Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

George Gregan

The big thing is they give a big boost of raw energy and enthusiasm and ? you just see the absolute excitement and joy of being part of the national team and it just reinforces to everyone the special sort of place we're in,

Brennan Bilberry

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

Robert Bork

Once the justices depart, as most of them have, from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, they lack any guidance other than their own attempts at moral philosophy, a task for which they have not even minimal skills. Yet when it rules in the name of the Constitution, whether it rules truly or not, the Court is the most powerful branch of government in domestic policy. The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.

Sam Ginzburg

The mood of the market is absolute nervousness and the mood of traders is absolute frustration. Because we're so oversold, I think we're ready for a trading bounce but there are just too many cross currents to balance right now.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

Lou Lefevre

Coach Just has his team in absolutely splendid condition. We're not a deep team and we're not in good enough condition.

Cliff Drysdale

And there are so many more beside those where replays would have made a huge difference. I absolutely think some big matches would have gone the other way.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

David Carr

As far as the records go, that has to be thrown out the window for right now when I go talk to the guys when I'm trying to get them encouraged and get them pumped up and ready to play. We have to lock it up, run the right route. I'll hit you and then we'll worry about the record later.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Jeff Conine

You sure hope so. You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.

Barbara Pym

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Eric Kandel

What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

Charles R. Swindoll

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Jane Austen

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Elie Wiesel

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Mike Grant

You might say it's more of a reinvent-the-wheel sort of thing using modern technology.

Fred Taylor

You might end up with a Venus that's quite a lot like people thought it was going to be in the 1950s.

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Tiger Woods

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

Jay Bryson

Obviously, this quarterly swing is a one-off event.

Mike Trapasso

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.