Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Wilson

We all know it's a high-profile case, ... I don't know Moe Amery from a hole in the ground, so I had no difficulty in accepting the file.

Jennifer Fallon

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

James Frey

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

George White

The first attempts embraced information access and not commerce, ... The next phase was commerce, phones connected to Web sites. Now voice portals are accepting phone calls and retrieving information from Web databases, ... databases that would normally be driving Web sites.

Robert Ward

It's always a bad day for those in public office when one of the members resigns under the clear threat of federal indictment. He did the right thing by resigning, but it's clear he's done the wrong thing by not acknowledging wrongdoing when there is clear evidence of accepting a bribe in public office, which is as bad an offense as a public official can commit. It reflects on the General Assembly and all public office holders.

Glenn Tilton

The Plan of Reorganization reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built,

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Doreen Toben

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Colleen Kennedy

We will make sure we will reestablish appropriate financial controls.

Lewis Mandell

Financial literacy is still a very significant problem. It doesn't seem to be getting any better.

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.

Norman Peacock

We should be looking at situations long-term. We should plan for five years from now, 10 years from now, instead of all of a sudden worrying about how to fix something.

Josh Fodor

We are a solid team of a group of guys who get the job done. We know once we get off the ice there is another five guys who will pick it up.

Gord Ash

We are going to have players who can pinch-run late in a game and then stay in, because they can play five different positions. That's a big move for a manager to be able to make.

Willie Randolph

We went in with the notion of not having him pitch more than five or seven and 80-something pitches or whatever. He went 120 last time out. He's been really banged up.

Troy Hudson

We wanted him to see five white jerseys every time he touched the ball. We have trust in each other.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Claudio Fava

Somebody paid the bill. But this is my question: Who paid?

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Robert Blake

Paid him? ... Don't put words in my mouth, junior.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Nat Friedman

We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,

Joe Gibbs

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude Levi-Strauss

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Nathan Lump

People can then use it at their convenience, ultimately, and to go where they want to go.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Seth Godin

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Sumner Redstone

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Michael Eisner

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Michael Porter

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Sherilyn Fenn

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Ville Valo

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

Suzanne Collins

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?