Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Srikumar Rao

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Alan Doss

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

David Dobson

Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

Samuel Bodman

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

Pat Scales

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others -- based on their literary merit.

Andrew Strait

Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in a tough league, they've beaten a lot of good teams this year.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Steve Ballmer

Businesses are based on people. Software is a tool that can empower those people. I think Microsoft software is fairly unique in the way that it can do that.

Edward Hirsch

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

Don Maloney

On paper, I like the team that we've put together. Then again, I've felt the same way each of the past six seasons. But I like this group that we have assembled, and I think we may be even stronger by opening day.

Lorenzo Booker

My goals are a lot higher than that. I'm only twenty-something hours away from graduating. And, more importantly, I never felt like I was through, and once you leave, that's it.

David Jennings

From that point on. I think they felt like they could do nothing wrong.

Jose Vidro

I don't remember the last time I felt this good going into the season.

Stuart Raper

I was sure we were good enough to win the game and I spoke to the players about how I felt it was there for the taking.

Quin Snyder

I wouldn't even characterize it as benching. That kind of implies he was doing something that was upsetting me. He wasn't playing well. I felt like there were other guys who were playing better.

Elisabeth Shue

She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let that go.

Randy Johnson

I felt pretty good. That's what I've been talking about all along.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Suzanne Isidor

We are really ready. We are ready to play with something on the line.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Mayor Vance

If you don't take some time to dream, then you never have a vision.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Mark Ruffalo

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Dave Grohl

I like to keep things going, ... No breaks... We have such little time together!

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.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Ernest Hemingway

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Nate McMillan

I thought we were aggressive. We made them work for the most part.

William Russell

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.