Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

Michael Nathanson

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Frank Solich

(Jacobs) has two receivers that are going to get a shot at pro ball and have the ability to play. They're averaging over 100 yards a game in receptions. They have a combination of things that makes it very hard to stop.

Virginia Laken

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

Louis Miller

Joe Leonard doesn't make quick decisions, which is good. He has the ability to focus on what he wants to get done.

Mike Eaves

Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.

Mike Scioscia

Joe has an incredible baseball mind and a tremendous ability to communicate with players on all levels. That's a combination any player should appreciate.

Paul Krumpe

Josh is a very versatile player who could very well be a major contributor this fall. He has the ability to play wide on the left or the right and possesses some great physical attributes.

J. Taylor

John is very athletic for his size. His strength is there. He's got to polish a few things in the passing game and some in the running game, but as long as he has a desire there to want to be successful, he's got all the athletic ability to be successful.

George Bodenheimer

Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Myles Munroe

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Jerry Davis

What would be nice would be if the mayor would do the right thing and resign, ... If he had any character whatsoever that's what he'd do.

Nick Saban

Here's a guy that's had a character quality career. He's been a leader in the community as well as on his team. Obviously, we've all done something on some occasion in our life that we regret and wish we wouldn't have done.

Brendan Taman

He's a good safety and a great character guy.

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Robert Rossiter

Our company is fortunate to have in place, one of the strongest financial teams in the industry, including Jim, who previously served as Lear's chief financial officer and has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Lewis Altfest

If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Joe Thornton

He let a couple of floaters in the second and then he got his confidence in the third and that was the difference, ... Eddie just really stoned us in the third period.

Robert Ferguson

He knows what I can do; I know what I can do. I've made plays in this league for five years now, I've made a lot of them for him, so confidence was never an issue as far as him having confidence in me. And I never lacked any confidence in myself.

Kyle Coston

Greg (Burgers) and I understood that everyone on the team had to have confidence in each other. We needed that to make a perfect circle. Something that Greg and I wanted was for everyone to feel comfortable and confident with who they were and what they did on this team. We learned that everyone on this team was going to come up big for each other.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Fabian Nunez

has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.

Clinton Portis

Guys were playing for each other, laying it on the line, and everybody was just fighting. The confidence is really up.

Kurt Warner

Guys hang on every word because they just feel the confidence that comes from him: 'This is what we're going to do, this is how we're going to win. They can pretty much take what he says to the bank.

Casey Silver

Hannah just picked up the game last year and she is very quick, ... Ellie is playing with more confidence and has been a pleasant surprise.

Su Chi

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

Corrine Brown

Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Rush Limbaugh

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

John Walsh

I'm passionate about the Constitution and the rule of law and the issue of fairness and the issue of acceptance. This is a wonderful community. Why would we want to do something that drives a wedge between us?

Robert Farmer

If one little item is determined to be unconstitutional the whole (legislation) is going to fall.

Rich Templin

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee's inside power brokers from the will of the people.

Russ Diamond

I'm going to retake ownership of my constitution. The constitution was written to limit the power of those we elect to office. This fight is a very important one. There are 12.5 million Pennsylvanians and 253 people in office in Harrisburg, drunk on the power. They don't get it. Out here, it's us versus them.

Elton Gallegly

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Lamar S. Smith

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen's got that very rare characteristic, high ears. This relates to being unusually quick at learning and understanding things.

Frank Cappiello

I think the judge has been very negative toward the company,

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Jeff Gundy

I don't judge people by how they come off the bus,

Cheryl Smith

I don't even judge him on that. Everything else I remember was pleasant. That's not the Kendall I remember. If he needed something, I would give it to him. He's my brother-in-law - he always will be.

Kekai Seabury

He never tell us sorry, he told the judge sorry, he never tell us sorry.

Wayne Dyer

You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life.

Samuel Johnson

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Ruth Messinger

Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Van Jones

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

Saint Basil

She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason..

Saint Augustine

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Erich Dumbeck

I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something done through the legal system that says, 'Don't do this again,' and I don't know what that means to do that are.

Steve Hall

I have two legal opinions that say that it's unconstitutional.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

John Roberts

I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,

Dave Scott

He was popular and a well-liked young man here.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Donna Newman

It's not a confidential attorney-client meeting. It's a meeting to wave at your client.

Olusegun Obasanjo

strive at this meeting to come out with solutions.

Fred Phillips

It shows what we are doing is working. We are meeting our goals, which is very exciting.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Hayley Wickenheiser

It's our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and how we look as well.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Harvey Mackay

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Emmanuil Kaidanov

It's nice, but it is the opinion of those people who take the poll.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Joey Logano

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Woody Allen

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

William Faulkner

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Pope John Paul II

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Pope Francis

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Pope Francis

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Paulo Coelho

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Marco Rubio

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

J. C. Watts

He was smart when he was off. He did therapy and did everything right. He still has a ways to go to get ready for downtown.

Sen. Jennings

I don't feel defeated, just ready to come back for the second and third reading. This is not going away.

Danny Sheaffer

I don't know what we can do about it. I'm ready for suggestions. You got any?

Daryn Colledge

I am excited. I'm ready to get out of here.

Seth Greenberg

He'll come back when he's ready to come back.

Will Smith

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

Will Smith

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Sachin Tendulkar

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Wendell Berry

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Mike Ferguson

Their role on the world stage is huge.

John Tortorella

They care. Let me make sure you understand that. If we're going to get points, they have to be on that (score) sheet. They know what their role should be. They're just not getting it done right now.

Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

William Howard Taft

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Wolfgang Puck

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

John Rollins

I just putted better today than I did all week,

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Steve Collins

I putted a lot better today and I think it made a difference.

Eugene Levy

I'll tell you why you're going to do what you're going to do today is because you're my bitch.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?