Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Nikolai Spassky

There are chances of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem.

Allyson Doyle

We stopped talking, stopped moving and that really hurt us in games three, four and five. We had chances but we didn't take advantage. I think we got too comfortable (after game two) and kind of let up a little bit.

Ken Hitchcock

We're in a tough state right now. We have some real adversity. Every mistake is in our net. We can't score on the chances we get. We can't kill penalties.

Jim Host

Where I thought my chances before were 10 percent or less, I would say they're less than one-half to one percent.

Steve Cotterill

We were asleep. I think if I'm honest Norwich deserved all three points. We had our chances - it could have been 5-4 - but I think in the end 2-1 was probably a fair reflection.

Greg Kraft

We've always had chances for brilliance. The talent is there but it's just how quickly it comes together.

Chad Lavin

When we had our chances to win this game, we didn't. When they had their chance, they did. That's what it boiled down to.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Swedish Proverb

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Russ Feingold

The refusal gives rise to a reasonable inference that the administration has something to hide here. The administration has done this nominee no service by maintaining its intransigent position.

Bill Alexander

We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.

Greg Cipes

Usually for cartoons, I record them in the mornings from 9 A.M. to noon, then I have the rest of the day to do on camera. It actually gives me time to work on my own projects.

Bob Venero

With the lower-priced models we now have a door-opener; this gives us an opportunity to play where we've never played before.

Leon Redbone

I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

Terri Mitchell

We knew without Carolyn on the court, everyone had to do something extra. There are a lot of things Carolyn gives us that we needed to make up for, and we did a lot of great things tonight.

Ivory Latta

The more pressure we put on the guards, that gives Candace more touches, and then she will probably end up getting tired, which she did a lot.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Dieter Zetsche

We're sticking to the timetable for the moment.

Avril Lavigne

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Gil Jackson

They're sticking together. We just want them to play well, but they want to win.

Dave Carlson

It's tantamount to sticker shock. Motorists are not getting what's advertised, and that's not right.

Andy Gugliemini

It's about family, and sticking up for each other and being there for each other. That's what we want it to represent.

Donald Rumsfeld

The strategy is working, and we should stick to it,

Greg Walker

The thing that sticks out to me about him, he's our kind of player. He's a grinder.

Charles Vennat

No, what's important is that you keep your stick on the ice.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.