Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Dixon

First of all, I want to apologize to my coach, teammates and the organization. That was way out of my character and I was wrong. I was frustrated, thought I had been fouled a number of times trying to get the ball up the court and I just really wanted to win this game.

Butch Williams

What happens if the DNA comes back and it's none of these young men? How do you apologize to them? How do you make it right? How do you restore their character?

John Tschohl

Too many employees want to blame someone else for mistakes. The customer doesn't care who made the mistake; he wants the employee standing in front of him to take care of it. You must own the problem. Apologize on behalf of your organization, and then take whatever steps are necessary to solve the problem.

Jesse Jackson

we will not apologize even for slavery. We're hung up on that word, that kind of cultural wall.

Terry Francona

We won 95 games in a season where things didn't go right. I'm not going to apologize for that.

Ross Pillari

We apologize to those who were harmed and to the Texas City community. We cannot change the past or repair all the damage this incident has done. We can assure that those who were injured and the families of those who died receive financial support and compensation. Our goal is to provide fair compensation without the need for lawsuits or lengthy court proceedings.

Andrew Fegyveresi

We apologize to our viewers. We experienced technical difficulties and we addressed them as soon as we could.

Rick Cagen

We apologize to our patients and our community. We know that this is going to inconvenience many, and concern many more.

Denny Green

We apologize for the short notice on the road closure,

John Austin

After years of unabated pollution, I can assure you that the voters of Sussex are now very aware of the health impacts that the Indian River facility has caused or aggravated.

Dr. McKinlay

Dentists and parents, I think, can be very assured from the results of this study that they can continue to put silver amalgam in children's mouths to fill cavities.

Mitt Romney

are revisiting and reviewing what is a very solid public safety plan. We will make every effort to assure the safety of the games for the athletes, spectators, sponsors, guests and the venue communities.

Mark Routt

The sooner we help our neighbor put out his house fire, the better we'll sleep at night. It's an opportunity to stop what could have been a spike in prices, and to assure that the rest of the country won't have a supply disruption they could have had.

Mike Pence

Some (soldiers) were worried that the resources they need might be diverted, ... I assured them I would do what was needed to win the war and get them home safe.

Mohamed ElBaradei

once you have that assured supply, you have taken away the justification for countries to say, 'I'd like to make my own fuel,' and that's 80 percent of the problem.

Bob Stein

Round two is in the courts, it's not necessarily in November. He needs to be acquitted to assure his re-election.

Bob Riley

I've talked with federal officials and they've assured me this disruption of the gasoline supply is one of their top priorities and they're working to correct the problem, ... I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption. In the meantime, citizens can continue to do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly.

David Walsh

The whole purpose is to assure the public we are dealing with these cases promptly, efficiently and fairly. This is a serious problem, and it's an embarrassment.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Marie Kondo

People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.

Claude Moise

People fear that if he cannot free himself from the Aristide base, he might become a prisoner of the very violent methods of that base.

Patrick Leonard

Officially, Aloha Stadium cannot confirm anything until there is a signed contract.

Philip Coyle

Norco was a prime example. Thanks to the hard work of our staff, I think we have a good understanding of what's correct and what's not. We cannot always rely on the DOD figures.

Bobby Holik

No scoreboard watching for me. I have a job to do and I cannot control what happens.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

George Moore

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

John B. Hood

A vast majority of the votes have to do with policy matters, for which your member has one vote out of 120. It's (a new lawmaker) unlikely to dramatically change anything.

Mike Parsons

As often does happen, new head coaches like to come in a make their marks. One of the things he wanted to do was change the helmet.

Karl Frieden

As long as Congress doesn't change the rules of the game, there's only so far the states can go.

Sung Sohn

A slight decline should not change the picture that much, ... If you look at the fundamentals, despite all the negative news, consumers are in pretty good shape. The jobless rate is pretty low, and their net worth is going up because house prices going up.

Trevor Pryce

As long as I've been here, ... I've never seen one play change a game like that.

