Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

There are technically better teams but we can compensate for that. We are not in the position to compete in Italy or other places but it is different at home.

Javier Ramirez

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Richard G. Scott

Investigators need a positive contact every day. Satan will work on them, and you have to compensate for that, and you need members' help.

Tony Russa

It's been a great story all year long, how we've been able to compensate for some really important pieces that have not been available, ... He's an important piece and we're still hanging in there.

George Foresman

It's pretty serious. We'll have to use our depth to compensate for his loss.

Robert Brusca

Eventually you have other prices going down to compensate for the fact that energy went up. But that doesn't work itself out in a month or two; it works out over a period of time.

Doug Mitchell

It's always very important to have a stopper so you don't have to send two or three guys at a great player and then try to compensate in other areas.

David Shields

It's hard to compensate for a super giant field with something much less than a super giant field.

Max Mosley

The World Motor Sport Council has decided to adjourn discussion of penalty to an extraordinary meeting, when it will be seen what steps have been taken to compensate the fans,

Kofi Annan

I think the important thing, ... is the council stood together and insisted Iraq rescind its decision before any other reviews can be undertaken.

Dale Graham

I think the council has good intentions but they need to really think this through.

Hoshiyar Zebari

What I said was in fact, we are ready as the new Iraqi interim government to resume our responsibilities, especially now that we have a new U.N. Security Council resolution,

Dennis Lynch

I do a lot of litigation and lot of municipal work throughout Rockland County, and the town was interested in getting the most experienced council they can.

Jonathan Moreno

If the president wants a council that serves as a public seminar in moral philosophy, indeed, that is what he got.

Ulysses Grant

I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans

Barbara Wilson

I know what they are talking about. When I went to work I was told that I couldn't go to council meetings and that if I did it could mean my job.

Sergei Mironov

The Federation Council will keep an eye on the law?s implementation and effectiveness and whether it matches the set tasks.

Amy Monier

The council worked so hard with us on the taxing district that they really know where we're going and what we're trying to do.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Gianfranco Fini

There are theaters in which Italy plays a role in symphony with the United States, ... The more the Iraqis are able to ensure their own security, the easier it would be to work out the time frame and the modalities for phasing out. But they have to be decided together, not unilaterally but with a consensus.

David Brand

There are still many unanswered questions, but we have decided to err on the side of safety.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Dave Richardson

He's desperately trying to get fit for the Super Series in Australia. He has had a discussion on the matter with John Wright. We have given him time till the 21st of this month to prove his fitness.

Rob Cline

We've been through this before. There's been discussion about it, but nothing ever really happened. I wonder this time if it won't just because of the speed that they're getting all this information out.

Brian Samson

We think all of those three are going to happen in the next two years. Ramona will probably be next. Actually there's been some discussion about whether to make Ramona a (full) station.

Gordon Strachan

I had a discussion about it over a plate of soup with Stan,

Mikhail Kamynin

If the upcoming discussion in London and Vienna and other talks over this theme go off normally, the holding of such negotiations in Moscow in mid-February is possible.

Greg Shaheen

The human element allows for the right kind of discussion to get a true consensus. It's powerful, it's poignant and it's human, and for us it works.

Jim Petro

All this discussion that we've heard about pay-to-play, it's gone on for 100 years. I think the one way to stop it, without having any gray areas, without having any limits, is to simply say if you're a vendor, don't start contributing to officeholders. That's off-limits.

Jeff Kingston

Everybody's eyes glaze over at the discussion of postal reform. So Koizumi is providing a three-ring circus.

John Venditto

He detected a motorcycle at a speed of over 100km/h in a 60km/h zone,

Robert Duncan McNeill

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

Robert M. Pirsig

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Ewan McGregor

When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.

Murray Walker

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Keith Carradine

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

Arlo Guthrie

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Juan Manuel Fangio

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

Katey Sagal

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Mark Tate

I think it's a skill to be able to take a penalty kick. There's a lot of pressure to step up there and take that shot.

Richard Matvichuk

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Mark Jones

It was a stone-wall penalty and it could have been very costly.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Glen Hanlon

The shots were 8-1 at one point and 13-3 and then we had a penalty and we don't kill it. I think that was the story of the game.

Jozef Stumpel

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Clay Peterson

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Don Waddell

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

David Trimble

had not been seen in the talks before.

Rob Kornaker

He has to be seen to be appreciated. He's such a talented player.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Richelle Mead

What...what are you doing?" "I won't know," he said with a grin. He took a step towards me. "But I'm pretty sure you were doing it too.

Regina Spektor

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

Tracy Spiridakos

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.

Saint Francis de Sales

The Lord delights in every little step you take.

Vince Vaughn

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Zig Ziglar

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William McDonough

Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.