Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Flex Plexico

Prior to returning this detainee to Egypt, the United States received appropriate assurances from the government of Egypt regarding this detainee's treatment upon his return to Egypt. This includes assurances that this individual will continue to be treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international legal obligations, while he remains in Egypt,

Eddie Jones

Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Jen Warden

Defense and rebounding will continue to be the focal point of our development. Obviously, we are working on some offenses that will give us some more options, but defense has a greater presence in our practices than at any other time.

John Challenger

Companies, through their downsizing, continue to take the steam out of the wage inflation engine by cutting people when the pressure gets too high,

Patrick Allen

Despite the prayer vigils, the special services, and the prayers of many mothers and fathers, the ranks of the ruthless and the lawless continue to swell,

Gary Richardson

Despite the loss, it was still an encouraging outing because all six of our varsity golfers improved on their season averages. I hope we can continue to lower our scoring averages.

Mick Cronin

Devan indicated to me in our first telephone conversation that his family wanted him to have options regarding his future. Devan has conveyed to me that he has not made any decisions, only that he wanted to have options. We are communicating daily and will continue to do so. Obviously, we hope Devan decides to remain with our program.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Javier Solana

Despite the many difficulties that lie ahead, the elections mark progress towards a transition to a democratic, free and peaceful Iraq.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

David Platt

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

Confucius

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Ann Richards

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Ron Reagan

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Tom Cruise

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

Michael Chabon

A father is a man who fails every day.

Patricia Arnold

There could have been 20 mothers sitting here.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Thomas Moore

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Lauren Bacall

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Emily Dickinson

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Ayn Rand

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Charles R. Swindoll

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

Delroy Lindo

There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brennan Manning

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

Brennan Manning

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Brennan Manning

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

Andrew Abraham

The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet.

Jimmy Stewart

It ranks right up there at the top,

Jerome Bettis

It was a unique game. It ranks up there. It was crazy.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.