race or post-race method is better.

Angela Kohler

We have felt for a long time that the stock is worth $30 or better and continue to think that.

Michael Sim

I had a lot of opportunities. I was pretty disappointed when I found out it was out of bounds. I just hit a terrible shot, but that is life.

Joe King

If you can think of it, we've found it.

Frank Simonis

If we want a unified standard, it has to be better than the sum of the parts. We would like to find something that's better in the other standard than ours, but we haven't found it.

William Blake

I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three.

Mark Branger

I look at it as a big game. We are not the same team as last year. This is a new group and we haven't found ourselves yet. We're learning new roles. I don't think we've played real well yet.

Cesar Romero

I'll tell you something not for public consumption in my lifetime. That's how I found out. That I was different. While dancing. You understand?

Mary Tavenner

I know Helen would be proud, using her as a springboard for the voices of future poets. She was a pen in the hand of God. She had a natural talent and found the proper marketplace to sell her wares. And I know we have talented and gifted writers in this community.

Sidney Crosby

I just had to find a way to get open and he found a way to put it right on my tape,

Les Morris

I just found that out last week. It was not a good situation at all.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Alexander Hamilton

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

Alexander Hamilton

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Alexander Hamilton

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

Alexander Hamilton

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Harold MacMillan

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

Gregory Bateson

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Ingrid Newkirk

It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Atharva Veda

Live together in Love; live in Peace; and live in Service.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Marquis

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

Dalai Lama

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work...

Dolly Parton

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Dolly Parton

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Anderson Cooper

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.