Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Bobby Thomson

I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could run. I had a good arm. And I could hit with power.

Marcus Allen

I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.

Carly Patterson

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

Rafer Johnson

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Bobby Thomson

I think I had potential to be a legitimate guy out there, but I think I was a disappointment to the Giants because I was inconsistent.

Michelle Wie

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

Jeff Gordon

I still think we have a great shot at this championship.

Nick Johnson

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

Keith Bowermaster

The total cost was $270. Most lawyers charge that for an hour. At the time, we just wanted to get this over with, move on with our lives, and not get everything dragged out with lawyers.

David Gross

The United Nations will not be in charge of the internet. Period,

Mike Babcock

(Thursday) we're going to compete. We've skated for two days and now we'll start to compete. We were on a charge going in (to the Olympic break), now we'd like to charge coming out.

Kofi Annan

too early to say who's going to take charge and who's going to run the government.

Karen Szulczewski

We've been telling them since February, when we extended the time they could remain in the trailers, that we were going to charge rent.

Patricia Fripp

The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life around.

Brian Sweet

We'll shut you down and we'll charge you.

David Beatty

The problem is having the fox in charge of the henhouse.

Shashi Nathan

The present charge is one for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. There is a possibility of a life sentence.

Andrea Dworkin

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

Andrea Dworkin

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

Andrea Dworkin

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Amy Winehouse

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Amanda Bynes

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

Abraham Maslow

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Alexander Hamilton

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

Alex Rodriguez

Looks aren't the number one thing. They have to have class, intelligence, then looks. If I was the ugliest SOB in the world it would be a lot easier.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

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.

Richard Marcinko

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Tony Robbins

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

Vernon Davis

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

Scott Walker

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

Michael Pollan

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Lance Morrow

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Peter Drucker

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Chan Gailey

Everything is minor in my mind right now. The worst right now is Pat Clark.

Barry Gibb

There's still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.

John Dillon

There's no question in my mind we will be a stronger company.

Mitt Romney

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

George Phillips

There's no question in my mind it will reopen, ... We need out regional labs.

Meredith Whitney

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

Hersh Wolch

The problem is, after he testifies, he can't get it out of his mind and he has to be hospitalized.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.