M. Wolfe

As long as I own it, I retain the option to change the color,

Kaley Cuoco

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

Sylvia Pankhurst

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

Terry Austin

Norris City played very well and they should be proud of themselves. We didn't play very well today. I don't think we played to our potential today, but we have other matches to play and things will get better.

James Wilson

No, sir, that's been tried. Some city council members have already talked to him. I get just as frustrated as you are.

Roger Lehman

Normally, city teams don't like to play a lot of defense for too long, so we wanted to take our time a lot on offense.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Again, we are a city that meets in sadness, ... We are all linked to one another in our common humanity.

Thomas Finlan

Oil City hired me to do a job, and the day I started for Oil City, my loyalty had to change.

Tony Lococo

Once we have collected the 500 signatures, we will send our application in to the city of Columbus. While they are reviewing the application, we will hold an election for the seven to 21 people who would make up the commission.

M. Wolfe

Once we did that, he saw that people here are genuine and real. Everything that is good about the team is personified by the people here. He didn't go before the Legislature, and Sara didn't get a mink coat. We took him to Red Lobster for lunch, and we rode around the city in a four-wheel-drive vehicle in the snow.

Tom Clark

Actually it worked out, because we started taking the collections and then we learned that there was going to be evacuees actually showing up in the city of Reno.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Garrett Williamson

The sixth man. They've been there for us all year. We wanted them to run on the court with us but they couldn't, so we took it to them.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

Bill Frist

The Supreme Court will embark upon a new era in its history - the Roberts era.

Gary Orfield

The Supreme Court that used to be pushing us forward is undermining efforts to desegregate.

Robert Kenneth

The Supreme Court ruling is legitimizing. This is really a peace of mind law and not something that is used often.

Viktor Yushchenko

The Supreme Court judges, they are real heroes today,

Jay Bender

The Supreme Court is going to have to hear this. I think if the plaintiffs are entitled to an accounting, then the court can make that determination.

Tom Schrader

The storm is drifting east, and the further east of Houston it gets, the less damage it is going to do to refineries in the Houston area.

Bill O'Grady

The storm has moved over Florida, so we know for sure that it's not going to damage any energy facilities. The weather is still mild so heating demand has yet to pick up. The primary trend is still lower.

Stephen Leeb

The stock reaction over the next few weeks is likely to be fairly neutral, with a lot of the damage already factored into prices.

Shawn Amos

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Mickey Driver

It would be highly speculative right now to pick out a day. We have people on the scene surveying the damage and every day we learn more about the situation.

John McNulty

The worst damage had already taken place at the site prior to 1988, and was due primarily to unplanned development.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Jan Egeland

The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Ashley Lloyd

Any situation where you could have died and you don't is a lucky situation.

Ruel Lasala

Autopsies conducted by the NBI on some of the victims did not show that they died of electrocution.

Heather Evans

A woman called because she wanted to let me know that she wouldn't be in because her husband died that morning. They take this very seriously.

Roger Warren

Baltus Roll, the gentleman who owned the land and died on the land, is where the name comes from.

Richard Brooks

I've lost loved ones and friends that have died out there for unknown respiratory problems.

Drew Wojtanik

When I tell people that my wife died literally overnight, that's no exaggeration. It was just that quick.

Abraham Scott

Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Atem Aleu

Many people died from no water and no food.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Chris Mudd

I've always been able to, when I first meet someone, get a good read on their personality, and I'm fairly observant, so I can tell what people will do and won't do. I pick up on that quicker than some.

Jim Haley

Some players that didn't tee off yet were going to come tomorrow and play in sunshine while half the field is playing in this muck. We just didn't feel like that was fair to the field.

Colin Love

Notwithstanding Steve Rogers' pure qualities as a footballer he will be remembered as much for the way he played the game - always cleanly and fairly and in the true spirit of sportsmanship.

