Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Malcolm Bird

Kids don't care where it comes from as long as it is good.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Pete Noble

I wouldn't say Aptos punched us in the month. We just didn't do a very good job of taking care of the ball. And we didn't tackle well on defense. Let me take it a step further. We didn't tackle, period.

Tom DeLay

lawfully collected from individuals who knew what they were contributing to.

Paul Formica

People who usually have their premiums collected on a Tuesday or Wednesday won't be getting the CIS person coming round.

Robert Hartwig

Insurers have never collected a penny in flood-insurance premiums. If they're forced to pay, it could quite possibly be destabilizing and lead to the insolvency of smaller insurers in the area.

Vladimir Ustinov

His guilt is proven by all the evidence collected on all counts of the indictment,

Anderson Cooper

Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched.

Mary Bryant

The fees collected will be used to improve services of the state- owned television.

Jay Tunnell

The first few minutes of the game, we played tight. In the second half, we collected ourselves, and played well.

Jeff Koons

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.

Niaz Siddiqui

The evidences we have collected show that it was a suicide attack.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Thomas Russo

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Napoleon Bonaparte

International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

Tim Maluga

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

Phil Klay

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Steve Nyman

I like to portray myself as somebody that's likable and approachable. I'm not saying he's not. Bode is very intelligent. He just needs to learn how to use the intelligence in a better way.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Kelly Ayotte

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Nancy Reagan

the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Donald Rumsfeld

He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage,

Wayne LaPierre

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Sam Brownback

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Michael Vaughan

I had an injection on Wednesday night, tested it at nets yesterday and am going to monitor it over the next 48 hours.

Eric Lamoureux

This is a big storm, and slow moving. We need to monitor it and be ready to respond.

Leslie Cagan

It's one thing to monitor protests and protest organizers, but quite another thing to refer them to your counterterrorism unit.

Rich Ackermann

We wanted a tool that was not intrusive and was able to monitor the end-to-end experience.

Phil Evans

NBA teams can be there to monitor (player) development or take part in development. They could work out a player before practice or after practice.

Frank Sacks

More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to monitor it to see if it's effective? There's no monitoring for safety.

Vidal Querol

Monitor well and be ready for any contingency.

Yvonne Smith

We don't do the pill because we don't have any way to monitor what they are taking every day.

Haz Iwendi

We are on red alert. All state commissioners of police are under instructions to monitor developments and prevent any violence.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

William Blake

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

William Butler Yeats

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

Hootie Johnson

We're not worried about Tiger. We're worried about these 17-year-olds.

Ed Comeau

We're not worried about the history. We're not worried about the future.

Byron Sanders

I was worried about them the whole time,

Jack Purtell

I was a little worried going in, but we went in and we were the aggressor.

Chauncey Billups

When he doesn't get right up, you know he's hurting, but I just can't get too worried about that guy. He's just a warrior.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that we've ever even worried about that.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

Rowan Atkinson

I have always worried about things more than I should.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.