Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denny McCrotty

We failed to make the routine plays in the field. We choked in that situation." ()

Scott Verplank

I totally choked it on 17. I should have won it right there.

Michael Woolfolk

Oil prices have risen so dramatically that the view now is that this could choke off U.S. growth and prevent any recovery in the stock market.

Sathya Baba

See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.

Daniel Harris

It was very emotional after the game. Dean spoke to us and really choked up, because he's (Colbert) put so much into the club and just the way he goes about his footy and just in life, he's a great fella and we wish him all of the best,

Ron Gardenhire

That one kind of choked me up. I thought that was a pretty nice thing by big Buck.

Rich Aurilia

You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two strikes. I wasn't looking for an offspeed pitch, but I knew he had it. He ended up throwing me another fastball that I stayed on and hit it where I was supposed to hit it instead of trying to pull it.

Michael Rich

We're at a point in our history where we need to make some tough decisions about how we want to live, work and play over the next several years or we are going ... to choke on our own growth.

Charles Bukowski

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Rafael Chaves

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Tyler Cowen

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

Rob Salter

We're starting to be unselfish and make good decisions.

Skip Holtz

We're going to treat it like tryouts, and after the week, we're making our decisions and we're going with them. We can't wait any longer.

Darrell Bevell

We're still looking at everybody. We haven't made any decisions yet.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ian Rosenberger

Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Bryan Clifton

This has been going on now for several months. It has been going on for a while.

Ron Parks

They still have several things in their name.

Russ Cooper

This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Joe Gibbs

I should have said, 'Hey, we've got several things we're going to turn in and want to look at with them,' ... 'We see it one way, and we'll see how they see it.' That should have been my comments, but I went specifically . . . I went over some things there that you can't.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Kelly Guempel

We kind of threw him to the wolves. We put Shawn in several different weight classes, and he wasn't ready.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Jeff Perreault

The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call.

John Mulcahy

As we thought about it, we thought it was kind of a tough deal: now they have them, now they don't.

Randy Coleman

It's kind of been a tough day in McDowell County.

Michael Schwartz

It's kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.

Jamont Gordon

It's just real tough on the road. We got to take it to another level.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Jim Epperly

It's a tough place to go and win.

Rod Barnes

They tried to trap him, make things tough on him.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.