Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Thomas Moore

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Pat Lewis

Even though we didn't pull it off, it was a thrill to be involved with so many great athletes. This game is for a great cause and I think we put on a great show.

Robert Genuario

We think that's the way to go. We think it would not have been wise in this particularly volatile climate to increase the gasoline tax or increase a tax that would inevitably cause a rise in gasoline prices.

Ben Hatfield

We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.

Cindy Sheehan

What was the noble cause my son died for?

Carlos Negron

We talked to Mr. Nicholson and let him go. We have no probable cause at this time to make an arrest. It's an open case.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

Kevin Simon

Our defense played their hearts out. We just made more mistakes than Florida's defense did.

Toni Varacchi

Our defense played solid; we didn't give them any good looks at the goal. We're making it easier on ourselves.

Robert Stimson

We expect Oracle to immediately execute a round of layoffs targeted at Siebel's back-office and administrative employees.

Roy Green

Losing is tough. I thought we played well enough to win. We didn't quite execute the way we wanted to down the stretch. We got a shot, which is what we wanted.

Robert Nichols

That was pretty nice to get in the end zone. I know what I have to do, I just have to execute and make it happen.

Kim Ensing

We had good focus from start to finish. We didn't really execute offensively, but we won with our heart. I've said it all season long, this team has heart.

E. O. Wilson

We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's why you have to execute on every down. You do all that work, and then they hit a big play on you. That can't be how we do things.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Sarah Elliott

They had a lot of good pressure on us and we didn't execute our plays like we probably should have. We were just making a lot of simple mistakes that we could have corrected.

Anthony Solomon

Our young men laid it on the line but Rhode Island made the plays and we did not. It was a one-possession game. We didn't execute the way we would have liked to.

Suzanne Isidor

We are really focusing on execution and every person needs to step up and do their part. We need to execute and stick to what we are good at. We can't just rely on one person. We need to use all our weapons.

Neerja Pomal

From having the idea to working on it went pretty fast. We didn't just keep thinking about it. We had the idea, we did the research and then we had the execution of it.

Wolfgang Petritsch

One investigator was taken outside and threatened with execution.

Leonard Hamilton

I was proud of the way that we maintained our intensity. It's obvious that the guys learned a lot from our lack of execution our last time out.

Rodney Barker

I was very happy at that time because I had had a few minutes after the execution to really see what I felt inside. And I felt like the 14 years that she's been down here has done me no justice.

Steve Shephard

We need to focus on execution, no falls.

Brian Hill

We had way too many turnovers in the first half. We gave them 17 points. Our offensive execution to start the third quarter was poor.

Tom Williams

We've been really pushing very hard at being in stock. In retail, execution is the trick.

Chris Blackwell

We were well within the game in the first half. The execution was just not there.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

David Holmes

Wins are nice, but faster times are better. I think for a lot of the team it has been nice to find out that they can swim fast no matter how terrible they feel in the water.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Jitin Prasada

In India, because of the huge investments materialising in industry and infrastructure projects, the demand for steel has grown much faster than anticipated.

Philip Currie

The juveniles were faster than the adults they were longer-legged and more lightly built.

Emily Rockwell

Their jumps are bigger, vertical and horizontal, and they are faster because of leg strength.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Dave Duncan

The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Jeremy Corbyn

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Tony Dungy

As soon as I saw it I smiled, because I knew that's what he was responding to.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Marilynne Robinson

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Isabelle Eberhardt

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Horace

He is not poor who has a competency.

Chipper Jones

If he was trying to take me out, he did a poor job.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Brene Brown

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Mark Cochran

We have a 12-hour policy. We'll worry about it 12 hours. We have practice at 11 (today) and we've got to come out and prepare for Hickory on Tuesday.

Andrea Dworkin

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Alfred Kazin

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Debbie Ford

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Eden Sher

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.