Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Bob Hill

As I told him when I met him, I thought he should have started in Memphis. The great thing about him is he really doesn't care if he starts, he just wants minutes. He's got a great attitude for this team.

Jamie Carragher

Djibril has already shown everyone his attitude is going to be spot on,

Steven Adler

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

Steve Wynn

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

Cynthia Harris

To really make a significant impact you need to change your driving habits and your attitude toward driving. Drive at consistent speeds, car pool. Do whatever it takes. On Sunday, don't drive. Leave the car at home. Make sure you use the vehicle. Save the SUV for the long holiday weekend. There's a lot you can do on a personal level that can change your spending habits.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Nick Becker

We've been writing back and forth, and I'm excited to meet (my pen pal).

Dalai Lama

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

Mike Costello

We have a strong group. These kids are excited and have good leadership.

Jake Bacon

We know it's going to be tough. However, the girls are excited to see what they can do.

Mike Modano

Those guys are quick and they move a lot, and I think that helps us. And you can tell they're excited to be out there. It just gives us a different option.

Leslie Feist

Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Sergei Fedorov

No, I don?t look at the standings. I would know when we win 10 in a row. It?s not so much what (the standings) are worth and not worth, I just don?t want to get too excited before anything has happened. . . . I take sort of a different mental approach, to maintain focus, and just because I?m busy. Very busy.

Scott Ellis

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Yutaka Miura

The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,

Kevin Lyons

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Shawn Green

The stuff he was throwing tonight was as good as you're going to see in this league.

Jeff Shaw

The students are helping their high school, they work hard, and it's a good product.

Jim Cole

The student population is at a relatively good time of life in terms of health, strength and vitality,

Liz McColgan

The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both," ()

Ian Foster

The squad has had a good rest this week after our trip. While we have had a short preparation this week, it has been a concentrated one.

Margaret Whelan

The spring selling season is off to a good start. It's not as strong as last year, but it's not weak by any means.

Johnathan Frakes

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

St. Jerome

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

George Cukor

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Harland Williams

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Alan Arkin

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

Ida Lupino

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.

George Bicher

This will be a soap opera, with no one writing the script - stay tuned.

Stanley Baldwin

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Sigmund Freud

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Steven Morrissey

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

Steven Pinker

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Sue Monk Kidd

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Robert Burns

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Randy Quaid

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Ellen Hopkins

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

John Bunyan

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

Jon Stewart

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

Kate Atkinson

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Justin Timberlake

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

Jimi Hendrix

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.