Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seve Ballesteros

As a player and captain, these are unforgettable moments where you are competing for your team-mates, your country and for the people of your continent.

Peter Cohan

Product managers are in two forms of competition. They're competing with other vendors, but they're also often competing for share of mind with other product managers.

Jeff Davidson

Ours is the most time-pressed generation in history by virtue of the number of things competing for our attention.

Greg Brockbank

People get re-elected to office all the time, even while they're considering another office. I have no competing allegiance.

Stephen O'Grady

Office 12 is a very, very nice package. If they were support ODF, they'd do very well just competing on technical merits of applications. It's very nice package. That's the shame. It doesn't have to be an anti-Microsoft thing,

Mario Perez

Competing will be the 'prize' for good grades.

Charlotte Casiraghi

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

Paul Simpson

Competing at this level is an honour. The skills we practice for these events are those we use in daily emergency responses.

Jerry Sloan

Anything can happen in this business. We're competing and we're going to fight through to the end.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Rod Thorn

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

John G. D. Clark

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Karen Wagner

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

Anne Stevens

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Mike Adras

I've seen him do it a number of times.

Derek Kool

I've talked to a number of NHL stars, actually.

Keith Whyte

This is not a silver bullet. It would need to be done in combination with a number of therapies.

Nell Minow

This could go any number of ways ? it could be weeks before this is over.

John Reed

That tower is owned by Southwest Communications and we have been unable to get a phone number that works for Southwest Communications.

Maria Sharapova

That's why I play tennis, because I want to be number one, not because I want to be number 10, ... If you don't want to be number one in the world, then there is no reason for you even to start.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Marilynne Robinson

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

John Stuart Mill

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

John Ruskin

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.