Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Linda McMahon

Making these operations more efficient is critical to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our proprietary product offerings,

David Allen

So in order to achieve clarity and be fully and positively engaged in what you're doing, you must (1) know the goal or outcome you're intending and (2) decide and take the next physical move to propel you in that direction.

Hal Brown

Solid financial results and excellent prospects for future success enable us to continue our long history of consistent dividend payments for our shareholders. We continue to achieve success in our core business activities especially the growth in loans, which becomes the foundation for our future earnings prospects and provides the capability to provide dividend increases such as we're announcing today.

Eugene Debs

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

Kitty Collins

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Sean Rushton

Nothing better exemplifies the chasm of difference between how the left and the right think about the courts. The wisdom we want is the wisdom to defend the structure of our system for everyone. What they're really saying is that the judge should bend or break the law in order to achieve a favorable short-term result.

Bobby Kielty

Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

B. R. Hayden

Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.

Bernard Boudreaux

The Saints are bearing the entire financial burden of playing here at Tiger Stadium. Everything. We don't expect to lose anything at all. We're ensured against any loss whatsoever and against wear and tear on the stadium and the field.

Lucie Safarova

I've never played against her (Schnyder) so I can't say how I'll go.

Mikael Silvestre

It would be a big thrill to play against him, ... It is my country versus his country, and I know how proud Roy is to play for Ireland.

Tim McGee

It would be like jumping off a train at 85 mph. It's almost impossible to even win a single ball game against some of these schools that have been playing for years.

Lakhdar Brahimi

I understand even the excesses that can happen once you start fighting against injustice, not to condone it but to understand how you get there.

Anton Balasingham

It would serve no meaningful purpose if we enter into a recriminatory debate, making accusations and counter-accusations against each other over the abuses of the truce.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Keith Cooper

I'm disappointed we didn't come out and be the aggressors. By the time we woke up and got after them, it was too late.

Sasha Alexander

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Neale Donald Walsch

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.