Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Jacob Lew

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Manfred von Richthofen

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Paul Ryan

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Muhammad Ali

My toughest opponent has always been me.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

Miyamoto Musashi

When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

Jim Bunning

I think their records should all be wiped out.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Samuel Beckett

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

Samuel Beckett

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Robert Pattinson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Rod Keogh

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Seth Payne

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

Chris Connolly

He needs to train well, but it is probably doubtful to be honest. We'll give him every opportunity, he is desperate to play. It is probably less than 50-50.

Trent Reznor

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

John Kirkwood

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Melanie Morgan

I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still didn't want to stop.

Paul Fronstin

These are a sign of how desperate we've become.

Mary Schuyler

And it wouldn't be a Desperate Housewives game if you couldn't try to steal a neighbor's husband, too.

Trent Hunter

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.