Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Long

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

George Young

Another rule: I took pictures of what intrigued me, but I didn't alter the pictures on the computer except to crop. And there are almost no people; it's more about scenery.

Venkaiah Naidu

As far as the successor's selection is concerned, we are holding consultations and have almost arrived at a name.

Bill Joy

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

Mark Schneider

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

Wendy Gordon

As hard as it was being away from (my family), I really felt like that's where I needed to be. You almost feel guilty coming home because they have to stay and live it for who knows how long. So, whatever relief we could give was an amazing experience for us.

Gary Barnett

as good of a practice as we've had on a Wednesday. We had good spirit and executed very well. It feels like we're almost there.

Shamir

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

John Evans

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

Mark Gulseth

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.

Dr. Gershman

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

Jim Hayes

No self-respecting cow would graze here and I wouldn't blame her,

Todd Turcotte

After the emotional drain of last night, we really struggled to come out ready to play. I guess I have to take the blame for that because we were simply not ready. It was a good effort, we just weren't prepared at the start of the game.

Ed Yardeni

After rounding up all the usual bearish suspects to blame for the market's disappointing performance this year, I've narrowed the problem to the price of oil. Investors fear that higher energy costs must eventually depress earnings growth.

Tom Donohue

Companies simply don't want to come to a state where they think they'll be the target of frivolous lawsuits, or even worse, won't get a fair shake if they are sued. Can you blame them?

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

Scot McCloughan

The thing that stands out the most is a big-time playmaker on offense. Brandon (Lloyd) has made some big plays, and he has the potential to be a good receiver, but you don't have the guy who's the go-to guy on third down and he's going to make the play. That's the one thing that stands out the most. There are good football players here, but the depth wasn't as much as you'd like. There was a reason they had the record that they had. You don't blame all that on the coaching." ()

Ryan Smyth

Once you got a lead that late in the game you've got to do the smart things. I'll take the blame on that one. I turned it over and it ended up in our net.

Mary Jordan

Sometimes things happen around here and you know, we get blamed for it.

Kevin Durkin

Every time this has happened, in my view, Metra has blamed the victim.

E. P. Thompson

Every time the taxes went up, we got blamed for it. But our tax rate at the school district hasn't changed over a decade.

Anthony Shaffer

There was a feeling ... if we give this information to the FBI and something goes wrong, we're going to get blamed for whatever goes wrong,

Fadel Gheit

Obviously, if they had cut production more, prices would have probably moved higher, and that would have curtailed economic growth, ... They want to make sure they will not be blamed for any economic slowdown in the second half of this year.

Larry Lopez

They just kinda blamed each other. 'That's not ours,' the city says, 'that's not ours.' The state said, 'that's not ours.' It hasn't been done.

Karson Klass

We played our hearts out in the game before that and we didn't have anything left. I blamed myself (for the loss).

Greg Brunner

A senior should hit that shot, and I didn't. Nothing else I can say about that.

Peter Wright

As a team, we're starting to hit our stride. I think we're playing the type of tennis we need to be at this time of year.

Jason Boone

As a whole they need to hit the weight room, ... We were outrebounding them by huge margins every game.

Keith Andrews

The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Roger Clemens

A very hittable pitch, ... When a guy's at this level, it doesn't matter if he's 21 or 41. He's going to hit that.

John Pescatore

Back then, it was more a reaction to all these worms and viruses that would hit Windows, and Microsoft would get yelled at. Symantec's stock price would go up every time there was a virus.

Sergio Garcia

That was a big hit on my head. She was a lovely person, very caring.

Tom King

That was a big hit for us. It was pretty much the answer. When Blackwell got that hit, it really got us going.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

Olympia Snowe

Just because we have different views, that doesn't mean that we lack principles.

Justin Taylor

I think development has been stifled for 40 years because of a lack of parking,

Craig Montgomery

I think everyone was surprised at the lack of crowds. There was no one in the neighborhood.

O. J. Simpson

I saw a total lack of concentration. I'm at a loss as to why we didn't make the adjustments that we talked about.

Calvin Coolidge

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Julie Burchill

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Liz Ryan

Are they all 50-year-old white men? Did they all come from the same set of companies?

Samuel Barnett

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Bible Bible

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Lindsey Graham

putting too much pressure on the men and women in uniform.

Confucius

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Plautus

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Gertrude Stein

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Astro Teller

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Hugh Hopper

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Joy Fielding

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.