Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Egeland

We haven't accomplished anything yet. (Today's) an even bigger game because it's a game in hand we have with Austin. We have to go out with the same intensity, the same mindset.

Benet Wilson

We haven?t completely put it aside, but it is on the back burner, and there?s no talk of when it is coming back, or if it is coming back. We have bigger priorities right now.

Gordon Smith

The predicate for this entire budget ... is the tobacco settlement. There isn't a bigger question mark in this Congress right now than whether that will ever occur.

Steve Yzerman

(The Predators) are obviously our primary competition for the division and it was a chance to really open up a bigger gap and make it more difficult for them to catch us. We're more comfortable.

Sibel Kekilli

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.

Michael Koskuba

The quarter came in strong, but the bigger question is how they'll do in ensuing quarters. That's what investors are focusing on.

David Chavern

The push to prosecute companies and make the next settlement bigger than the last has taken on a life of its own.

Will Hubertz

We all realize we have bigger and better things to accomplish.

Steve Bauer

We know it works. This is just bigger than anything else.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Professor Jafar

So long as they don't threaten a nuclear exchange, some differences between India and Pakistan do not worry the Americans. Pakistanis also tend to expect too much from the Americans on such perennial issues as Kashmir.

Conrad Lautenbacher

So I would expect two to three perhaps striking the United States,

Tom Sanvik

She was the difference. When you outshoot a team 2-1, and get nearly 40 on net, you would expect some to go in.

Dom Capers

Obviously, that's something we have to get corrected. When you put yourself in such a hole and give up that much hidden yardage, you can't expect to win.

John Toshack

Obviously match fitness is something else but that's a problem we have had since this season started. We would expect to start with him.

Peter Kennedy

Nobody wants to be having this vote so in that regard there is not a lot of good feeling, but I expect it will be ratified.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Dirk Benedict

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Joshua Bell

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Tony Glover

Coo Coo was a tough man who worked hard at everything he did,

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Aleksandr Lebed

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

Mike Powell

And were that to happen, it would be the first operating loss in BA's history. It's something they would be working very hard to avoid,

Travis Bradberry

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Jennifer Hale

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Tony Dungy

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Pico Iyer

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

Pico Iyer

Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.

Mike Pence

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Mike Krzyzewski

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

Mike Krzyzewski

Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

Paula McLain

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Paula White

When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve?

Theodore Dreiser

The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

Margaret Mead

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

Kin Hubbard

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Michael Lewis

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Michael Owen

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

Michael Parenti

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Maya Lin

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Matt Walsh

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Meg Whitman

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Marian Keyes

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

Al Alvarez

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.