Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Dominic Kinnear

More than likely we're looking to balance it out again.

Park Seung

Monetary policy will be based on seeking a balance between growth and stability.

Charlotte Ross

My guess is there are more women in the TV industry then there are on Wall Street. But it's that same idea of having to play in a man's world and finding that balance without being always stereotyped as a bitch.

Jewel

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

Kip Petersen

My housing stock is just about maxed out. There are a couple of homes that are very, very expensive, in the $200,000 to $300,000-plus range, with the balance being very old structures that need complete renovation.

Walter Wada

Nude drawing and nude painting is where you learn the balance of forces and the balance of thrusts.

Dave Gavitt

No! You've got to have meaning to the regular season. Right now, the balance is okay. That was my only fear when we moved to 64 teams. I was chair at the time, and I did have some trepidation that we would lessen the importance of the regular season.

Rob Lowe

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Hanna Zavecz

I thought my focus was there but obviously that shows up in stuff like shooting around the basket. I just got out there and tried to play my hardest. . I did try to focus on other things to help out the team just try to get a win.

James Williams

We just did not play well. The focus just wasn't there.

Tim Wakefield

You just try and focus on the next hitter and try and get an out. The fourth inning was horrible for me. But our offense did a tremendous job of picking me up.

Mark Shapiro

You just hope to get back to that level and get in. These guys don't need to focus on getting better.

Tyrese Rice

You just have to focus like you're in the gym by yourself with nobody watching.

Ignatius of Loyola

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

James Daly

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

Jaime Winstone

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

David Eger

I've always said there are a handful of stars out here, but there are also 70 or so very good players who could always win. If you're good enough to play out here, you're good enough to win.

Dusty Baker

I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,

Frances Jones

I've always wanted to volunteer to do something significant. Today's a very good time for me to do it.

Vinny Castilla

I've always (wanted) to play in San Diego. It's a great city, and I have a lot of friends there. I always hit good in San Diego, too.

Mike Trgovac

I've always thought that if you do a good job people will notice you. I don't self promote myself or all that.

Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

Lovie Smith

I've always liked him. I think he'll be a very good player in the league someday.

Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Warren Fields

I've always been good with numbers and good at getting numbers to where people could understand them. I never thought I would make a good (certified public accountant) though.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Joy Williams

Everything is gone. And it's not so much the material things. It's just ... that's home.

Clint Hurdle

The responsibility's on the runner to run through home plate all the time. There's no reason to ever slow down unless it's a home run. That way it's safety first and there's no questions.

Andrew Lochart

There's still plenty of unprotected home users, but this virus isn't ground-breaking.

David Henderson

There's so much parity in the league, so you've got to get those home wins. This one hurt. We needed to squeeze it out.

Cedric Bozeman

There's no time to be tired now. This is it. You lose, you go home and we don't want to go home.

Adam LaRoche

There's nothing worse than to lose in the first round, ... I'd rather not be in the playoffs at all. There's nothing worse than to have to go home after a loss.

Troy Vincent

There's nothing like winning. At least you can go home for at least that week and feel half-decent about yourself.

William Shakespeare

No worse a husband than the best of men.

Nina Bawden

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.

Bertrand Russell

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

Nolan Bushnell

literally thousands of people have told me over the years that they met their wife or husband playing Pong.

Grace Corrigan

We were nervous, and in fact, we were sitting there waiting, and my husband said, 'If I could, I would go and take her off of that thing.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Jean de la Bruyere

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Jayma Mays

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

Ken Koelbl

Even when things were tough, I kept things in perspective. I looked at what we were going through as paying our dues. Sometimes you have to struggle before you can get to where you want to go.

Jose Contreras

Even when Jose was struggling we kept sending him back in there to get over it. It was a long process and it paid real well,

Patrick Kaler

That just kept people away, because they couldn't get out of their own hometowns.

Lee Smith

It's much more valuable kept together than it is in pieces.

Stephanie Spell

Students are being kept in school as a precaution.

Andy Schmitz

It looked like we were going to let them do it again. We just kept working. We did the little things we didn't do last time.

Chris Garvin

It just wasn't our day at all. You keep telling the kids to play thought it, but it's hard. They kept hustling, but we weren't making our shots.

Harry Taylor

It kept them from really concentrating on their duties, because it was very distracting what was going on.

Henry Hall

It kept on and got worse and worse.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Ewan McGregor

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

Judi Dench

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Josh Duhamel

I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.

Pat Cooper

I'm the best at being lucky.

Kathy Bates

I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

Matt Damon

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

Marian Wright Edelman

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

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Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Amos Lee

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Anna Howard Shaw

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Conrad Hilton

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Conrad Aiken

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Corita Kent

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Daniel Yankelovich

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.