Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Eric Sahl

While we are working hard to negotiate a fair contract with Lifetime Television, we must also protect our customers from outrageous rate increases. We appreciate the relationship we have had with Lifetime over the past 10 years and we hope they will reconsider their position and return their channels to our customers.

Stephanie Lee

While we appreciate that the president was very respectful throughout the meeting, we feel like he needs to get to know our program a lot more before he can make a well-educated decision and that to rush it would be unjust and uninformed.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Michael Alexander

The name change is in the best interest of our corporation. We want to present a new image for the company as we continue to grow in the trucking and logistics business. We believe that the current name presents a limiting impression of the nature of our business.

Travis Parker

Once we got one stop, two stops, we started getting into it. Every time we stopped them on defense, I believe we got a basket.

Ma Shang

Actually, China is not very satisfied with OPEC. I believe in these talks OPEC will negotiate with China about more investments in the future.

Crystal Lowe

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.

Jeff Gladstein

The more people believe the Fed is taking interest rates to 5 percent the more they are buying dollars. People are trading interest rates.

Terry Madonna

Do you want to trust and like the president--is that more important--or do you believe you have to vote for Gore to keep the peace and prosperity we've had the last eight years?

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Alex Smith

It feels great to get my first (touchdown pass), no matter where it was, but it was great to get it here. Obviously, a lot of credit goes to the other guys, the receivers and especially the guys up front. Things are going to come together. All we need to do is keep working hard. Being young, I'm continuing to learn and make strides every week.

Yis Gigay

In the middle of my first year I decided that I wanted to open up a Middle Eastern restaurant instead of continuing to study.

Colin Walker

There will be continuing interest in our resources -- there's just no question about it.

Robert Schulz

They're continuing to make progress. So far we're not predicting a deal won't get done.

Glenn Greenwald

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced.

Kurt Barnard

Penney is continuing a three- or four-year downfall,

Alex Beuzelin

Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tightening campaign,

Eric Shanteau

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Eric Esch

I've never had a fixed fight that I know of.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Cloris Leachman

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Edward Snowden

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Shay Doron

Nothing is guaranteed in basketball. You never know in sports. We could lose in the first round next year, so we can't take this for granted. We have to do everything in our power to win this national championship now.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jack Roush

Martin said yesterday. ''I will give anything I can to repay that. I'm going to do whatever I can to help, with one limitation: It's only on the 6.

Jason Schwartzman

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

Paolo Ferri

When Dick Martin said he wanted to cooperate, I thanked him.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Anne Lamott

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Rick Riordan

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Robert A. Heinlein

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

Robert A. Heinlein

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

Ron Kaufman

Customers pay a price, but they remember the value.

Roger Stone

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Gary Bartlett

Turnout is not anything to be proud of this year.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Bernie Sanders

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

Travis Gray

This year has been great. I'm proud of these guys. I feel like I'm part of the team.

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Anna Held

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Booker T. Washington

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Albert Einstein

The only race I know is the human one.

Robert Frost

Ants are a curious race

Tony Bennett

Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Dalai Lama

The time has come to think more wisely, hasn't it?

Todd Burns

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Usain Bolt

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Shonda Rhimes

I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.

Eydie Gorme

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Kurt Voss

I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.

Jeff Hawkins

This is a better way for us to keep track

Abraham Lincoln

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Douglas MacArthur

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Sun Tzu

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

Sun Tzu

It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see the outward aspects, none understands the way in which I have created victory.

Robert Burns

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

Rand Paul

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

Norman Finkelstein

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.