Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Victor Hugo

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Todd Duncan

If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.

Peter Baynham

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

Brad Saindon

Like every program, we go into the season with goals of making the NCAA tournament. That is our number one goal, to make it to the Field of 64. They are pretty lofty goals, but you have to aim high.

Jack Scalcucci

Losing to them twice last year left a hole in our gut. That gave us a goal to aim for this year, and I'm happy we accomplished that, but it's not over yet.

Kevin Sinclair

Many people find applying for life assurance confusing and tend to put off buying decisions. We aim to make the process as quick and easy as possible with premiums amongst the cheapest available,

Albert Schweitzer

Aim for service and success will follow!

Jay Grossman

Nik's aim is to be the best goaltender in the league. And certainly, out of deference to Marty, who Nik respects quite a bit, he's right there.

New Giants

Rosie was a great Giant, ... He was with this organization for more than 50 years as a player, coach and scout. He excelled in every area and he was always a gentleman.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Ben Edelman

Revenue sources is the area where I am most excited about and focused on right now. How do these programs make money? Who buys these ads?

Jim Harris

I've seen no change, ... Everything we're selling is three-quarter ton pickup trucks, Denalis Yukons. I just think that people in this area have money and three bucks a gallon hasn't fazed them.

Trent Yawney

It was to remind them what professionalism is about. The first one was a stock 2-on-2, and the second, we left the most important area on the ice wide open.

Rob Dickson

I see that as an area that holds great promise for being the next sort of hip and trendy area.

Bruce Terry

The whole reason for moving (the Boys & Girls Club) to the area was so that our kids could ride their bikes to the club. That's not the case anymore. This just aggravates the situation.

Pete Saco

The whole purpose ... is to eliminate as much of the gray area that we can.

Dean Ornish

The whole point of science is to help people sort out conflicting science, and nowhere is there more conflicting claims than in the area of diet, ... It's important to bring together good scientists. Good scientists say, 'Show me the data.'

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.

George Scalise

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

Hosni Mubarak

encouraging, balanced and gives hope for the peace process to move forward.

Evan Bayh

To strike the right balance between protecting Hoosiers' health and maintaining a strong economy, ... we need to take the time to get the rule right.

J. M. Roberts

We all have our different interests and needs, and we're trying to maintain a balance between the health of the creek and the people who depend upon it for water.

Steve Witt

We all have diverse backgrounds, and it's a perfect balance that we have on the board. Our relationships with one another are excellent.

Nicole Mayo

We all had to write a report last night. Did it happen? Yeah, but we took a lot of breaks. We spend a lot of time studying, but we balance it out with humor and fun.

Marty Jaggers

Everybody we have played has run a five-man front on us because we use two tight ends and like to run the ball. That enables the defense to balance up better with our offense. Occasionally, we will try to go with an unbalanced line to offset that.

Laura Bush

Everyone supports stem-cell research and so did the president and there are embryonic lines for research. It's a very delicate balance between what we want to do for science and for research and what is ethically and morally right to do.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Jeffrey Hunter

The Mountains to Sea Trail is an important link in a planned 5,000-mile trail system here in the Southeast. Participants in the volunteer vacation will help to take us one step closer to building out this great trail system for future generations.

Kathy Johnson

School can be a terrifying place, but it really is a loving place. Everyone in the building is there to help your child and you.

Alan Jackson

I've played this thing as long as I can remember, I guess. I'll tell you what ? this building sounds a lot better than the other one.

Brian Millard

It would be a better building if we went to Samuelson. It will be a much safer environment. It's a newer building in much better shape.

Tim Paddock

These seniors were fantastic to go from a three-win team to a 10-win team and for many that may not sound like a lot but when you are building a program, that's huge.

Rachel Sklar

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

Greg Conrad

Things will start rolling into Prairie Dunes May 8. We'll start building our hospitality facilities and bleachers and TV towers. Those things will continue until about a week prior to the Open. What it really comes down to is that we're building a small city, complete with places to eat and places to shop.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go on runs and win 20 games one or two years in a row. You really separate yourself if you do it three, four and now five years. It puts you on a whole other level. It's something a lot of people didn't think could be done here.

Paul Konerko

We're happy we don't have to see him a lot. In the last five years, when he's been healthy, he's been doing the job. It's not a lack of skills. It's just a matter of that injury. If he gets healthy, he's going to do some damage.

Lizzy Caplan

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

Gerald McRaney

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

James Kennedy

As I look at the opportunities between now and 2010, I think they're very, very stable. For five years, it's growing.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Jim Valentine

We have a 75 percent attendance. One out of four students don't show up. At lunch time we lose 15 to 20 percent more. We can't teach them unless they're in class.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Tony Blair

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

Tony Blair

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase

Tony Blair

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

Tony Blair

We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will

Simone Weil

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Richard Branson

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Bob Leib

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Andy Xie

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

Vladimir Putin

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Vladimir Putin

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

Peter Jackson

There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.