Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Greenfield

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Eduardo Najera

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Shinzo Abe

The government and the BOJ will work as one to defeat deflation, and we hope the BOJ will keep taking effective monetary policy and earn the markets' trust.

Cameron C. Powell

You have got to become your opponent to defeat your opponent.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Bill Coleman

The worst thing you can say is 'I want $X for this job,' leaving no opening for negotiation by the other side. Better language is 'I hope to earn between $X and $X.' That gives the other party more flexibility.

Chris White

The way it works, ... is I did not look at a roster. Everyone had to earn their way on to the team. We have a pretty good mix of classes. We have eight seniors on the team and have strong leadership from our three captains.

Tom Lehman

The way I look at it is I would love to earn my spot.

Paul Chavez

This is the first time we've had all five earn all-region. Overall, I think it was a great performance.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Melissa Brown

You get it over with, get it out of the way early, and then we're on to reporting season. We've seen for the past 12 quarters or so that this has meant what's left is good news and earnings surprises have been quite positive.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

Edwin Jackson

Throw hard, be aggressive, make the hitters earn it.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Janet Reno

Money laundering is a problem for the whole world, ... We're here to work with you to be as effective a partner as we can.

Gary Holt

We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.

Michael Jacobson

While functional foods hold much promise, without effective regulation, they may merely become the snake oil of the next century.

Alain de Botton

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.

Guilherme Leal

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

Debra DeCourcy

We thought this was far more effective and that a (single replacement for Arnold) was not warranted.

Steve Freeman

We weren't as effective as we could be on either side of the ball. We still don't have any room for error and when we have an opportunity to make a play on either side of the ball, we have to make it.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

John Piper

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Robbie Loomis

To do that, I've got a lot of things I've got to work through.

Robin Day

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Jamie Bell

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

Jennifer Aniston

Well, honey, if you can, you have got to work with him because he is dreamy.