Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Carl Icahn

I think you would now agree that this would have achieved a far superior result for stockholders,

Dave Loos

I think the big thing about Chuck is he has done this all behind the scenes with very little fanfare. Yet all of these athletes could not have achieved any of their goals without him and the people that work for him.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Chad Spalding

Jake pitched a great game. It's a shame we let them back in it. It's good that Tyler was able to get his first win because he showed that he can bounce back from a bad inning. That's pretty good for an eighth grader.

Jim Calhoun

I would say our defense got us going, but it certainly wasn't the key to the game because I thought we let up many, many times. They all elevate. It hides sometimes bad defense. That was my concern tonight, the fact they were penetrating, particularly in the second half.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Barbara Turner

I would say (it's a must-win). You don't ever want to put a game in that situation, but realistically we need to come out with a big victory in order to keep ourselves in that elite class with the top teams in the country. So far we've looked really bad and then we came close. Now it's time to jump over that hump and get a win.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

Naomi Campbell

Kate Moss is my friend...I think it's like everybody is being bad to her. It's not the first time it has happened in the world...it's really like a vendetta.

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Karen Braswell

He lasted about two days and then we had to make that signature decision.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

James Rubin

What we've seen in the last three days is how emotional those small pieces of real estate can be for the Palestinians and Israelis.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Michel Therrien

I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.

Mark Zeller

I think that it shows that the people have trust in the direction the school district is going in, and they would like to see it continue.

Ryler DeHeart

It is just another stepping stone in the right direction for this team.

Jim Sterk

Last year, I let Tony and Dick know what my intentions were and this summer I put it into writing so there would be no question about the direction of the program.

Pat O'Connor

Judge O'Flaherty's rulings are putting drunk drivers back out on the street. It's a threat to public safety. It's offensive to law enforcement and prosecutors and it's offensive to the public.

Tom Crumpacker

It all starts with (varsity coach) Joey Montoya. It's his passion, style and drive to make this program successful. All Bryson and I have to do is follow the pattern Joey has laid out for us.

H. Hart

He was a big, gentle man, quiet and kind, and the hardest worker I ever knew. He would work on the roads, then he would go out and pull his pots, and then he would drive the taxi at night.

Jack Roush

He's as cold-blooded as any driver I've ever worked with,

David Solin

I think it's just really hangover from that. The issue of U.S. interest rates and where we're going has been a pretty important driver for the dollar.

Allison Duncan

Whatever this test leads to is still unknown right now, but I will always be able to say that I got to drive an RCR Busch car, which very few people can say,

Liem Nguyen

We transitioned our lineup away from hard drives to focus on flash players.

Rick Vrhovac

We've got to make teams drive the length of the field. It just has to be done.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Yoweri Museveni

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.

Maggie Smith

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Jim Anderson

We didn't know anything about this population anymore. We didn't know who was there. We didn't know if it was an elderly population or a sick population. We didn't know if they had any education.

Robert A. Heinlein

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Mason Cooley

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Scott Burns

Basically, all the forces that can enlarge the retired elderly population are in overdrive. The forces that would expand the younger (and working) population paying for Social Security and Medicare taxes are in reverse. The result is a kind of perfect demographic storm,

David Sinclair

If this really has a physiological role in normal elderly people then it's a huge deal.

Herbert Gold

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Chris Lilley

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Go not, happy day,/ From the shining fields,/ Go not, happy day,/ Till the maiden yields.

Ray Elliott

He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey, ... We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Billy Donovan

I don't know about him for next game. It's inside his lip. He's probably going to have to get it stitched up.

Vinny Castilla

I didn't like school a whole lot because I would rather be outside playing than inside studying, ... I played with my friends and my family, and we always played sports. That's how it was back then and I'm still playing today.

Tom Funk

If you want to witness what's going on inside the mind of Robert, take a look at his rig, and then take a look at it in a year, because it'll be better.

Frank Robinson

If you have nothing to say then say it, ... It's no big deal. I can't get inside his head.

Brian Boitano

If you are on the inside of skating, you sort of understand it. But not quite.

P. J. O'Rourke

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

Seth MacFarlane

I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?

Stephanie Cravens

Lack of understanding about roles/responsibilities results in violation of statutes on board's part.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Greg Krikorian

The situation demonstrated the lack of leadership within the team.

Frank Fahrenkopf

There is no integrity, because of a lack of law enforcement and regulatory control,

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Susan Kalla

The problem is they all have the same issue: lack of spending.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Katrina Kaif

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

Kate Bush

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Andy Serkis

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

John Stocco

He's a little out there. I love the guy, though.

Carl Jackson

He's been there for me when I needed him. He's like a brother. We just have a love for one another.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

John Roberts

I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,

Dave Scott

He was popular and a well-liked young man here.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Neale Donald Walsch

Act only in Love. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.

Jose Carreras

I am always living very good moments.

Khaled Hosseini

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Khaled Hosseini

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

Mahatma Gandhi

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Lynn Margulis

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Barbara Ryan

You've got to give product away in Africa, ... There's a natural arbitrage where the prices get pressure around the world.

Epictetus

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Jacques Chirac

I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,

Tom Sneddon

It's natural ... why don't you do the same?

Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Khaled Mashaal

As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right.

Khaled Meshal

As long as we are under occupation then it is our right to resist.

W. S. Gilbert

A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!

Abdul Salam

The results of the referendum were not surprising as the whole process is supervised and protected by the US occupation forces,

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Confucius

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

John Ashbery

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Richard Sanchez

I just talked the whole time and didn't let them rest,

Sarah Brown

I kind of got sucked in, like the rest of the American public,

Meg Mallon

I'm going to take the saddle and spurs off, and let Rosie have a rest.

James Forrestal

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

Nick Swisher

You can't really look at what other teams are doing. The rest of the season's in our hands.

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Maria Shriver

I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Milan Kundera

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

Norman Vincent Peale

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!

Moby

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Bill Walsh

We aren't willing to concede it won't be ready.