Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Biel

My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother asked Dad to please keep the children together. He did.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Paul Goodwin

We adopted a different shape when we went down to 10 men and I felt we played some good football in the circumstances.

Martin Jacques

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Richard Land

that in the early 1990s prompted moderates to leave in droves. In 2000, former US President Jimmy Carter left, despite being a three-generation Southern Baptist, complaining that the convention had adopted policies that ''violate the basic premises of my Christian faith.

Richard Gentles

It's in a temporary home. It will be adopted to a family whenever that group decides the time is appropriate.

Scott Marshall

It's clearly a strategy -- Trujillo has said from his first day in Australia that regulation is a prime focus, he's adopted a confrontational style and both he and the government are playing hardball,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Gilberto Madail

Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of proof.

Dusty Baker

Running is the hard part. It's getting close to having to make a decision.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Robert H. Connelly

It was unlike any feeling I've ever had, ... because we're so close to these Marines.

Barry Hyman

It was unanimous we'd have a year-end rally until the yield curve inverted. We wanted to close the market on a high note this year, but now we're worried that the 2006 market will have to deal with this. The next Federal Reserve meeting will be extremely critical. We have to hope this isn't predictive of a recession or a slowing economy.

Francesca Schiavone

It was very tough and she played very well in the most important moment. I didn't push maybe sometimes when I had to push...it finished like this...I was very near, very close to winning.

Jane Seymour

Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Ben Hogan

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Ben Hogan

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Ben Hogan

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

Ben Hogan

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

Alistair Cooke

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

Dick Bartholdi

Some people thought we were going to lie down and lose 15-0. But our kids don't do that. I'm biased, but I think our kids work harder than anybody.

Kristen Kovesdy

Once we went and got a taste of it, we knew we wanted to get back there because we know how hard it is getting to the NCAA every year.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Jane Clayson

Once you get off the network news train, it's hard to get back on.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Bret Michaels

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

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.

Brian Cashman

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

James Wolcott

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