Anita Allen

Sometimes it's fairly obvious they're trying to hide their face. That's a first tip maybe they are trying to hide something and it's obvious from the picture they aren't who they say they are.

Steve Schirripa

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Charles Bronson

These families have been able to retain ownership of their land through the Depression, droughts, freezes and the urbanization of Florida. That is a great tribute to the many generations of these families.

Mira Sorvino

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.

Susan Mitchell

This is a wonderful victory for Milwaukee families after three-and-a-half years of struggle.

E. Hurley

This is a remarkable development for families with children,

Barbara Thompson

This is a particularly challenging time for families and service members.

Roy Hallums

This is a terrible situation for Jill Carroll and her family but people have come through it and families have come through it and get back to a normal life.

Pat Sullivan

This is not just a job for first-responders, ... They're doing this for their families and their communities. Some of these guys don't want to take a break. They say there's too much work to be done. We're tired. So what? But we've got to look at it, not as a glass half empty, but half full, or we'll miss the positive. We're going to make it through this.

Jonathan Murray

The mission is to identify nice, rich families to work with. That is what we want - nice rich people. We have turned down investors with $10 million because they were jerks and didn't share our values.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Cisco Systems

disclosed all required financial information about the holdings of our officers and directors.

Patricia Scherschel

Consolidation is an important financial option. You want to make the right decision, so do your homework before you sign on the dotted line.

Salih Mutlaq

To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.

H. Hart

We are always vulnerable as a financial center, as we have been for the last three decades.

Kris Everson

We didn't mean to hurt anybody. We did it out of financial reasons.

Bernie Sanders

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Bryan Williams

The students know that we have a long-term goal this year, and they've been sticking to it. They've been making a lot of sacrifices and we've been doing very well.

Brian Durocher

The third goal in the first period was big for them. We could have made it 2-1 on the power play, but it wasn't meant to be.

Steve Struzyk

After our last two trips here - we got blanked one year and last year they pretty much owned us - this was a little payback. Our goal was to get a quick start this year, so this was huge for us.

Bobby Gaston

Actually, our goal is to have no plays overturned by instant replay.

Orlando Early

Southeastern has a similar record to us, but start two seniors and three juniors. We will have to go down there and be ready for a tough game. Our goal though has to be to keep working hard and try to get better everyday.

Mike Johnson

Special teams played such a big role. Getting that 5-on-3 goal was huge. We were on our heels to that point.

Brian Jones

One goal on nine shots is not bad, but that should be your first period, not your whole game.

Brendan Shanahan

Scoring a goal is special. Scoring a hat trick is special. I don't think you ever get tired of it. You know, obviously, once you get the second one, you start a kind of run for the puck and the net.

Brian Michaels

Safety is my No. 1 goal and I have a 15-point safety plan for our city.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Wayne Minnaar

There have been no reported incidents so far, but we are monitoring the situation as usual.

Harvey Rosenthal

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

Larry Wachtel

If it's just one,' that's the whole premise. That this is not the first in a series, this one isolated incident and then we're on to better things. This is a miscalculation.

Pat Camden

That was treated as an isolated incident ? that's the way it should have been treated. On the other hand, at Sox Park you get that reputation because it's on the South Side.

Brian Doyle

The incident was resolved before anything was moved.

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

John Lyly

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Tyler Baskfield

This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.

Roxanne Walker

I understand that they were seriously injured but it looks like they are going to recover.

Kuno Becker

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

Shen Xue

It was a surprise to me because I seldom make mistakes on my jumps but my mind was worried about him. When I was injured it was him who made the mistake. It's hard.

Phil Jackson

Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Janis Joplin

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

Bella Thorne

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Charles Bukowski

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

Duane Chapman

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Alistair Cooke

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Anson Jones

The Republic of Texas is no more.

Angie Harmon

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having trouble with a scene, I'll just go over to him and be like, "I have no idea what's happening here. What are we doing?" He's just been such a wonderful sounding board and, obviously, he's a tremendously talented actor.