Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Day

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Kobe Bryant

It's a different challenge, but something we've tried to do all season long is just learn how to play with one another. And what I mean by that is to play to everybody's strengths, know what our weaknesses are and how to counteract that, pretty much pick each other up.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

John Rother

Still, none of these discount programs can counteract the full impact of these price increases. Even with the discounts, these prices are hurting people.

Roy Williams

It was a game where I was hoping our speed would counteract some of their strength. But we weren't able to do that.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

David Feider

We're in a wait-and-see mode hoping that the river is opened to ocean-going traffic.

Stephanie Stoutenborough

We wanted to win the state last year, but we're hoping to do it this year.

Nathan Parsons

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Jack Allen

What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.

Bob Hansen

We're still optimistic and hoping the rain will stop. We'll see what Mother Nature give us.

Mike Cox

We're still hoping to resolve the situation peacefully.

Frans Steyn

We were hoping we'd see them. We'll be ready for them.

Bob Seger

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Maureen McCormick

It's only a traffic infraction. It's like a speeding ticket." ()

Lee Baig

They have not even a speeding ticket in their backgrounds so to make them out as cold-blooded killers is preposterous.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Bob Riley

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.