Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Collins

I think everyone took deliberate steps to try to do what was necessary to make the buildings as safe as possible,

Chris Poland

We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

R. Halloran

If you look at their argument, there is really one tower they are basing it on. These design elements are contained in other buildings on the campus - and to say that their design contained those elements and our design contained these elements ... does not mean that we copied theirs. There's only so much you can do with a parking garage.

Michael Casserly

It's possible that it's nothing but a prank, but also possible that it's more emblematic of a larger problem that the city's high schools are having. Who knows what the motive and thinking of the individuals involved in the spill might be? But it's impossible for me to think that students haven't noticed the quality of education they are receiving and the conditions of the buildings where they are expected to learn and are not frustrated by what they see.

Daniel Briere

It went from being one of the loudest buildings to being very quiet.

Ray Lovell

It just cleaned off everything in the area. It took off the top of the highway, too. There may have been some agricultural buildings in that area, too, but we're not sure.

Sadhu Johnston

We don't know (how much power they'll generate), because it's a test, these are the first of their kind in the world. If it works we'll expand it ... to as many buildings as we can.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

We don't know how many more faulty buildings are out there. The problem could be even more widespread than just one architect.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

Bill Green

It was a horrible time. Dirt drifted up and covered barbed-wire fences. Conditions were much worse than they are today because we have learned a lot about soil conservation in 70 years.

Janica Kostelic

I was really surprised...but this is one of the nicest slopes for slalom and it seems the more difficult the conditions the better I do.

Mitch Daniels

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

Harvey Rosenblum

If you look at the record, at how the U.S. has weathered shocks, we have a very, very resilient economy. Initial conditions matter.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Dan Erikson

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

Jim Dale

What we are saying and implying here is that the education you get here is effective. It's not simply for its own sake.

Bradley Wilson

We were pleased that we had four other applicants that are leaders in higher education in the country,

David Keller

What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community?

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Chris Tocq

Microsoft is taking steps to include its Hailstorm services into all of its products. Hotmail can be expected to be a key beneficiary of that integration.

Don Nelson

I think people expected too much from him. He gave what he could give, and there was a limit to that.

Roberta Baskin

I think most of the American people already expected their representatives to pay their own way.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

John Bytheway

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Bill Reath

We had a talk about it in practice. It's not our priority. But if she's close, we are going try to run plays for her. It's quite a milestone. She's had a good season and teams have been guarding her tough throughout the playoffs, which I know has frustrated her. She's handled it well though.

Bill Nygren

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

Joe Gibbs

We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.

Ray Liotta

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

Zach Day

I'm a little frustrated it's taking this long, but it is spring training. It is what it is and I know what I can do when things are right.

Doug Aplin

If I told you what I said, you would have to use a lot of those shift keys on the keyboard. It was my fault. I got frustrated and said things I shouldn't.

Jeff Blyskal

People are already so frustrated with tech support, they're not even calling,

Paul Casey

Overall I am very happy. I can't be too frustrated - I feel I am getting back to where I want to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Mason Cooley

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Jim Murray

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

Bill Gates

Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.

Emily Post

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

Joe Nichols

I've learned to never underestimate the impossible.

Samuel Butler

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Sean Collins

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Mike DeBord

It could very well be because you don't know when you're getting a kid. You don't if he's at class, you don't know if he's at lunch, you don't know where he is at that time. So when you leave that text, you don't know what he's involved with. I think kids feel like they have to get back right away when somebody texts, and I think it's interfering with things they should be doing. You don't want to overdo it, because you don't want to upset the kid or the family.

Darin Brumby

I have seen and been involved in acquisitions where that big question is left unanswered.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Enzo Bianco

Berlusconi will lose because of this. Everyone knows things aren't going well.

Albert Camus

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

Rashida Jones

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

Veronica Roth

It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Mark Sanford

What I've come to learn is that (the Jasper port) would be a private (venture), ... If that's the case, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

Tim Farriss

You have to learn to pace yourself, in everything. Sure, there's a pub in every town. But you don't have to go to all of them, right? If you want to do this, you have to learn to keep steady.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Mexican Proverb

One must learn how to lose before learning how to play.

Don Haskins

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

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Kevin Kodama

We might see some sun Sunday ... It will be partly cloudy, some staggered showers.

James Carrick

We might not see retail sales numbers that are that strong yet, but they will pick up toward the end of the year.

Rahul Dravid

We might not risk him if the problem doesn't settle.

C. S. Lewis

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Arlen Specter

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Ben Feldman

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Elie Tahari

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Thornton Wilder

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Roger Rosenblatt

The problem with death is absence

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Marlon Brando

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

Sherry Argov

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Nicolas Cage

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Nas

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Roy Barnhart

Our students will not be the only ones using this building.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'