Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Borowitz

After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

Brian Tracy

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Graham Sharpe

Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Greg Valliere

You have to say that it could be a hollow victory, a pyrrhic victory, for the eventual winner if you will. We had a situation back in 1876, I'm told, where Rutherford B. Hayes won, but he was called Ruther 'fraud' B. Hayes for his whole term, and I think there's going to be a lot of sniping at the eventual winner as someone perhaps who won a tainted election,

Bob Renard

Is there a chance? Yes. Would I say that every day? No. Would I say that in any other storm event so far this year? No.

Holly Swoape

We just had a meeting about that and most of the people who come here know that we will eventually have a cost.

Tom Williams

We will try to exploit our depth. We would like to send two kids (to state) in five to six events that can score. That's one factor we can control.

Jim Fuller

We won more than half of the events. That was one of the goals I put on them. To win more events than the other teams.

Rich Sadvar

We'll eventually have to use a relief pitcher more often. But right now, our starters are doing what they need.

Bruce Meyers

We'll eventually get down to your county. Over a six-year period, we'll hit every school district.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Nick Reid

He's our secret weapon. We've been holding him out the first two games. We let him loose today.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Patrick Martin

The question is whether we're forgoing public sales by holding that many for students right now.

Roz Chast

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

John Kilduff

There was a late wave a selling at the end of the day.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Robert Brault

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Marty Ward

It doesn't make sense to stay open too late because people start thinking about summer even if we have the snow to keep going.

Joe Galante

I still think the year is going to end up down for us, as it will for the overall industry. There are no late releases that are going to save us for the year. We'll just do better than the rest of the world.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Mary Hart

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

Beth Macmillan

They said not only would they like to sponsor it, but they would like to have it on site as part of their opening ceremonies.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Bobby Rahal

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.