Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

Herman Frazier

No question, it can bring in money for us. But the most important thing about it is it eases the transfers of tickets between the fans, and it gets people into the stadiums quickly.

Rick Tolman

Normally we rely on a lot of it moving out down the river to export points as we bring the new crop in. In the short run they will have to build piles on the ground and hope that it doesn't rain.

Justin Torres

After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the... families,

Justin Torres

After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.

Gretchen Dykstra

After September 11, many people around the world built temporary memorials and now it is time to build a permanent memorial to pay tribute to those who died and to bring understanding to future generations.

Mason Phelps

The caliber of competition is getting more difficult.

Mel Blasi

Sometimes a player of his caliber goes through a long dry spell. He's worked really hard and fought through a lot of adversity.

Jess Munro

The score does not indicate what type of intense match it was. Lara was nervous about playing someone of that caliber in the first match, but I told her to go out and give it everything she had and to learn from the best.

Jessica Lloyd

It was a new unit at the checkpoint, and new units are always pretty hardcore. We pulled up and (a soldier) puts his face in the car and says, 'Slow down. You have a .50 caliber pointed at the back of your head. Of course it was pointed at the back of my head, because I was in the back seat.

Hank Blalock

I should not let anything like that frustrate me. I feel like I'm the caliber of player who can hit there, but I can't use hitting somewhere else in the lineup as an excuse. Whether I'm hitting third or sixth, I've got to put together good at-bats.

Pat Kelly

This is awesome. With the caliber of guys (drivers) here tonight, I didn't know what was going to happen. We stayed out of trouble and wanted to be there at the end and we were there.

Jerome Bettis

This is good for the team, ... It keeps team morale up. Whenever you get a player of his caliber signed, it shows the commitment the organization has to its players. I think it reinforces a positive message that if you go out there and perform on the field, we'll take care of you. I think that makes a very, very conducive environment for us to go out there and work.

Stefan Pryor

This is a true reaffirmation of the rebuilding process. We are extraordinarily grateful for the caliber of appointments that they have made.

Denham Brown

This isn't good enough. Not with the caliber of team that we have.

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Ayrton Senna

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Jamie Bell

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Denise Garcia

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Barry Sanders

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Boman Irani

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Mark Tushnet

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Clark Blaise

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Dilma Rousseff

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Sheila King

The team played very, very well. We played a 32-minute game and did what we needed to do from start to finish.

Sheila King

The talk after the game was playing for 32 minutes. And playing 100 percent for 32 minutes. I don't think we got that tonight.

Chris Spivey

The third quarter says it all -- it happened so quick. That was pretty much the meat of the game -- we got off to a good start, then got outscored.

John Gibbons

The thing about this game is that it doesn't wait on you.

Eduardo Najera

The thing about the fouls is that it slows the pace of the game and all the fouls just keeps us from running.

Romeo Crennel

The thing I've been talking to my team about is that even though it's Ohio, it's still one game and we still have a lot of games we're going to have to play after this one.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

John Snow

It would be our hope they can do that quickly within a week,

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

John Fogg

Psychologically, that is a huge step forward, ... When that happens, you can think about getting back to a sense of normalcy.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Paul Begala

It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Jonathon Shockey

This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

John Fitzgibbons

Even if can't get in on the offer price you won't have to pay a huge premium now.

Harvey Pitt

any restrictions that we think have an impact on public investors.

Mark Fratrik

Radio has been incredibly disappointing. Satellite radio has had an impact on the traditional industry, but the big reason is the drop-off in younger people listening to radio.

Dave Kolpak

Are they doing what he wanted? Not nearly, to the letter. But is he having a positive impact on shareholder value and wealth? Yes.

David Fassler

The study we requested would look at increased expenditures related to direct-to-consumer advertising, as well as the impact on patient safety and the overall quality of care,

Nick Rose

The terrible hurricanes in the US have had an impact on our performance in the south-eastern states,

Bob Riley

These sites can have a large impact really quickly,

Gary Vickers

The rising, moving water impact is something we can't mitigate.

Amy Ziff

That tells me Katrina is having a minimal impact on Labor Day travel.

Mike Jackson

That's not going to have an impact so much this year, but going forward, it will help.

Robert Burns

He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / With adieu for evermore, / My dear,/ Adieu for evermore.

Penny Monahan

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Thomas Moore

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Lao Tzu

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Atharva Veda

The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Green Day

Billie-Joe: Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it

Matt Millen

You can tell people the truth and everyone thinks you're lying, and you can lie and everyone thinks you're telling the truth.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Conor Oberst

I want a lover I don't have to love

Sylvia Hatchell

Some teams have run with us and we love that.

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Danny Sullivan

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Joe Gallegos

The score doesn't reflect how well we played.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Cesar Chavez

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Ann Macbeth

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

D. H. Lawrence

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

Ricky Martin

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Rick Rubin

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Eminem

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Willie Randolph

Right now, we just have to wait and see. But it doesn't look too good.

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.