Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Marvel Kellogg

We are working to get it set up for her to work at the clinic for six months. As an offshoot of the clinic this would be a wellness component.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Dave Allison

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Bill Rocco

Tech is a big part of emerging markets coming back.

Judy Reyes

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Marc Prokosch

Sometimes, coming to a place where everyone knows you can get you into trouble.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Andee Whitaker

I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We will win some and of course we will lose some, but I hope we will have the dedication and drive.

Paul McGinley

I knew it was four days, there was no cut this week, and I knew the way the course was playing, the scores would come back a little bit. Anything around par was a good score.

Paul Goldstein

I knew Paul is a tough man and he's grinding everything. I was thinking, 'Why isn't every week a tournament here in Houston?' I'm happy to be here in the finals and of course I want to get my first (career) title.

Jeff Nobers

I'm not going to sit here and say we'll increase by 100,000 or 200,000, but there is room to expand. The course can handle 60-70,000 on a daily basis.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited to be here. It's great to be back as a defending champion. I think the golf course is in as good shape as I've ever seen it. I think that makes it even more special. I think I'm as ready as I can be.

John Daly

I love this Open, I love Scotland and this is one of my favorite courses in the world,

Steve Flesch

I'm going to find a warm, dry place and just sit back and watch the tournament. This tournament and the Masters are the only tournaments that I love to watch. Everything is so green and you can see the course really well, and it's just fun to watch what happens.

Annika Sorenstam

The first time I saw (the 10 under) was on my sixth hole when I saw she was 10 under. I actually had to look twice. I thought she was on the 10th hole. What can I say, it was a fantastic round. This golf course is not easy.

Sharon Stone

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Joe Girardi

The WBC will provide a lot of excitement, so it's a good thing, but I'm going to miss my players, no doubt about it.

Bertrand Russell

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Edward Abbey

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

Mike Schulze

We've got a good plan in place. It's going to come together, there's no doubt in our minds. It'll be a lot of work for a lot of people.

Greg Biffle

We got ourselves into a little hole in Daytona. But I have no doubt this team will turn it around this weekend.

Tony Robbins

If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it.

Reggie Watts

When in doubt, zoom out.

Michael Pitt

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

Sylvia Hatchell

She has a passion for it, there's no doubt about that. And it's contagious. ... She makes people happy.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Hillary Clinton

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Kevyn Adams

All that doesn't matter now. They're going to try to take something we want. Now it comes down to us being focused and really ready to go.

David Schneider

Everyone else is tweaking and here I come in and I have to start from scratch. If we don't get me up to speed then the show can't go up, and everyone is focused on the show.

Justin Verlander

It's great for another young guy, another good pitcher to match up against. But like I've said many times, it doesn't really matter who's on the other mound. I'm focused on what I can do.

Michael Miller

It's something to be said for people who would just load up on their time off. They're focused on getting it done.

Daisuke Takahashi

It's time to get myself focused on skating again. Having a high goal to shoot for is good for me, so hopefully I'll win a place on the podium -- any of the top three.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Dax Maier

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.

Dave Baron

Team unity. We've got a great relationship between all the guys here.

Ernie Accorsi

Teams that dominated, that won multiple Super Bowls, all had great quarterbacks.

Spike Lee

Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.

Michael Jacobson

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Jim Soukup

The whole project should take about two weeks.

David Bowers

One of the things that stands out about this project is how it was funded.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

David Blunkett

I've had a guide dog since 1969. Not the same one, of course: I've had five.

Bill Smith

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.