Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Emilie Heymans

I think I was trying to control the first two dives too much and didn't let it go enough. My reverse dive in the fourth round was the one I was most happy with because I had struggled with it in practice.

Joanne Boyle

I think I was the first one out of the seat. I started jumping. It was out of control in the locker room. I think it took us all a couple of seconds to process it because there were only a couple of seeds left. When we all registered it was us, it was mayhem.

Maria Sharapova

I thought I played really well, ... I was in control for most of the match.

Jim Denny

You just learn patience, and you learn that some things are out of your control.

Dong Tao

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

John Cislo

Winning two road games puts us in position to control our destiny in getting a home playoff game. It would be good to get one at home.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Ezra Miller

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Trevor Moore

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

Calvin Lowry

Our heart and our fight changed. We were down that whole game. The defense decided we weren't going to let them score anymore, and once our offense started moving the ball, we really knew we had to stop those guys.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jeremy Davies

We had a few turnovers and they capitalized. I was proud of the guys we had on the floor. We put up a good battle.

Bobby Sandquist

We had a few too many fouls, but that's probably the result of it being a typical, physical CIML-type game. It was a good win for us.

Carolyn Compton

We had a few silly fouls that we'll need to get rid of if we are to step up at the next level.

Klaus Augenthaler

We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.

Royce Chadwick

We had a few more post players than they did, off the bench, that were able to take it at 'em.

Matt McCool

We had a few mistakes here and there, but it wasn't too sloppy. We had more positives than negatives and that's what we've got to have." ()

Tim Funkhouser

We had a few mistakes here and there. But for a first game you have to be pretty pleased.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Steve Pearson

The market has got itself into a far-too-dovish spot given the tone of the Fed-speak. There is potential for rate expectations to rebuild and that should support the dollar.

John Krasinski

Truly, when I say the show has given me everything, it's given me everything.

George Lucas

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

Diego Maradona

Time will tell what sort of role I could perform with the national team, if I really am given a role,

Bob Jones

They play as hard as they have to and they just have stayed steady, stayed together and have never given up,

Al Green

This is a ministry that has been given to me.

Richard Sharpstein

This is a man who has given his life to public works and public service, and it's a shame he has to be humiliated like this.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Clay Shirky

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clayton Christensen

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Henry Clay

I'd rather be right than President.

Helen Thomas

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

John Maynard Keynes

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Jodi Kantor

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Keating Holland

Americans may rally around a president when he sends troops to war but not when he sends them the bill.

Christopher Shays

This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech,

Jean Offutt

There were no surprises for us. But we're still waiting for the other two steps, which will be the president and Congress.

Alberto Gonzales

This may be the most important thing a president does.