Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Peck

I think we always have that opportunity. This team has demonstrated we are capable of accepting a challenge.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Barbara Spiegel

In the big city you get a little bit more of the mocking, staring and the 'hey look' stuff, ... Here, it's so small and accepting it didn't faze anybody.

Mikaela Shiffrin

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

John Barry

In the financial markets you are paid for accepting risk. There is more reason to take risk now mainly because people who have taken the risk over the past five years have been richly rewarded.

Elizabeth Anderson

I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Jane Friedman

I think it's a great attempt to popularize the book business, and boy, do we need it. It's a good thing, as we try to expand our readers, to put the public into this. I think it's important to have the consumer not only buy the book, but confirm that this is the best book of the year.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

George Dunlap

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

John M. Smith

I think it's just a desperate attempt because ain't nobody looking for him, and nobody really expects to see him.

Derek Brown

It complements what Yahoo! is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.