Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Henry Thomas

The substitutions weren't there. I didn't go back to them, and that was a bad call on my part. In the fourth quarter, our players just didn't have the legs because they had been out there for so long.

Stephen Larkham

The shoulder itself didn't feel that bad on Saturday, but the MRI indicates it is. It's a tough decision but the right thing to do to give me the best opportunity to recover in time for next year.

Jeff Foster

The technical was sad to see. It was a bad time in the game. You don't expect that from A.J., of all people. We were fortunate he missed that shot and he missed the game-winner. The way we've been going lately, it seems like we're getting back to getting on the refs again, and we can't do that if we want to be successful.

J. Hoover

The team I really feel bad for is Indiana State. I think last year they should have been the number one seed, and this year they should have been also. The winner of the tournament is going to come out of our side of the bracket. It's going to come down to Indiana State or us.

Ricky Skaggs

The symphony gets the benefit for it as well. I've never seen a bad review on one of these shows.

Joe Lunardi

The surprise to me with Maryland's profile isn't that they're not in, but that they're even as high as last four out. The bubble is really bad and most years I think they'd be eight or 10 spots lower than they are. Most years we're not talking about five or six from the Missouri Valley or two or three from the Colonial or eight or nine Big East teams. There's not a team on the bubble that doesn't have serious flaws.

Bhagavad Gita

The Supreme Lord said: There is no destruction, O Arjuna, for such a yogi either here or hereafter. A transcendentalist is never put to grief (or bad state), My dear friend.

Johnny May

The third was a bad quarter for us. We dug ourselves a hole. We cut it to three and that's how we play. We made runs and they made runs. Theirs were just a little bigger than ours.

Beth Vesa

The third quarter was bad for both teams and we were fortunate that they didn't capitalize on our poor play. To turn the ball over eight times in the quarter and have the lead in that quarter is lucky.

Paula Begoun

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Eddie Olczyk

He's been battling something the past few days. He will not play. We will see how he feels Thursday.

Bryan McCabe

They're a battling team. They've got a gritty coach. They played hard. They try to play spoiler or whatever. Guys never quit in this league. It's never a given that you're going to get two points.

Chris Braier

For four years here, we've been battling to gain respect. With 16 teams left in the tournament, everyone is good.

Maurice Garner

This is what it is all about. Getting an opportunity to win the city championship is what we've been battling for all season.

Derek Roy

We're battling for first place with Ottawa, so all those games are going to be huge. Then Toronto and Boston are fighting for playoff spots, and Montreal's trying to stay in. Those are all going to be huge, key games for us. Those are all four-point games.

Willie Graham

Our guys did a great job battling back.

Cher

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities.

Tacitus

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

Ovid

Habit had made the custom.

Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Lillian Hellman

Everybody's got a habit.

Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

Joel Brown

Success is a habit. More of what you do, is more of what you become.

Heraclitus

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Joseph Addison

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Donald Trump

When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going to win and Donald Trump is a genius, and then I have people saying you should disavow. I said, I'm going to disavow that?

Donald Trump

I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

Donald Trump

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

Donald Trump

You know that if you [Hillary Clinton] did win, you would approve that [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA.

Donald Trump

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

Donald Trump

If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is.

Donald Trump

Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Donald Trump

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

Adolf Hitler

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.