Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Shane Jones

You give a team five runs in an inning well, we didn't give them to (Mountain Crest). We gave them a couple of runs, some runners on base and they came up with big hits.

Michael Fay

the resource base there has been kind of off-limits to the world at large, and now they have a great opportunity to say, 'We really want to think about sustainable development,' and there really are indicators that they want to do this.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

Carlos Garcia

There's nothing I can do. He came to third base with his head down.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

John Sattler

The training we're constantly modifying is based on lessons learned,

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Casey Randolph

This is our biggest win, and to do it with a pin doesn't get any better. But just getting there (Battle Creek) is never good enough. We have to reset our goals now, and we'll do that first thing tomorrow. We had three goals this year -- win a district, set the school record for wins and get to Battle Creek, and we've accomplished those.

Yuriko Koike

This is a ground battle for reform! Let's change Japan!

Chip Kunde

This historic collaboration was instrumental in bringing this long-fought battle to a close. A level playing field will now exist for all competitors, regardless of where their businesses are located.

Mickey Rosenfeld

This is a long-term battle that requires plenty of patience. It won't be decided by 'knock out,' but rather by points.

Joe Nathan

This is a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing of this season. For our team to battle back, for them to do what they did and the way the guys threw before, it was awesome.

Jason Brueschke

This is a company that is now facing a very competitive landscape and the management team, rather than going quietly into that good night, is now going to spend on a costly legal battle with the government.

Edilberto Adan

All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place,

Thomas Bjorn

You can stand on the driving range and battle through it, or you go home and get some perspective on things. I chose the second one and I think it was the best thing I ever did.

Laura Lippman

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Rick Stockstill

On the defensive side of the ball, we signed a couple defensive linemen that are edge type guys who can come off the edge and are athletic. They have good bodies and can get bigger as they work in the weight room.

Menzies Campbell

No party is entirely subject to what happens to any one individual. The party is much bigger than that.

Mike Mathis

No other place except Angelina County can do a rodeo like this and get it done with this much success. Let's make sure this year's is bigger and better than all others.

Jerry Cunningham

Now we have the seniors. Last year, we brought all the seniors to the gym and had a few speakers talk about insurance and savings. This year we decided we would do a bigger program for them.

Jamal Qureshi

Now we have a hurricane heading for the bigger part of the coastal refinery center, threatening to blow a huge hole in products supply.

Glenn Tipton

Now we can play less, and to more people doing bigger venues in America, so that gives us more time, so I have to live in two places.

Mike Carroll

Now that we've stepped it up, it's a bigger rivalry now. It's actually competition now compared to what it used to be.

Jim Kelley

Obviously to increase someone's marketing opportunity, he's maybe going to have to expand his globe a little bigger than down the road to his neighbor.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Chris Farley

We couldn't register everybody. I'm thrilled by just the number of people here. The running community has really come together.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Gary Cowger

It's a fantastic event -- it's very different, ... It's wonderful to see the community come together and support this.

Rob Higgins

There was a lot of question whether they would ever come back. The presence of Florida A&M to this community is extremely important. They are part of the fabric of this community, and we wanted them back.

Camille Ramsey

It's a win-win. It's a way for people to support their community hospital, support St. Luke's while at the same time honoring those who they love.

Nora Hochman

The rate at which the community is signing the petition is steady and doesn't vacillate. It's strong and will stay strong all the way through to the end.

Josefa Nata

We are mindful of the role of the international community in our development. We are also very mindful of the outcry of the international community.

Jeff Raines

We selected Bellingham for our first Washington-area office because it's a medium-sized community that is a perfect match for our expertise and service offerings.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

K.C. Keeler

He went from being a kid we never thought was going to play varsity football to a kid who's one of your better, more dependable offensive linemen who can play at different positions because of injuries or because you want more athleticism. He gives us a lot of flexibility.

Octavio Dotel

I have to respect what they say, but I think I'll be in the game before June. It depends on how I do when I stay here after the season starts.

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.

Sathya Baba

The joy of being the master of senses is far greater than being their slave.

Andrew Marvell

The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find; / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas, / Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.

Dick Vermeil

Their running game can be tough to stop. So far they haven't been humming like it normally is, and you just have to keep them in that mode. They're very patient and persistent and keep doing it.

Eric Skrum

The issuance of traffic tickets is about revenue generation rather than safety. As far as we can tell, there has never been a correlation between traffic tickets and any sort of increase in safety.

CEO Fredericks

The Internet has been the leading growth media or number two. This year it's number two but not very far off.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

William Howard Taft

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

Vincent Van Gogh

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Van Jones

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

Tyrese Gibson

Ive never had to fight hard for anything Ive gotten in the past.

Robert Palmer

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Yasser Arafat

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Mark Calcavecchia

But only because I had to go inside and register,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Tom Izzo

There's no question he's pressing right now and I kind of feel for him.