Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.

Sandra Floyd

I've never been out of the country and don't care to go out of the country, ... I am concerned that I am accepting responsibility for letting them go and something happens to them. I don't mind them going, I just don't want to be responsible for it.

Robert Gottlieb

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

George Hamilton

Now, if that's your boyfriend, that's all right, I'm a very accepting person. I'm very understanding.

Bill Cosby

Thank you for remembering me. I'm also happy to be accepting this trophy before I become incontinent.

Jinny Sims

Teachers have spoken clearly. We will not be bullied into accepting another legislated contract that doesn't meet the needs of our students and doesn't respect our rights as workers.

Leonard Leo

Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so. That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.

Aundrae Allison

It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.

Charles Thomson

I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting that it would do so when the time was right.

Anthony Crescenzi

Rubin said that it is too early to talk about a Brazil rescue plan,

Paul Rogers

Brazil is no stranger to economic calamity. This is a blip.

David Hartley

Brazil has been a disaster from the get-go. It's not a surprise they sold it, and it's not a surprise they didn't get much for it.

Adriana Lima

I'm from San Salvador. It is small compared to Sao Paolo. We are really slow there. People work half a day and then go to the beach. People have time.

Abdelwahab Abdallah

They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.

Marta

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

George Grey

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

Jens Nordvig

This trend where the Chilean peso has weakened with Brazil and Mexico doesn't really have anything to do with Chile at all. We think it's a very good entry point.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Al Jarreau

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Steve Ball

We had some difficulty matching up with them in transition in the second half, but our offense was balanced, and we've shown we can play with anyone.

David Payne

There is no intention to increase the difficulty level.

Marc Touati

The recovery remains very fragile. Consumption slowed, investments are still subdued, and exports are having difficulty picking up.

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Steve Spurrier

Give them credit, they kicked our tails. No lead is safe for us.

Roger Tamraz

If they kicked me out the door, ... I would go through the window.

Butch Pierre

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.

Ryan Dunn

I'm Ryan Dunn, and I'm about to get the sh*t kicked out of me by a girl.

Elaine Youngs

I kicked myself about that afterward. I just eased up and didn't go for it like I usually do.

Ben Barnes

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

Steve Donner

We've kicked around the idea of putting together a local fund. There's no plan in place, no concept.

Jason Gibson

You have to be positive about it. Some weeks you get your butt kicked and some weeks you do the butt-kicking. That's what makes this league fun.

Ben Agosto

We weren't sure that we were even going to be here. To now be here and have a medal around our neck, it's amazing.

Jeffrey Buttle

I stood there (on the medal podium) in disbelief. It was a really special moment. I wouldn't have been there without (my parents).

Jeremy Bloom

It really isn't about winning the medal for me.

Connie Thomason

It provides money for shirts, medals and ribbons.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Elizabeth Pisani

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

John Oates

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

Jimmy Johnson

You have a writer trying to write things that you would say, and you have to make it sound like what you would say. Fortunately, I am playing myself, so I can turn to the writers and say, 'I would do it like this,' and they are OK with that.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

O. Winston

We know it's going to be on us, but we're OK with that,

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Callie Thorne

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

Joe Peel

She understands the severity of what's going on down there and that those people need help, ... She's OK with it.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Bob Ladouceur

The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.

Donna Cowing

I've always played for him. I think about him every day.

Johnny Marr

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Shane Warne

The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in.

London Fletcher

After a victory like that it's great, but it's also sad because you think this is the team we could have been all season long and we could have played like this in other games.

John Sebastian

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

Robert Corn

Ten turnovers is a big key. I'll take 10 every time out. We played unselfish basketball.

Greg Baudo

Right now, we're playing better than we've ever played before.