Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Allen

This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

Charles Wald

The weather is improving, and we're flying around the clock more, and we have the ability to service all of Kosovo, ... So we're just taking the fight to the whole area.

Larry Noble

The whole culture is based on the ability to raise funds. Most of the ones who are running for the leadership are very well-connected in this fundraising community.

Trent Duffy

The White House and the administration are cooperating with both the House and Senate. But we have also maintained the president's ability to get advice and have conversations with his top advisers that remain confidential.

James Sung

The upgrade is based on the company's demonstrated ability, as reflected in improved operating performance and capitalization, to successfully operate in the challenging New York State regional market.

Bruce Schneier

The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.

Robert Bates

This contract is not perfect by any means, but it gives us the ability to get our guys back to work.

Larry Fitzgerald

That's what we practiced all week, working on red-zone plays. We know we have the ability to do it.

Neil deMause

That's why you didn't see, for example, the use of amphetamines discussed by sports journalists for decades - because it was something that wasn't in the public awareness. If somebody had started writing about the fact that athletes were popping amphetamines left and right, they would have been in serious trouble, and no one would have talked to them. That would have put their ability to do the rest of their job at risk.

Terry McAuliffe

It is a disgrace that while President Bush has repeatedly told small business owners that he considers them the main creators of jobs in America, his administration is making such an outrageous decision that will cut off their access to capital.

Matt Fellowes

It's very hard to get access to those trailers, and very few people want to hook them up in their driveway and live next to the shell of their house.

Geraldine Ferraro

They went into the basement, they went on the roof, they went upstairs to the second floor. We allowed them total access to anything that they wanted to see.

Crystal Kennedy

They were recommended by my campaign manager. I felt it was a good opportunity to come up with more professional materials, and they had access to buy radio time.

Dave Paul

They want emergency responders to be able to access the pipeline in a hurry if necessary without having to tear down a shed or a tree or something.

James Pendleton

They wanted to meet with the senators and they had all of their people together in one location and so they got him out there to meet with him. I don't think they get any more access than anyone else does.

John Simpson

It smacks of selling access and influence to well-heeled donors.

Richard Bliss

IT managers will have access to the key for any message.

Marsha Blackburn

Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Angelina Jolie

You had to trust each other to cross under or over and only move when the other person moves, so the trust, when somebody's got a loaded gun at your back. ... It made us trust each other quickly,

Anne Graham Lotz

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.

Andy Downs

We are in a position where a number of people could sue us. By making this decision we've reduced the number of people who can sue us.

Keith McKeown

We are delighted they have come to a decision so we can move forward to the next stage and focus on science.

David Paulson

We'll get all the reports in the morning and make a decision at that time.

Crystal Robinson

Those girls knew right from wrong. What he did was wrong, but they made the decision to sleep with him.

Ratu Ganilau

Those who are unhappy about the decision must have a major problem.

Nan Stoltzenburg

You haven't made a decision on how dense you want the hamlets. That's the first step.

Bill Belichick

We'll make that decision when we're sure we're not going to have to double back on it. We'll make it when we're sure it's going to be the right decision for that point in time.

Jim Bates

We'll make that decision (today). But we'll go on a lot of plays and the total preseason, not just tonight.

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Bobby Bowden

Well, if you saw all three games, you know we could very easily be 1-2 right now,

Nasim Pedrad

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

Muriel Spark

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Phoebe Cary

You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

Nathaniel Branden

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Mother Teresa

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Steve Ridder

I'm most proud of him knocking down six of seven free throws. He had been struggling on the line. But Michael's our All-American and he showed it tonight.

Romeo Wheeler

I knew those free throws were big. This was a big win for us and a real fun game to play.

Dan Dakich

I'm not even sure we've shot a free throw. We haven't shot free throws in so long, I couldn't even tell you.

Rich Miller

I'm disappointed we lost, but not in the way we played. We played hard but missed shots and free throws during some key times in the game.

Bob Daly

I hope to get first in the Free Press Marathon,

Ebonie Halliburton

I made the first free throw then I saw there was just 0.2 seconds left. We got down but we kept our heads up. We were not going to lose this game and have our work go for nothing.

Jamaal Magloire

I made some free throws, I've been working on that. I thought our inside play was really good.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.