Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Ed Wade

I understand the rights of people to have the ability to criticize what we do, ... At the same time, we have a lot of fans out there who were very supportive of what we've done here over the last eight years, particularly what we've done over the last couple of years to try to get to the finish line. And I also think it needs to be said that for eight years, I've been a doer, and not a critic. Because sometimes standing up and doing things is a lot easier that people standing on the sidelines and criticizing what you do.

Warren Shiau

Things are getting worse. However, despite the greater instances of attacks the amount of investment in security has produced a degree of resistance to those attacks. Internal breaches of security was five per cent three years ago (today it is 30 per cent) . . . perhaps with the implementation of improved security people have a better ability to discover security breaches than in the past.

Jia Qinglin

They also show to the world that the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait have the wisdom and ability to resolve their differences and build a new framework for the peaceful and steady development of cross-Strait relations.

Dick Martin

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Scott Moore

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Chris Mullin

The way Mike performed, the way he conducted himself, and the way we run our organization, we both felt it was something that we wanted, ... We're still putting together a team and not just individuals. Mike's ability to play with the guys that we have on our roster, along with his age and his development ... are what it's about.

Ronald Reagan

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Tony Fratto

The World Bank's analysis seems to give greater credence to the ability of a Niger to pay back its unsustainable debt than it does for the G-8 countries to meet their commitments.

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Sam Sheppard

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

Mike Frank

I believed it was important to have another solidarity trip with a focus on AIDS/HIV.

A.G. Lafley

I believed it in January and after eight months ... my enthusiasm and confidence are even greater.

Joyce Kilmer

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Rob Carter

I believed in him. We had completely different personalities, but we really went together well.

Charles Greene

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Harry Aleman

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Bob Horn

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

Amy Smith

It makes a big impact on their lives. The residents get that one-on-one personal socialization.

Mark Ishikawa

It's going to impact the Sirius radio subscribers. Why would you pay $13 a month when you can get what you want from the Internet?

Jay McIntosh

It's going to have a significant impact on their costs.

Phillip Jones

It's going to have a devastating impact on the small, boutique properties. They don't have the national sales office.

Allan Ramsay

It's going to take some time for the impact to become clear.

Nelson Mandela

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Newt Gingrich

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Noam Chomsky

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Noam Chomsky

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Roger Lewis

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

Scott Draper

This will be a first-come-first-serve procedure. We have only a limited number of slots available.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Ambrose Bierce

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Ambrose Bierce

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Ambrose Bierce

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Alicia Keys

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

Anne Lamott

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.