Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hanan Ashrawi

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

Mary Coleman

We accepted full responsibility for the wrongdoing that occurred, and we felt that the loss of scholarships, extended probation, and other penalties imposed by the NCAA were an appropriately severe response to the violations. Our appeal was focused on the additional postseason ban, because we believed it fell disproportionately on the current, innocent players and coaches.

Megan Vrabel

We accepted coach Dixon so quickly. The team is so close. We've trusted coach Dixon.

Ehud Barak

We accepted American ideas that each side will examine its own activities, ... that our security teams will sit together to clarify what happened, and then we'll sit with the American partners to see what happened and to try and make sure that better coordination will be in the future and that such events could not be repeated in the future.

Jack O'Connell

We accepted a higher proportion of English-learner students than any other state in the country, ... Our exclusion rate of English learners was 12%, while Texas' exclusion rate was 37.5% and New York's was 29%.

Edmund Stoiber

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

James Meeks

We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

Barry Hyman

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

Steve Pederson

We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also recognize that any kind of gesture is not in character either with coach Callahan or our program.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Dan Scott

We've actually got a mail-order pharmacy looking at us. They've basically told us, if we stay at 2 -to-1, they're not coming.

Jake Geller

We're inclusive of people with all abilities. We don't separate the disabled people from the able body people. Because once you're in the boat and you're with other people, you're basically on the same level as everyone else in the boat.

Cindy Fushimi

We spent part of our practice the other day talking to the girls about this, how January's an important month because it's packed full of events. This is the month where we are trying out new skills and basically upgrading the difficulty. You find out what is working, what's not working and what you need to work on still for February.

Louie Gohmert

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Bradley Horowitz

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Earl Calloway

We've all been saying it and that's what we want to do. Everybody in the locker room, the coaches, coach, everyone, we all have the same goal and that's to find a way to finish strong in the Big Ten and still get in the NCAA Tournament.

Rocky Long

We struggled with Texas Tech's offense, and everybody has, because they spread you sideline to sideline. It's tough to defend.

London Fletcher

We stress everybody staying in their gap responsibility, ... and also getting off blocks. We have to do a better job of disengaging from blocks.

John Adams

We still print out all our job tickets, even though it?s all online. Everybody needs print, from restaurants to the mechanic down the street.

Bob Hilmer

We're in position to be competitive for the next few years. But we know it won't be easy. We know we will be a target for everybody else.

Randy Perkins

We started off slow, but this is no one-man team. Everybody can do a little of everything.

Manny Diaz

We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we've come a long way and we're starting to play as a team. I'm very proud of them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Alan Moore

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Al Pacino

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

Akhil Sharma

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Akshay Kumar

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Andy Wachowski

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

Phil Pergola

They're putting turf in and that's what made this work. And, from what I understand, they offered us the use of their facility.

Peter Mandelson

offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist.

George Bernard Shaw

I've been offered titles, but I think they get one into disreputable company.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Gerald Richman

And there was a third bidder who would have offered even more.

Abhishek Bachchan

I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

Kristin Hasson

We're going through rebirth right now. And the school has offered a lot of support.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Carol Majeske

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.

Joe Gibbs

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

Michael Irvin

It's a situation that is not as it seemed.

Janice Kruger

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are different, and those things keep a real special situation here every year.

Bobby Bowden

They need to be in a game-like situation and play as a unit and see how they respond. Because you can't do it much in the fall.

George Hudson

It's more about the situation that the team will be in,

Kelly Holcomb

It's not my decision. You're competitive. You want to play. But you also have to know the situation and I do.

Shlomo Dror

They are going because they want to leave. The situation is dangerous.