Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Williams

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

Chris Johns

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws of gravity forever. I'm trying to persuade my wife to sell our house now before prices fall.

Dan Chin

The bids then come to us in an e-mail, and we update (the page) every day.

Rick Page

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

John Loyd

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

Barry Hyman

(Biotechnology) is keeping the Nasdaq up, ... As bids start to firm, money is flowing back in, and that's causing the Nasdaq to outperform the blue chips.

David Frick

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

Jim Saisa

We had seven vendors who came to our pre-bid meeting, and four bids were received for the work.

Larry Bush

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Mike Cameron

I was kind of using it as a joke. But I wanted a team with a little bit of character to it, some diversity. I wanted (the Padres) to get some young, talented athletes.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Jack Rew

Kevin knew quite a bit and he got me into more and more. I liked it and I got to be pretty decent.

John Beilein

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Nicole Sullivan

kick in a little bit of money for the house.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

John Armstrong

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

Karen Thompson Walker

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Mark Messier

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

L. Frank Baum

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Enrique Garcia

They're braver than me. I tell them that they have to think no matter what, they're going to get through it. No matter what.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

John Edwards

Jude comes from a completely medical family - her brothers and sisters are all doctors, her father's a doctor, her mother's a nurse. She just loves real stuff.

Michael DiLeonardo

I swallowed the pills and I thought about my brother John and his family.

Mardy Fish

I think it is only a matter of time before that happens. I think some of the other guys who aren't exactly household names in tennis, but everybody is under 23. The Bryan Brothers (Mike and Bob) have done a lot to try to promote doubles, promote Davis Cup.

Ann Merideth

He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he loved her. And he wanted me and my brother to know that he loved us.

Priya Paul

It is good to have a personal relationship with God, but another good thing is to pray with your brothers and sisters.

Teresa Calcutta

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Greg Paulus

I think we caught them off-guard a little bit. It was kind of like an older brother/younger brother kind of thing.

Gordon Felt

It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day.

Paul Sanders

I watched it last year, and I loved the competition and how much the brothers get into it, so I decided to join in on the fun.

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Walter Map

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

Morgan Pressel

Harder than it had to be ... that's for sure. I was struggling to make solid contact.

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Sam Worthington

To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Carla Thomas

I think we played harder (than in December). We showed more intensity and heart. We were still in it with 10 minutes left. The only reason we didn't pull it out was because we didn't play our game. We stopped playing hard.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Rex Grossman

I think that's just human nature to make you want to work harder to improve yourself, and I think that'll be a positive for me.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

Lindsey Graham

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Ruben Blades

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Wynton Marsalis

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Robert Erspamer

If the neighbor hadn't called, it would have been a different story.

Tamara Brown

If you do it to me and my neighbors on Knight's Key, ... you are setting a precedent to do it in your neighborhood.

Steve Kinney

I'm not going to have any neighbors for a while.

Scott Edwards

It's going to be a quiet March. The neighbors (on the beach) should be happy.

Leah Busque

When it comes down to it, @Taskrabbit is about neighbors connecting with neighbors

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Epictetus

With ills unending strives the putter off.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Marcus Luttrell

You always have to strive

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Fred Frith

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

S. Hughes

I didn't feel comfortable until towards the end. One of the things we're trying to strive for as a team is to find the knockout punch, and today I think we were able to do that.

Richard L. Evans

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Richard L. Evans

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.

Tucker Max

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Warren Buffett

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Walter Bagehot

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Samuel Richardson

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Wayne Dyer

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.