Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Michel Therrien

He's a leader of that team. He's a great example for young players, with his work ethic. He makes a huge commitment to fitness. He makes a huge commitment to what it takes to become a great player.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Keith Lockhart

What matters is what you do when you're here. My commitment to this place is real.

Spencer Stewart

We've been there before. Now, we just have to get past that point. It takes a good game plan, good execution and good preparation. Hopefully, this year we are more prepared to get past that point.

Brian Rafalski

I think some of the execution isn't there. We're looking for too much and making things more difficult.

Sam Altman

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

John Donne

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Lord Acton

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Tim Parmeter

When we do what we're supposed to do, and we have execution, we're going to be hard to stop.

Ed Orgeron

The tempo wasn't there, the execution wasn't there, so I told them to come back later, ... If they don't practice the way I want them to practice, that's it. We're done.

Michael Capellas

These results represent strong execution and Compaq's solid momentum in the marketplace,

Richard Hayes

I should be watching an execution. I shouldn't be watching this. It's a waste of taxpayer money. This is a cold-blooded killer. He ruined two families. (His execution) would be the happiest day in my life.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Michael Litzinger

He returned from a mission and got back to good form a lot faster than we expected.

Steve Murdock

If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Hispanic populations grew faster than Anglo populations. It's a very pervasive pattern.

Rhonda Jefferson

In our league, the teams play quicker and set faster so it is hard to defend. We have to raise our tempo, we're not quite there yet.

Paolo Iorio

It has been much faster than they thought ... He must now be extradited within 10 days.

Giorgio Rocca

I'm happy for this podium finish. It was fun. I want to go ever faster as we head to the Olympic Games in Italy.

Jessica Martin

I really want to go in and lift after this. I think I can get faster and improve my vertical jump.

Neal Marshall

I'm really happy with our time (in the quarter-final race). It was faster than the German A-team, which makes us confident.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Chris Drury

I think the important thing is we've just got to grow as a team. You can't just learn and grow together with wins, you also have to do it with losses.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Whittaker Chambers

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

William Banting

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

William Ralph Inge

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Umberto Eco

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

Troy Polamalu

It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.