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.

Patrick Markee

This is a reminder and a wakeup call to city officials that much more needs to be done.

Nicholas Burns

This is an historic opportunity to shape the future of the country. ... We call on the new leadership to establish an inclusive transitional government leading to elections, and to ensure full respect for human rights throughout the country.

Patrick Comack

This is going to cause more price wars, minute wars, whatever you want to call it. It's great for consumers but terrible for the wireless companies.

Rick Parker

This is going to be one of those judgment call things that's going to be tough.

Frank Robinson

This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of when this thing was going to get done. That's the key right there. ... You want to get ownership named, so you can get the new ballpark, so you can feel what I call 'whole' as a team and as a franchise.

Glenn Rogers

This is a tremendous wake-up call for the church,

Donovan Hayles

This is the game we call a make-up game in terms of points and we have the opportunity of going back into the lead by two points.

Bob Davis

This is the first real cattle call for people to get a glimpse of who might be running for president in 2008.

Nicolle Packer

This is not like a pregnancy test, where you are either pregnant or you're not. It has to be prepared carefully and interpreted by an expert, who can mostly call it, I believe. But it is definitely skill-based, and that is why Wada is looking for a more clear-cut test.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Robert Vaden

Hopefully he can get a job, and if he goes somewhere that's good enough for me, I'll be there with him.. I'm trying not to think about all these things right now. We've got a season we're still playing in and we're trying to make it to the (NCAA) tournament. That's all I'm worried about.

Deena Kastor

London has such a star field. I'm going there to concentrate on the racing and if all goes well, the (fast) time will come.

Matt Pivonka

It all goes back to our offensive line. It seems like every play, especially in the second half, I had huge holes to run through. Those guys do a great job. It makes my job easy.

Gary Waters

I thought Marquis Webb did a great job on Clayton. As Clayton goes the team goes, and I think we did a good job on him.

Raul Meruelo

If everything goes OK, that will happen within this week.

Byron Scott

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

Scott Ellis

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Yutaka Miura

The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,

Kevin Lyons

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Shawn Green

The stuff he was throwing tonight was as good as you're going to see in this league.

Jeff Shaw

The students are helping their high school, they work hard, and it's a good product.

Jim Cole

The student population is at a relatively good time of life in terms of health, strength and vitality,

Liz McColgan

The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both," ()

Ian Foster

The squad has had a good rest this week after our trip. While we have had a short preparation this week, it has been a concentrated one.

Margaret Whelan

The spring selling season is off to a good start. It's not as strong as last year, but it's not weak by any means.

Hanya Yanagihara

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

Alexander McCall Smith

Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Alexander McCall Smith

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Drew Brees

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Doug Stanhope

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

Doug Stanhope

So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps.

Colleen Hoover

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

Clare Boothe Luce

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Chuck D.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Yvonne Johnson

People would move to different sides of the town

Shanen Boettcher

But we need to move quicker than they have shown they can move.

Mark Schmidt

But we need to move on. That is water under the bridge.

Dave Mitchell

But, we just move on. Next week (state) is the one that's real important.

Tom Hernandez

But the vote is the vote and we have to move forward.

Melissa Frame

I'm a quadriplegic. I can move my arms; I just can't use my hands.

Scott Bowers

I'm a little surprised we were able to move that fast.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.