Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Minoru Shioiri

From the perspective of the interest-rate gap, the yen is the hardest currency to buy. Japan is far away from raising its interest rate. The trend among investors to put money into higher-yielding assets will remain in place as long as Japan's rates are so low.

Lisa Pierce

One of the reasons there is reluctance among business users is that they have higher priorities.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I count Joseph Smith among those whose testimony of Christ helped me to develop my own testimony of the Savior. Before I recognized the tutoring of the Spirit testifying to me that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, my youthful heart felt that he was a friend of God and would therefore, quite naturally, also be a friend of mine.

Stuart Rothenberg

President Bush's poll numbers are already pretty bad, and there has been some concern among people about the long vacation while there is a perception that things aren't going so well. I hate to say it, but some of the role a leader plays after a disaster is public relations.

Paul Atkins

Investors for whom this level of oversight is important already can select from among registered advisers, ... If SEC registration were perceived to be uniformly desirable, the market -- meaning investors -- would eventually lead all hedge-fund advisers to register.

John Root

In my time, the philosophy among the board members was 'Just have a good fair,'

Russian Proverb

If you live among wolves you have to howl like a wolf.

Laurence Steinberg

If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in school, ... It's just more common among Asian kids and less common among black and Latino kids.

Sandy Alderson

As they become more frequent there is a chance they will become more serious. We want to stop these things before they escalate, ... When they do happen, we have to set an example for anyone else with the remote idea of doing something like this.

Marc Conti

I don't know if anyone could do the job George has done over there. It's been amazing.

Paul Browne

He's never asked anyone to do for him what he won't do for himself. That he's willing to put in $500,000 of his own money just shows how dedicated to becoming the state auditor he is.

Colin Gorman

I cannot say that there is any reason to fear death; I've yet to meet anyone who's been through it come back to complain about the experience.

Carol Foreman

I couldn't be more pleased, ... These kids are great here. They don't hardly know anyone in New Orleans ... but they wanted to do something.

Michael Walden

Go for your dreams, forget the drugs, stay in school, get your education and don't let anyone pull you down.

Mike Cameron

He's as good as anyone -- kid or veteran -- making adjustments. He knows himself and knows the game, so he can self-correct and improve. David's going to play at a high level pretty soon.

Austin Kearns

He's as clean as anyone you'll ever see.

Jim Boeheim

He's got more guts than anyone I've ever coached.

Julien Pain

No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout the world is at stake.

Mark Twain

My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere

David Law

New drivers need to have their full attention on the road and this is one major distraction that we in the Legislature can limit,

Emmanuel Soupre

Gains have been a bit quick. We have to take a pause. Investors' attention is on companies' outlooks.

J. M. Roberts

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's occurred to people. Especially people who commute from the suburbs, they may not have been paying close attention to the smoking ban and they may not realize.

Claude Julien

I don't think it's necessary to bring attention to that. We're kind of sensitive to the issue and understand that maybe it's going to take him a little time to feel comfortable, but we're OK with that.

Joseph Cohen

Global investor attention has recently focused on three nations: Russia, Brazil and Venezuela. The direct economic consequences for the United States are quite small,

Al Roker

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

Kerrilynn Gallagher

Playing four games is tough on your legs, but now we know the limits in which we can push our bodies.

Stephen Katz

In the next minutes, I heard four gunshots.

Horacio Ramirez

I get a little glimpse of it, and then it goes away. That's the thing that's frustrating to me. I'll go out there, have three or four good starts, and then have two horrible ones.

Dedrick L.

I never thought in my four years that Xavier would play like this. It's just unbelievable, embarrassing.

Marv Levy

In fact, the guy we sort of like right now, my strong guess would be he'll be there four spaces below.

Timothy Goebel

I guess I wasted four years of my life. I don't know what I'm going to do now.

Mike Trombetta

I guess our plans are, if he's doing well in four weeks, we'd have to be a part of it.

Jeremy Affeldt

I guess we have four more games to keep that from happening.

Mike Evans

I guess tonight showed everyone we have more than one player. We know we have guys that can come in and take up the scoring slack when Mike's not in there. Tonight we had three or four guys who did that. They really picked it up tonight.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Sri Chinmoy

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

Robert Browning

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

Robert Browning

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

Robert Browning

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Robert Browning

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Tony Parker

Every time we play Houston, we have a hard time scoring. Whenever you make the outside shot, it opens things up for us.

Louis Amundson

Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.

George H. W. Bush

there's people from all walks of life working hard to protect the American people.

Laveranues Coles

There's only so much you can do,' ... 'Just keep playing hard and it will be O.K.'

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Donny Robinson

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Dalai Lama

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

Desmond Morris

Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

Debi Thomas

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

Andre Agassi

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Andre Agassi

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

Andre Agassi

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

Andre Agassi

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

Andre Agassi

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.