Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Craig Dunn

I think establishing the new position and the new office is a step in the right direction.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Jim Kiick

I wish I could speak to him more often. He more or less has gone in his own direction. He has gotten away from football. He enjoys hunting and fishing. He has a new life, and that's what he enjoys.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

Jon Huntsman

so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

Robert DiClemente

The risk of spillover from the rising trend in energy prices will likely prompt the Fed to head off more lasting damage.

Barry Long

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

Brooke Burke

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Jim Gray

We're an energy city. In my lifetime, it doesn't get better than $60 oil and $11 gas.

Deepak Chopra

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

Robert Burke

Entirely too much energy of our state police force is spent controlling honest citizens, simply because it is something they can succeed in doing.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Celine Dion

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Alain de Botton

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

Alanis Morissette

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Scott Gerber

We are going to pursue every option to get it passed.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Sundiata Gaines

I really think our only option is to win the SEC Tournament.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Edgar Mitchell

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

Norman Lear

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Jack Horner

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Scotty McCreery

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Jay Chiat

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Freddy Adu

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

Warren Buffett

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

Walter Annenberg

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Mark Twain

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

Ed Helms

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.