Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Paterson

We are delighted to win because it's the first time we've beaten the Ospreys, but it was a strange day. We were really motivated and we are usually positive and assertive but it wasn't the case early on and we got ourselves into a bit of trouble. But I think huge credit comes out of the way we fought back.

Samuel Huntington

Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it's the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.

Lorelei Sims

I'm an assertive person who happens to be female. I think you have to be assertive to run for political office.

Marc Crawford

I don't think we were complacent, I don't think that we got the start that we had wanted. We weren't very good on a couple of shifts. We took lazy penalties tonight. We weren't assertive enough when we went to battle.

John Waller

He certainly made big plays. He recognizes that he?s the guy who can make them. He has a great work ethic and I think he?s more assertive going after the football. We must have had 25 seven-on-seven (games) and you could see his confidence level rise. He expects to get the job done.

O. Henry

I have certainly made mistakes in the past by not being more assertive when bumps in the road appeared. Larry, Theo and other managers in the organization do not need me in order to excel at what they do, but I have a responsibility to ensure that divergent views and our overall direction lead to a better and stronger organization. We've averaged winning more than 95 games a year since we purchased the club. We've listened to the fans and improved the fan experience greatly. We have provided excitement during the season as well as the off-season.

LeBron James

We didn't want to get blown out on national TV. I just wanted to be assertive and just try to hit the open shots and drive to the basket, which I'm always capable of doing. So the MVP was never in my mind; just winning the ballgame.

Frank Olivas

The promiscuity of men in both these cultures is generally more acceptable. The thinking is that's OK for men to have side dishes. And that puts women at risk because many of these men don't use condoms. The two cultures are similar because there is a need for female empowerment so women can be assertive in their negotiating skills to get men to use condoms and be tested.

Frank Haith

We need him to be assertive like that and be a low post presence for us to be good.

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Gaines Adams

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

Barack Obama

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Joe Neff

That was the key play right there. He's a very good defensive pitcher, a very good all-around player.

Charlie Villanueva

That was the turning point in the game. That's definitely huge. I was struggling on the offensive end and a big defensive play made up for the offence.

Lisa Bluder

That was the difference. Our defensive intensity was there in the first half and non-existent in the second half. They just about scored at will. When somebody comes into your home floor and scores 48 points (in the second half), that's an embarrassment.

Heath Eliason

That was the difference in the game, we picked up the defensive intensity in the second half.

Kevin Browne

That would be a mistake (to play), a big mistake, but like I said, if it's a necessity, I'd do it, ... It would be if there were no defensive tackles (available). That would be the reason.

Mindi Winters

That was a huge thing, the defensive intensity. But I really feel like that experience with Highland the first time has matured us in a lot of ways. One thing about our season, we've had some 'necessary' failures.

Tucker Pappas

We need to keep playing together and keep up our defensive intensity. We just have to work for our shots.

John Marhefka

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

Lonnie Roberts

The overall effort was great all season long, and now we've got a little taste of the playoffs, too.

Carl Rogers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Antoine Lavoisier

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Bill Vaughan

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Bill Vaughan

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Gloria Trevi

The album, thank God, is a great effort that makes me proud, that has me thrilled.

Ken Slater

That was a tough one to lose. I really liked our effort for three quarters, and I saw a lot of good things, but we just got physically outmatched in the fourth quarter and we couldn't sustain things.

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Heidi Smith

I wish I was second because me and Dana are 1-2 at heart. But I'll take third.

Mitch Baker

I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.