Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Johnson

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

Jonathan Eunice

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

Johan Bruyneel

It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.

Elizabeth Ramsey

There was nothing calculated or premeditated about this crime. It's simply the uncontrollable passion of a young man taken a step too far.

Chris Soule

There's definitely a thrill-seeking part of it. There's calculated risk. We're not throwing ourselves down the hill. Every once in a while I'll scare myself on a mountain bike. I've done things my parents shouldn't know about.

Duncan Hunter

At least the risks that we take are calculated risks, ... You see the complete picture and are able to walk down from there.

Tom Roberge

It was a slow tempo game. Everybody was in everybody's face. It was very calculated defensive play.

Arjuna Mahendran

It will be a good thing if they pull this off. It was a calculated move and they were worried about what they did in 2000 when they prematurely raised rates.

Patti Thompson

It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

David Horowitz

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Jeff Gundy

There is no question that he will be competitive and high energy. But how effective he would be, really, I don't have any idea. We'll have to see.

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Lennon Parham

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Oscar Michelen

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Alberto Fujimori

With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,

S. Walker

We're still at a point where we don't want to be. Obviously, we've got to come out and really lose a lot of the penalties.

Mark Parker

We're going to lose this nice little spot here.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Eartha Kitt

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Emmanuel Soupre

We'll be very vigilant in terms of earnings.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.