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.

Suzanne Somers

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

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.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Marcel Proust

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Mahatma Gandhi

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Laurence Sterne

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Friedrich Schiller

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Mike Meyer

I knew when they wheeled him off he was stabilized. It was a huge relief but we knew we were not out of the woods by any means.

Sir Robson

I'm not interested in profit. But it's a huge offer, which we have to consider. I don't want to lose him, but it's a huge sum of money.

David Almond

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

John Morris

The FCC had to go through huge contortions to try to get around that specific exemption,

David Cameron

The Conservatives are back in our cities. But there is still much more to do ... we have a huge way to go.

Dwight Landry

A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Seth Rice

The kids are really competitive. That's a huge thing.

Catherine Bell

This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jay Wright

When you play a seasoned team like that, and you get a lead, you just know they're going to get a run.

Sebastian Telfair

Tonight as a team we went out and didn't give any effort.

Nichole Beall

To me it doesn't feel any different, we're all teammates. You look at the team as a whole, not as individuals.

Kevin Garnett

We've got a lot of new faces, a lot of variables, ... Can we win? Can we not win? What kind of team it's going to be. Our identity. How different things take shape. We'll find out pretty soon.

Bret Bielema

We will be a role-playing team at that position.

Ben Lamanna

This weekend showed our immaturity. We're not the team that we thought we were.

Seth Rice

This team worried me. That's a much better team than their record.