Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

(Day's) command was poor. His changeup was too hard. He threw a lot of changeups that were not squaring up.

Curt Schilling

I used all my pitches like I did as a starter and we located well. I had good command and I pitched.

Michael Brown

You see, I get it when it comes to incident command systems, ... I get it when it comes to emergency management. I know what it's all about.

Eric Roberts

There is a simple, three-step way of doing things. Give the dog a simple command - just one word, no rambling on - and explain what you have done and get the result. For example, tell the dog to sit, push its rear down and then give him lots of praise when he does it. He'll get it in the end.

Tyra Banks

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

Martin Scorsese

Etta James' voice is just as commanding as it was when she was young, but it's different -- deeper, tougher. How could it not be? That's what life can do to you.

Doug Waechter

As soon as it gets cooler out you feel like you want to hit somebody. It's just a game that you can't really forget. I mean it's so much fun getting the pads on and practicing with all the guys. You go into game day and all the excitement about it. The band's playing, just getting in there. Being able to throw passes and command an offense. I mean, everything about it. I love it. I love the sport.

Mark Shapiro

At some point this year he's going to help us in the bullpen. He's come a long way in the last year and had a good training camp. He just needs to work on commanding his fastball better.

John Powell

Communications is the linchpin. You can't have command and control without communications.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Dan Ariely

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Andrew Motion

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Brett Favre

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

Barbara Jordan

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Barbara Jordan

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Bashar al-Assad

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar al-Assad

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Jamie Foxx

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Andrea Tantaros

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

Andrew Sullivan

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

Steve Silverthorn

I've always said when you start thinking, that's when you screw yourself up. You've got to quit with the thinking and just stay in the moment.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

Jerry Glanville

You've got to stop their weapons and they have weapons everywhere. You have to have all weapons accounted for. I think we're ready to go.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Larry Pleau

Until he tells us he's ready ... We'll see what he says on Sunday.

Joe Girardi

We'll just kind of wait to see how he feels. If he says he is ready to go, he's ready to go.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Edward Young

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Randy Travis

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.