Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

Rick Peckinpaugh

You have to go back three years and all the hard times, Michael didn't want to go through another season like that. He helped our team accomplish a great deal the last two seasons. That's a testament of his ability.

Mike Pressler

This was a year we didn't need a whole lot of depth from the class. Our goal was to land quality players at each position, and I believe we were able to accomplish that. We are counting on these seven outstanding student-athletes to help us continue the tradition of success we experienced on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

Larry Brown

We have to figure out how we defend. It doesn't matter if you have five bad defenders, as a team you can accomplish a lot. That's where we have to get a whole lot better.

Melanie Boeglin

We have not won at either place in my career. Hopefully this is the year we accomplish this.

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Thomas Carter

On top of winning, it's pretty exciting to be in the middle of the points chase this early in the season. We just hope to stay consistent and carry this momentum into Grand Bend.

Pete Asadourian

Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since December 1.

Joel Pineiro

I've been feeling great all year. It was just a matter of having that extra confidence to go out there and challenge people. Maybe it's a little too late in the season, but it's something I can carry over to next year.

Mia Hamm

This is emotional, and I'm truly speechless, ... I was expecting to be a follower tomorrow night, just to go wherever I was pointed, and now I'm carrying the flag. It's a tremendous honor and I thank my fellow Olympians for thinking of me.

John Chaney

This is not a good team. It's fool's gold with our shooting. What happens when they don't shoot well? You have to have somebody to carry the day. This is just not a good team, not at all.

Peter McWilliams

This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

Ted Woodward

You need those types of players, those all-conference players. Wilson is a Player of the Year candidate. When they're struggling he can carry them, and when everyone's clicking he's happy doing what he does. He's been a tremendous leader for their team.

Gary Giancola

We're happy with the No. 2 spot and the possibility of hosting a couple of playoff games. We're the defending champs and will have a target on our backs. We need to be ready to carry that.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Jane Goodall

Angelina is living proof of the power we all have ù every one of us ù to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Brian Koslow

To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments

Ron Frieson

We have a commitment from AT&T that we will continue, as we have historically, to be a very engaged partner in the community. From a culture perspective, these companies really look alike.

Dana Gioia

We felt that Random House had a deep commitment to the book.

Alcee Hastings

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Eckhart Tolle

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

Don Eckerle

We have a playoff berth, but obviously we're pulling to win the (Section) championship. That's where our focus is. We still have some tough section games left. If we can win out, we'll get a pretty good seed.

Donovan McNabb

When I'm on the field, my main focus is to make as many plays as possible.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Dan Simmons

Dr. Livingston's studies helped us identify the problems.

Mike Condo

Those shows went over very well for us. That may have helped us get (the job opening for Duff).

Matthew Lewis

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

David Anderson

She stepped up and did what she was supposed to do. It picked the morale of the team up also and just helped out a bunch.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

But this has to be resolved intelligently and by talking to the rest of the players, who helped Santos get to this position.

Johan Bruyneel

I'm a little surprised that Lance was ignored like this. He won this race seven times in a row, no one has done this before. The Tour helped him become what he is now.

John M. Smith

We had a lot of parental support and the PTA jumped in and helped out.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

It was stupid to oust the previous government. It's illogical.

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Thomas Sowell

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Thomas Jefferson

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.