Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Fisher

We are pretty devastated to lose a student in that circumstance.

Steve Patterson

We were, and are, devastated by the loss.

Garrett Lucash

We were devastated when it happened, but as soon as we could we made a positive out of a negative. We had more time to work on more things and new tricks and regroup.

Jim Dunn

This is a big blow. He's devastated after all of this.

Charles Carroll

They took me to the World Series and sent me a letter and said a lot of people would be getting rings, and I thought I'd be one of them, ... But I'm devastated I didn't get the ring. I don't want it to be sour grapes about the thing. It's just that everything went so well, and the final step would have been to give me a ring. I had it earmarked for my grandson.

Steve Berman

They stood motionless and mute while the stock?s slide devastated the retirement savings of thousands.

Charlie Johnson

There was no winner in this. Somebody lost a father, somebody lost a son. Basically, it devastated two families.

Bill Richardson

devastated by the ravage of terror and the terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, and destruction of property.

Rene Lavigne

And then they left us; we heard them (mocking) us when they left, yelling back to us, 'Help us! Help us' as they drove away. I was so devastated that we were just left there by those guys. They were a real pair of bastards.

Gerald Cox

That'll be a mute point, though, if we don't play any better than we are right now.

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Al Pacino

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Chris Christie

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Chris Christie

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Chipper Jones

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

Edward Gibbon

The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

David Brainerd

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Greg Moore

The slide breached the back wall of the house.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes, and we don't know when that will occur.

Al Goldman

Uncertainty in Washington has greased the slide downward.

Thomas Jefferson

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Mark Teixeira

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

Francis Bacon

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Jose Rios

I was on the top of the slide going down.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Courtney Adams

We just stood there and watched it burn.

Robert Brown

We two stood there with never a third.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.