Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Dylan Moran

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Linda McMahon

Making these operations more efficient is critical to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our proprietary product offerings,

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Bill Watkins

Seagate is excited about the opportunity to achieve greater scale, reduce supply chain costs, and leverage combined R&D efforts across a broader product set. With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Harry Reid

Second, the Bush administration must advise the Iraqi people that United States military forces will not stay indefinitely in Iraq and that it is their responsibility to achieve the broad-based and sustainable political environment essential for defeating the insurgency.

Vance Coffman

Second-quarter results are on track with our expectations. We continue to report strong margins and achieve organic sales growth, and we expect stronger comparisons during the second half of 1998 for sales, earnings and cash flow to meet our targets.

Kate Saunders

The strongest comments are from the Chinese scientists. This is not at all surprising. . . . Chinese protests against high-profile visits of the Dalai Lama are routine wherever he travels.

Mark Twain

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul

Kathy Barker

Texas High is undefeated for a reason, and I'm very proud of our girls for how tough they played them both times. We've hit the ball well the last three games after being in a slump, but their shortstop once again took away several base hits from us.

Leo Beenhakker

Thank you very much for the effort. It was a pleasing victory and we will be together again for the match against Peru in May.

Nellie Bly

Soon I was crossing the river and nearing New York. Once again I was a free girl after ten days in the mad-house on Blackwell's Island.

Jimmy Carter

Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy, ... But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?

Bobby Kielty

Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

Buddha

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again

Greg Melich

Rover's been losing money, it continues to lose money, and it will lose money again this year.

Brianna Schooley

I've seen the video and still can't believe it. I will always remember the cheering and how great it felt when I scored with 1:28 left to play. That moment will always be very special to me.

Tad Perry

I've worked carefully with our internal people to make sure we follow the open meetings laws. I believe we did in this case.

Tiger Woods

I've won four and, I tell you what, it's hard to believe really, just because it's the Masters. This is something every kid dreams of playing in, and, hopefully, one day even winning it. To have the opportunity to win four already is the thrill of the lifetime.

Mitch Lasky

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

Luke Donald

I've still got to believe that I can (win). If I play really great golf, then I've got a chance to win around here.

Amanda Crew

I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.

Turner Stevenson

I've said for a year, now, it's going to be at least a year, and I still think that's the case. No Stanley Cup handed out this year. Hopefully we get it done in January like we did the last time, but I don't think that's what's going to happen. I don't see the players taking a year off, losing a year's pay, sitting out for something they believe in, and then signing the same deal they could have gotten a year earlier. That's not going to happen.

Walter Willett

It would be a huge misinterpretation to believe that it doesn't matter what we eat to prevent heart disease and cancer.

Matti Vanhanen

It would be more correct to say that the EU is in difficulties. I am not taking issue with whether or not there are problems in the leadership ... I do not necessarily believe in an authoritarian style of leadership where democracy is concerned

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anne Rice

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

Anne Rice

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

Anne Rice

Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

Anne Rice

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Anna Friel

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anita Brookner

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Andrew Solomon

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.