Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

A. Johnson

Once we didn't hit a couple of shots, for some reason our girls' confidence went down. There were shots we should have made that just rolled out tonight. East played great defense, but I thought we had some good looks.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Gabe Gross

I've always had great confidence that I can hit at this level - not only hit, but do very well at this level. Hopefully, this good start can lead to good things and a good year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Matt Gaski

This gives us a lot of confidence. Nobody wants to drop five in a row.

Marshall Strickland

This gives us a lot of confidence going into Michigan. Losing on the road was weighing on us early. Lately we've flushed everything out. It's been a great experience.

Tommie Liddell

This gives us a lot of confidence because their pressure was turned up at the end of the game and we were able to withstand it. It gives us confidence that we can play with every team. I never saw a zone defense you could not penetrate. It was very difficult to throw it inside but fortunately we were able to hit from outside.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Barbara Jordan

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Baha'u'llah

It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.

Bashar al-Assad

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Bashar al-Assad

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

Bashar al-Assad

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Brian Henson

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

Carine Roitfeld

Enthusiasm is something so positive.

Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Dylan Moran

If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

M. Wolfe

But there is also an enthusiasm factor. Stoning the pillars is the last rite of hajj, and throwing the stones can be a physical release. People really want to get into it,

Francis Picabia

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

Felix Baumgartner

I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.

Henry Moore

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

Eric Boyle

Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Robert Penn Warren

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Rachel Steer

Oh my goodness! I just noticed they said she was sick, and I saw her last night ? and she didn't look like she was getting sick.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work. I can't wait. I have the greatest job in the world.

David Goldstein

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?

Armand Salmon

The tiniest of sparks can kindle the greatest of fires.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

James Darren

One thing I don't do is, I don't listen to Sinatra before I record or before I go out live. Because if I did, I'd have to say, "What am I doing?" I couldn't listen to the greatest singer in the world and try to go out there and sing. I'd be too depressed.

Michael Flatley

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

M. Wolfe

Now we're tied with two of the greatest shows of all time,

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Tony Dungy

As soon as I saw it I smiled, because I knew that's what he was responding to.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Corazon Aquino

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory