Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moshe Sharett

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Dwight Davis

They're taking a more intimate role, and not depending solely on partners to give that support. It is a response to backlash from customers who wanted Microsoft to have more of a role there, to stand as the ultimate backstop for support.

Rahul Bajaj

There will be a backlash from those who don't benefit from the system.

Jeanne Allen

There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.

Peter Ratcliffe

Any wear that does eventually occur in the screw or nut is compensated by the nut which adjusts automatically to maintain a zero backlash over a very long service life.

Steve Kernkraut

The September numbers were generally on track, there were pockets of strength and there were some weaknesses. The numbers overall were not horrendous, but overall certainly the outlook could have more of a negative backlash from the higher oil prices.

Craig Aaron

This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding.

Richard Yamarone

Up until now, we haven't seen any backlash to record prices at the pump from consumers, but now the story is changing,

Damon Lindelof

There was a lot of backlash at the end of the first year that we were just stalling and not satisfying people.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Heather Williams

The point of it is to get people to sign it. We really want to give individuals their chance to voice their support.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Joe Toy

We've already hit some plateaus in the last few months, and in 2006 we are going to see things moderating. But even with that, hotels are going to be full and there will be a good chance of a record year in room numbers.

Wayne Rooney

We've a better chance than last season, said Sir Alex.

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.

Don Young

This day is a truly momentous day for users of our nation's transportation infrastructure.

Carl Tobias

It is a momentous decision, and they need more time to think about it.

Bertie Ahern

It is a momentous day for the people of these islands, north and south.

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Gretchen Dykstra

It's a momentous day. It's not a day of celebration.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.