Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Ralph

Those kids are fantastic people and hopefully they'll understand why I took this job. I wish nothing but the absolute best for them for all but two games next year.

Vaclav Havel

You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it.

Rudi Giuliani

You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target.

Paul Hense

Make sure the bank gives you an absolute commitment.

Norman Gillespie

So it was an absolute miracle and Utzon was really so overwhelmed that a foreign country took him on to build something that was so bizarre in many ways.

Martin Heidegger

So it's clear from whence the history of philosophy is the inner movement of the course of spirit, that is, of absolute subjectivity, towards itself.

Wayne Hale

so is that the absolute worst thing that could happen? Well, no, it's not.

Jim Daly

She was a great kid. Just a really beautiful girl, ... This is an absolute tragedy.

John Roth

Obviously cash conservation is a No. 1 priority as we make sure we get our cost structure in line in this period of very low revenue, ... This is an absolute surprise. We've never seen a downturn this rapid.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Reed Sorenson

I think the main challenge will be running 800 miles every weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I needed to run both, just being a (Busch series) rookie last year. There'll be times when I wish I hadn't done it, but I needed to do it so I'll live with the decision.

Michael Carty

The challenge for stocks next week is going to be getting through more Iraq news.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, Yahoo!, I'd have all my money back.

Warren Buffett

The policies that we're following are likely to lead to a weaker dollar over a long period of years. It's not a forecast for next week, or next month or even next year.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Todd Galloway

We have to get out there and get to the shooters and at least put a hand in their face to make it a tough shot.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

David Chamberlain

We've got so much stuff. Everybody's help was overwhelming and it was nice to not have to worry about where we'd get the money to pay for this kind of stuff.

Greg Williams

We're trying to help our shooting percentage - get some shooters in here. To lose by three and shoot around 50 percent from the free-throw line - that's not going to get it.

Barry Hannah

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

Kelly Shackelford

We think the vast majority of people in Texas are with us but that doesn't help if they don't show up.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Charles Djou

I hope we can work something out by the end of the month.

Justin Upton

I hope we can set some history, ... But that's not up to me. That's up to the teams that are drafting.

Lois Spence

I hope we can keep it going. It's a worthwhile endeavor. We'd like to keep it afloat.

John Carr

I hope we can get them lined up today and get everything ready to go,

Cynthia Zea

I hope we can get our (district) openers in.

John Breaux

where do you get the money to pay for it?

Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Joey Lauren Adams

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Ovid

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Mark Twain

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Nicki Minaj

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Nicki Minaj

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

Mike Phillips

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.

Larry Wall

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Bobby Scott

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

Richard Branson

Past failures unlock future successes

Robert Anthony

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert A. Heinlein

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Sophia Myles

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

Ron Kaufman

Never rest on past success. Create something better.

Ron Kaufman

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Roger Rosenblatt

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

Sam Shepard

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.