Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Cheeks

Kevin is a veteran who has been around for a while. It's no disrespect to John. He's still learning this game. I told him that I don't want him to accept it. I want him to go out and learn from it and work hard.

Tom Coughlin

Kevin's a great coach and the hands-on guy that's taken Eli through all the mental processes, ... Being his position coach, it's Kevin's responsibility to teach him how to conduct his business and how to accept his role as a team leader.

Victoria Clarke

Known as perfidy or treachery, such acts are strictly prohibited because they make it extraordinarily difficult for coalition forces to accept surrendering forces or protect civilians.

King Abdullah

Kissing hands is alien to our values and morals, and is not accepted by free and noble souls,

Steve Gantt

I wouldn't say it couldn't be done, but I would say it would probably be pretty expensive. That was a decision they made that they wanted to go in that location and were willing to accept responsibility for it.

Larry Peacock

Jake is in a groove at full back. He helps us establish the interior game we really have to have. He's more than accepted the role - that is a very unselfish person right there. You're looking at a kid who invested a lot of time in the summer to become the quarterback, but at this point and time we need him at this position.

Jon Scieszka

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

Ken Edwards

Just like players, coaches and fans we have to accept the sporting outcome.

Chris Greene

Just passing is not acceptable in our household. We have high expectations and use those tools to motivate, guide, and sometimes when a crisis hits, there have to be things taken away. We don't let it slide, ... It should not be the parent's option, it should not be the student's option to make the decision to go to the athletic field. They must have fulfilled their obligation in the classrooms first.

Trevor Noah

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

Mark McKinnon

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

Bill Belichick

I think any player that hasn't played football for a while, and then comes back and tries to catch up to a lot of guys who have been playing on a regular basis, they're behind. They have to be. If they weren't, then we should cancel all the practices and just show up for the game.

David Flaskas

He was supposed to be flying to Melbourne (Monday) to be at the launch of a new Adidas concept store ... but we've had to cancel everything.

Gerry Adams

I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process.

Glenn Johnson

If you have hotel reservations, don't cancel them,

Scott Henderson

I remember him telling me how hard it was to get people to invest in GPS, ... He knew it would have outside civilian uses, but Congress wanted to cancel it numerous times. In the long run, it did just what he predicted and has become a $20-billion industry in the United States.

Darren Boyd

I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer.

Carlos Perez

I had no worries about the gas, ... I knew it was going to go up, but I had this planned for months. I wasn't going to cancel all my plans because of the prices.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

Irene Haas

Historically whenever there are political issues that might raise uncertainty in terms of supply interruption, we see oil prices spiking,

Steve Shaw

It could make some political issues more interesting and some political lives more difficult.

Robert Milmore

Labor is always a big issues and the pilots union is one of the toughest unions to integrate. There's a lot of moving pieces and a lot of questions in this deal.

Vicki Gottlich

We suggested months ago alternative ways to respond. We think these issues were expected.

Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Rose Byrne

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Samuel Morse

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Samuel Johnson

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Salman Rushdie

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Hosni Mubarak

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.