Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard C. Armitage

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

David Giles

This new-look side is HIS side, they are all HIS signings and as such, HE must take absolute responsibility if things go down the pan,

Joey Eischen

We should have an owner, period. There's 10 people waiting in line to spend an absolute disgusting amount of money and to sit around and waver, there's no excuse.

Jim Carter

We are going to be more efficient per unit of production, but if you try to cut back on an absolute basis, it means you don't grow the industry.

Van Horn

We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,

Jose Ferreira

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

Lamberto Dini

What is happening is absolutely unacceptable, not only from the point of view of (Sharon's) action, but also (from the point of view of) the reaction,

Newt Gingrich

We find ourselves where with a Democratic president and a Republican congress and we have an absolute moral obligation to make this system work.

Sergei Lavrov

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Zabian Dowdell

Coach is an emotional guy and he lets emotions get the best of him at times.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also remain focused on aligning and engaging employees. This session provides an opportunity to learn how to implement systems that help engage and retain employees--from an expert in talent management.

Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

Steve Kaplan

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

Ken Sternad

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

Charles M. Schwab

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Karen Mills

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

Greg Serbon

We want the business people to know there are a lot of people like us, who are very worried about the negative impact of illegal immigration and who spend money at their business.

Mark Ernst

We've seen an industry-wide slower start to the tax filing season than in previous years. Early season operating challenges experienced in our tax business further hurt our January comparative results.

Kevin Rollins

Component costs fell at an unprecedented rate last year, and we gained significant new business from passing those declines to customers more rapidly than anyone.

Dennis Jones

Do they want to keep it simple and fun or complicated and not so much fun. The lodging business is a whole different business. Farmers and ranchers are good with the public but they have probably never been in the customer service business.

Christopher Bell

We're in here for the long haul. We've got a successful and strong company ... and we intend to keep make it even stronger.

Ron Oden

I enjoy this arena, ... There is nothing more empowering than knowing who you are, that you are where you are supposed to be, and that you're doing what you're supposed to do. Right now, this is what I'm supposed to do, but I know ultimately there's more for me to do than this and I look forward to doing it.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Tim Pease

I think we lost the game midway through the second quarter. But I liked our second-half intensity. I thought we got back into the fight and we played with a lot of intensity. We played with a lot of passion and it mattered.

Rick Lazio

I will run hard, I will fight fair, I will stand on the issues and I mean to win.

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

Lyndon Ferns

We lost the meet today, but we only had nine guys and we wanted to fight hard to the end. That's what we did today.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Marcel Achard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Pope John Paul II

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.

Philippe Falardeau

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Pope Francis

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!