Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

David Healy

The 1982 team is legendary in Northern Ireland but this match against England is our chance to record a victory of that magnitude,

Mitch Wilkins

That was a key swing there. The breaks just didn't go our way tonight and a few of the calls that went against us really kept us from being able to play our game.

Judy Shaubach

That was a huge win for us against a real quality team. Ashley pitched a very good game and Jocelyn (Medina) came up with the big hit.

Tom Sawyer

That was a huge win for them at their place. Their other two wins came against teams that aren't as good, but they are still wins.

Tina Deese

That was a great first day of SEC play. The key now will be to keep it up Sunday and close out the series with a sweep of Kentucky. That will be a challenge against a hungry Wildcat club.

Chauncey Billups

That was a good win. We had a big win (Tuesday night against Dallas) with a lot of emotion and we were able to push that all aside and focus on this one. That was good by us.

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Brad D. Smith

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

Victoria Osteen

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Stan Magee

The allegations were all baseless, without merit, highly suspect and I am very surprised that the TEA even bothered to get involved in making a judgement call in areas that were governed by our own board operating procedures.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

James So

The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that far today.

Lori Snell

We could not get a hit at the right times. We made crucial errors on defense.

Rich Brands

We have to win this last game, and I feel if we don't win, then we don't deserve to make the playoffs. We have let enough games get by this year, and this one is a crucial game for us. It should be an easy game for our guys to get ready for.

Dave Driggs

We've got six seniors playing a lot, so they should get the boards, they should take over in crucial times like that. University made a great run and they've got nothing to hang their head about.

Joey Adams

We've made pretty good progress. We're the type of offense where when we need to score in crucial situations, we're going to put points on the board.

Carlo Ancelotti

We have to keep going on the way we have over the next games. We have to be ready for the crucial moment in the season.

George Papandreou

We're very proud to be part of the eurozone. But this comes with obligations and it is crucial we show the world we can live up to those obligations.

Robert Gottlieb

'Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?'

Peyton Reed

When you look at Kennedy and Nixon, TV played a crucial part in Kennedy's popularity. He was incredibly photogenic, while Nixon was this scowling figure. American viewers judged him on his appearance on TV.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Lindy Ruff

That was probably the most embarrassing game I've been a part of. The more we tried to do things, the worse it got.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Alex Brink

We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.

Ron Zonen

You just witnessed the worst seven minutes of this boy's life.

Sandy Wright

You just can't take a quarter off. You can't take off two or three minutes in our league. We have to find ways to answer.

John Jay

Where we are right now, I'm going to try and get as many minutes as I can out of each starter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Thomas Dawson

We'd probably have to wake up 15 to 20 minutes earlier.

Greg Gard

Whether you're home, road or neutral, you can't go 8, 9 minutes and not score.

Maurice Jackson

We can't be out there for nearly 20 minutes when there is only 24 minutes in a half.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Tyrone Willingham

There's always going to be that. He hasn't even practiced with the (first or second units). Hopefully, he'll regain it quickly.

Falun Gong

It's been seven years since I practiced it in public,

Allan Ray

I've practiced two times already and the practices were great. My vision is back 100 percent, and I'm ready to get back out there and just play.

Milan Hejduk

We did not win a lot of games. But the tournament really starts with the quarter-finals.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Bill Young

What I think you probably couldn't put on TV, but it starts with a 'B' and starts with an 'S'.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.