Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Edith Wharton

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

David Trimble

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Jamie Oliver

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Greg Wilkins

We are pleased to reach this significant milestone. The powerful combination of these companies will bring the assets, people and projects together to deliver value to all stakeholders.

Rod Thorn

We are pleased to bring Cliff back. He is a seasoned player who defends well in the low post and can also step outside to make a three-point shot.

Ed Huydic

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

Bobby Jackson

We started this really for race relations, to bring people together from all races and to show that people can get along. Before the race we brought about this heritage house to promote unity.

Melissa Gregory

We started talking via e-mail for a couple of months. Then we decided to bring him over for a tryout. From the first time we skated together, we just knew.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Andrew Pantano

We are a full-service caterer that will bring everything to an event from the food to the tables, the liquor, decorations and of course a professional staff.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Alan Tonelson

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

Felix Herrero

We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

Karen Burk

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Stephen Toplis

There is no question the economy is slowing.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Joseph Battipaglia

What happens with Iraq is very important in January and February to pretty much set the tone for how the economy will fare for the rest of the year. So when we have that answer, then you can get your market direction. In the meantime, you essentially move sideways.

Michael Howard

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

Sung Sohn

We're still losing jobs, but the rate of loss is expected to slow, ... That, hopefully, will be viewed that the economy is starting to improve.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Kevin Keen

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Larry Davis

It's kind of a non-issue. If it were in his left side, it would've been more of an issue.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Jeffrey Lichtman

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

Kevin Wright

They stacked the line of scrimmage and then spied Darren. That left nobody on the quarterback. We'll take whatever people will give us.

Kilari Paul

They said 'You get on and go,' and they left him behind.

Pete Johnson

There was no sign of life from the devastation left by Katrina.

Jonathan Klein

There weren't that many options left that made sense for someone of Aaron's stature, ... a mutual decision.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Joni Finney

At first it will be business, then it will be other high-cost majors like nursing and engineering. We're really discouraging people from going into high-demand fields.

Al Rauch

It seems like it's not really a major association,

David Flum

This is a major operation in a high-risk population.

John Thorn

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

Al Becker

It's tough to know how we're going to respond. This is an extraordinarily competitive industry. If something occurs at a major competitor, we'll have to take a look at that.

Tim Sloane

It's not like we haven't seen this before from every major vendor with every major product. I don't think it's going to make all that much of a difference.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Anthony Karydakis

They are confirming in their own subtle way there are some more moves ahead, whether it is one, two or three rises.

Mark DiCamillo

they haven't made any real moves toward organizing a campaign.

Rudy Morrow

Rudy and I would play one-on-one and he would just pick me apart. He would tell me what moves he was going to make and he would still score on me. No one had really pushed me like that before.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

George Whalin

This was life-and-death for them, ... They had to make some moves to make this thing profitable.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Robert A. Heinlein

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Peter Dinklage

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Mark Twain

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Jack Ellis

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

Jackie Rubin

They make sure everything is on the up and up.

Jake McDorman

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

Bill Stokes

Its sure to be one for the books,

Ron Mayers

They are talking about it as if it is over and I'm not sure that that is the case.

John Newman

There will be a new look at these chemicals, I'm not sure there's a lot we can do.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Tom Davies

could not have been in his system the day he testified.

Jason Tapp

We got a lot of work done during break. They really used the system well. They really trust each other now.

Clare Short

There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.