Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Dave Federico

You're only allowed to do two events each, so we targeted this race and the 4x400. We felt we could run a time similar to two years ago and it just worked out that they ran very well.

Kenneth Branagh

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

Eric Walters

My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

Kaley Cuoco

I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.

Nancy Hinrichs

We did it at our meet in Indianapolis in the 800 free relay and the 400 free relay and it allowed us to beat Ball State.

Karen Friel

We needed a run. We needed a stretch where we could get three or four turnovers in a row to get back in the game. But they never allowed us to do that.

Tom Stoppard

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Rakesh Shankar

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Hiroichi Nishi

The impact on the broader market will be short-lived.

Robert Martin

We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

Jim Melcher

the market is, and has been, for the last five years driven by about the same 100 companies, but if you could see money moving down to the broader market, we've got some real values, a lot of good companies selling really cheap.

Dave Thomas

It was at least a conspiracy between two people. How much broader than that I do not know,

Diane Morais

Our Hispanic customers told us that they wanted lower transfer fees, money to be paid in cash over the counter in Mexico, and a broader distribution network convenient to their family and friends.

Shinzo Abe

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Jim Lowell

Beth is clearly one of their big names. The good news is she's not leaving to start a hedge fund.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

Jan Leroy

Corporate results are coming in a fairly decent way and are better than expected, the market is clearly focusing on the ones that surprise on the upside and are hammering the ones who disappoint.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jason Simmons

The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio.

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Kyle Busch

We decided we were going to get tires no matter what, ... On that last lap, I just had to keep my foot in it.

Gordon Lee

We decided to put a hold on what we wanted to do and stick it out -- hurt their business.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Rocky Peterson

We decided to go man, hoping our offense would pick up.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Dom Capers

We decided that we needed to make a move to improve our offense. We promoted Joe to offensive coordinator because we feel that he will be able to help us turn this around.

Hosni Mubarak

These elections come at a turning point in the history of our country, which is facing new challenges,

Teodoro Petkoff

Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the government, which should evaluate the anti-democratic impact.

David Brehm

There is no immediate rush for a special election.

Craig Jenness

The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible.

Callum Henderson

The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and the opposition to the Japan Post sale will be crushed.

Marisa Etmanski

The premier didn't mean to say that there would be national elections for senators this fall. He clarified (to me) that there would be discussions this fall on Senate elections.

Yosef Lapid

We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the extreme right in toppling the government over the peace process, ... We don't want to punish the government for the pullout from Gaza and I don't think we should hitch a ride on the extreme Right.

Mohammed Habib

If the elections had taken place in a good way, like the first stage, 35 of those would have won.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is going to vote for the resolution. It is important now to stick to the schedule that is to lead to free and fair elections by January 2005 at the latest.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Brenda Strong

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Sanaa Lathan

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Bhagavad Gita

Then Arjuna, filled with wonder and his hairs standing on end, bowed his head to the Lord and prayed with folded hands.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord of the Universe is the Support of His humble servants. They love the One Lord; their minds are filled with love for the Lord. The Name of the Lord is all treasures for them.

Kate O'Brien

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.

Mike Blair

We have a young team this year, with only three seniors and two juniors. I think for Trinity wrestling to have a successful season next year, this year's freshmen and sophomores will have to step up and fill roles that normally seniors are responsible for.

Dave Marshall

We've never had to pump this much water before. We're setting records, and there's no rainfall to help fill the reservoirs.

Barbara Turner

This team is one of the top teams in the league already. The younger players can just come in and fill a role and raise the level to where it needs to be to get back to being a championship team.

Doug Risebrough

We have to fill in some blanks. We have the (financial) flexibility to fill in those blanks. Our plan has to be executed, not just over this summer, but over the next two years.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Gary L. Francione

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Brian Jacques

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Brenda Strong

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

Jane Goodall

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.