Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

David Brady

I think 25 basis points is pretty much factored in,

Martha Stewart

If possible, include any memorable experiences you have had with me to explain the basis of any expressed opinion(s).

Dan Speckhart

I recognize some people are frustrated perhaps that it's not moving as fast as they would like but the basis is there.

Chuck D.

We've been very fortunate not to be a 'firecracker band' that blows up and goes away.

Ray Evernham

It just blows me away. For the honor to come from people who know the business means a lot more than anything else you'll ever get. This means a great deal to me.

Martin Brodeur

We got used to not having him around. We really have a sense of what it's going to be like without Scott Stevens. At the same time we're going to have to learn about life without Scott Niedermayer, too. It's two tough blows to take if Scott (Stevens) doesn't come back.

Michael Axelrod

Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with everybody else.

Kevin Sheedy

Some decisions I am not just sure on and when the whistle blows I am not sure what is going to happen.

John Burton

One guy just hangs on the horn as he blows through the city. This is not only a quality of life but a health issue.

Jim Letten

Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.

Bryan Huie

Every donation was from the community. It's unbelievable down here. It just blows my mind, the kind of support we have.

Mitch Bainwol

Digital sales are finally replacing physical losses. If someone gets a distribution right without paying for it, that blows a hole in the digital marketplace.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Allan Ray

I think we fed off our defense a little more in the second half, and we got into a flow offensively as a result.

Bob Hiester

I thought our defense played very, very well.

Tim Bennett

I think we took a positive step tonight. We reduced the penalties and the turnovers and it looked like the defense was getting to the football.

Brian Rafalski

I think we still have a pretty solid defense one through six.

Brian Billick

I think what this defense did this season was diminished by people taking shots at who we played late in the season,

Dom Capers

I think what it comes down to, no matter what defense you're in, it's a matter of players going out and making plays. I think many times (the scheme) is overrated.

Brad Childress

I think that every defense has some element of it. Some people have more tied into it as a staple. This would be one team that is tied into it as a staple.

Teri Barbera

We have no idea who fired the fatal shot.

Paul Pate

Could you imagine reducing our fatality rates by 60 percent?

Mike Woods

We just finished 2005 without a fatality in Illinois. We haven't had one for two consecutive years. That's the first time since records started being kept in 1882 that's been accomplished.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

Aidan Gillen

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Darren McCarty

Guys are always banged up. Guys are always playing with something, if not five or six things. It's just a way of life.

Jon Gruden

It comes down to a lot of things, really. Are you going to keep five or six? What can they do on special teams? We do feel pretty good about the progress we've seen in these young guys.

Gary Player

I thought when I get to 70, I would be sitting on the ranch and doing less, and I'm doing more. I would say, with all things equal, five more years.

Sir Greenstock

I think (the insurgency) has got at least five years of life, because there are men and there are materials.

Chris Quinn

What'd we lose, five in a row? In all my life, I don't think I've ever been on a team that lost five in a row, so just to get the winning taste back in my mouth is good.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Chenzira Kahina

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Eric Holder

I don't have any intention of resigning.

Brian Billick

It's our intention to live up to the contract.

Sean Benson

That is our intention. We want to get the lake back, if possible.

Alan Cohen

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Moby

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

John LaChance

The intent to shoot 'someone' is insufficient for premeditation.

Mark Scheibe

The intent is to have the rates set at such a level that (the lane) doesn't get overcrowded -- that's the purpose of a having a variable rate.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

William Zinsser

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woody Allen

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

William James

You can't out-perform your self-image.