Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Malin

I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior.

Earl Campbell

I've learned that it's something that's never going to escape me, ... I've accepted it. That's no disrespect to my father, because I'm very proud to say that I'm Earl Campbell's son and nothing makes me happier. (But) I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and just be Tyler Campbell without people saying right away, 'You're Earl Campbell's son.' 

Richard Cobb

I've always thought this city was so beautiful, but the litter has given it a black eye. People have accepted it as our new reality and look at it as a problem that's bigger than they can handle. This is the mentality I'm working to change.

M. Wolfe

I wanted the experience to be the head coach of the track program, so I accepted the offer.

Diane Dean

I wanted to get involved in some theater group. I came down and tried out and they accepted me.

Hamid Hayat

advised the (witness) that he genuinely desired to attend a camp and strongly indicated in his final conversation with the (witness) that he had been accepted to 'training' and was going to attend the same after Ramadan in 2003.

Mike Verrill

The older guys have accepted the young kids and see what they can do. I think that had to happen.

Rick Parry

After considerable thought and discussion the board have decided to part company with the manager and Gerard has accepted it with typical good grace.

Frank Rizzo

After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Warren Farrell

And the reason that is ridiculous is because if you're approaching a problem with a lose-lose situation, you're creating a bigger and bigger problem.

Kate Johnson

An electrician was called and ultimately determined that (the) problem was bigger than a blown fuse or two.

Bill Cohen

Anything technical or scientific that the soldiers say they need, any capability gap they need filled or any tools they say they need, I provide them with, ... It turned out that the MARCBOT plays a bigger part in the improvised explosive devices fight than a lot of people had thought.

Robert Douglas

The sizes of homes keep getting bigger and bigger. We are looking for ways to control the size.

David Parsons

The size of the athletes, especially in the line of scrimmage, are bigger and stronger,

George H. W. Bush

The size and scope is bigger than anything we've ever seen.

Michael Strauss

The sell-off in the bond markets, not only here, but in global bonds, is scaring a lot of investors. At the same time, we are seeing a rotation from some of last year's bigger gainers, such as the energy companies, and people are just taking profits on those big names.

Dave Cole

The sole goal is to get on a person's machine in very silent fashion, disable anti-virus software and then download its bigger brother.

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Carlton Cuse

The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their living rooms just about the time people are saying it. We thought everyone's expectation would be for her to have a black husband. We wanted to confound everyone's expectation. Everyone would be looking for the 50-year-old black guy.

C. C. H. Pounder

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Saffron Aldridge

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

Jeremy Mayfield

I've always wanted to run a black car, ... They just look cool, especially under the lights for a night race. I like to operate in stealth mode, and maybe they won't see me coming in the black Dodge Charger. Hopefully I can drive right by them to the front of the field.

Joanna Lumley

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

John Sayles

The movie starts on a broader level, with black humor. But when you realize the joke is on us, it's not so funny.

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Greg Thomas

Development in Cleveland continues at a robust pace. Only three times in history has the city permitted at least $70 million in construction activity, and those three years have come consecutively.

Angela Allen

Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying city streets, parks and other public spaces to count the number of street homeless.

Tanya Vanasse

A one-seat ride to Penn Station truly makes us a real option for New York City passengers.

David Major

Any place you look in this city you will see the ghost of intelligence collection.

Councilman Ficklin

Any money that comes to this city ... is needed to keep us afloat.

Mark Wigley

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

William Butler Yeats

And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.

Don Maestri

Anything that can distract from it is good. The overall impact will last a long, long time. It will take the city itself five to 10 years to rebuild, despite the positive reports that are coming from the media.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Capt. Moad

Some witnesses have given us information that leads us to say that could be a possibility. Until we get confirmation from a doctor, though, we can't speculate.

David Ferrer

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

Juan Cole

Perhaps that's why he was given such a good reception.

Atharva Veda

Satisfied and satiated, I remain steady within my heart, and now, I do not waver at all. The True Guru has given me the inexhaustible treasure; it never decreases, and never runs out.

Atharva Veda

Says Nanak, the Truth has been revealed to me. The Guru has given me the treasure; I have taken it and enshrined it within my heart.

Jon Gruden

The Saints have given us problems in the past.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Kevin Parker

He's fearless. We think he's going to make it because he has the mentality of (Panthers receiver) Steve Smith.

Mark McKechnie

The 'warring tribes' mentality isn't working for them.

Mariano Rivera

We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

Dave Mills

This year's team is a new team. But that is not the mentality our competitors will have (against) us.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Matt Smith

People think snow is the sole reason we go out, and it's a total misnomer.

Jennifer Lee

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Lauri Ward

People think it's going to make the room look bigger, but it's going to make it look worse.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Craig Newmark

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Jack Gillis

Our sense is that people don't have enough put away for a rainy day.

Lee Miller

Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Michael Boyd

Delta's problem is not labour, it's debt. Until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

Benjamin Raich

I've always been strong in slalom. This season I've had some trouble finishing, but that wasn't a problem today.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

Christopher Williams

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

Pat Duffy

This isn't a problem of one district. It's a problem of many districts.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.