Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Robert Kirkman

As far as the trades go, I want to avoid how comics have captions or just really stilted dialogue at the beginning of the pages.

Neal Boortz

As a radio talk show host, I can say things no one else will because they are worried about being ostracized socially or on the job. I don't avoid controversy. My job is to stir it up.

Ian Heinisch

As a team, we have a little more pressure, but I think we are going to pull it off. I'd like to pin my way through state, that is my goal. But there are some good guys out there, and we will all have to avoid making critical mistakes.

Arthur Phillips

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

Ray William Johnson

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

Bill Sammons

The bottom line is this was probably a dumb call. You pick up the phone, you say, 'Let's get a statement out and get this behind us.' You avoid the kind of feeding frenzy we're seeing here today. I think the press smells a little blood in the water.

Tom Norton

The bottom line is that it would make the bonds very difficult to market. In some cases, where free roads are designed to take people to and from the same points as a toll road, they would use the free road to avoid the toll.

Joseph Lisanti

Avoid buying the highest-yielding stock in any one particular group, for that is often indication the market has beaten down the shares on fears of a dividend cut. It's better to buy something with more modest current yield and a good track record of increasing dividends.

Carole Theriault

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

Frank Murkowski

Any increase in oil production will just go to meet increased demand that has already taken place, ... Thus, any increase will not result in significant price reductions to consumers ... at best it will just keep them from continuing to spiral out of sight.

Gregory Craig

Any proceedings from this date forward only serve to delay the final resolution of this matter and run counter to the best interests of the Congress, the presidency and the American people, ... We remain convinced that the national interest is best served by ending the process in a way that is fair, speedy and bipartisan.

Ken Hitchcock

Any player who thinks he is owed anything is wrong. You talk about the best players in the world, and they understand that. They always think they are a week away from going into the stands.

Kurt Warner

Anquan reminds me a whole bunch of Torry: the way they run routes, their strength to the football. Larry's a big young receiver, continues to grow. Those two guys I played with in St. Louis are the two best receivers I ever played with. The guys here have the same potential.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Mark Sanchez

As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Martin Brodeur

As far as I'm concerned, he's the best hockey player that I've played against.

Henry Hughes

Any time players have an issue or concern like this, we take a look at it. It's really not an issue from our standpoint.

J. C. Watts

Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.

Shane Richardson

As far as we are concerned 'Mad Monday' doesn't exist,

So Taguchi

As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want to establish myself as a regular in the team.

Nick Fazekas

As far as I'm concerned I don't feel we've won the thing yet. We talk about sharing the title. We don't want to have to share the title with anyone.

Felipe Alou

As far as I'm concerned he's playing (tonight). (But) everybody wants him to play in the home opener. At this hour, I really don't know. My plan was not to play him (tonight) and play him in the (home) opener and go from there.

Milan Mandaric

As far as I'm concerned he'll never die... he's been a very special friend and a very special man.

Alan Curbishley

As far as I'm concerned Darren has just got to keep in Eriksson's face. I don't mean by scoring every week or getting to 20 goals, he just has to perform well and try to improve his game. There are going to be games when he isn't going to score so he has to contribute more in other ways. If he can do that it is only going to enhance his position.

Arthur Williams

As far as I am concerned he is still a member. He hasn't resigned.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Brian Sullivan

You have a rising tide out there, and it's even better if you're not near the water.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

Pascal Lamy

you have to go as near as possible to the people who want to punch you.

Paul Carter

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George H. W. Bush

one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our time.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Ben Horowitz

Leadership is hard to train on.

Gary Convis

Through this cascading system, we will end up training everyone the same way.

Andy Kindler

I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

Angelo Dundee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.

Robert Fripp

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Rick Moody

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!