Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

John Kane

It shouldn't be assumed there is a true conflict of interest. To me, a conflict of interest implies that someone's judgment is going to be influenced by this relationship, and that is not necessarily the case.

Sherron Watkins

It was just assumed that I was wrong. It was a blatant lie.

Dan Johnson

It was kind of a weird thing. No one out on the field knew what was going on. I just assumed it was his hand because of that ball he knocked down.

Robert Davies

This individual assumed I was one of the derelicts on Bourbon Street.

Norman Schwarzkopf

We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.

Abby Cohen

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Frederick Pollock

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Shaan

A person who shakes a leg to 'Zor ka jhatka' at a disc doesn't care about its picturization in the film. He enjoys and downloads it because of the merit of the song.

Mike McGuire

Anything is a gamble when you come out with a new product, If you don't take care of your most popular product and innovate it, somebody else is going to take it away from you.

Olga Korbut

And then Richard was, my son was born, and this is another new deed to take care of him and I very happy I have a very good family.

William Ford

The situation is dire for many students, and it has a real impact on the quality of our health care as a nation, ... If costs are so high that colleges have a hard time interesting the most qualified students to become physicians, the medical profession's future is put in jeopardy.

E. Hicks

The situation he's in, everyone wants to win, so he can get the job here or a better job. Through all the stuff I've been through since I've been here, if it weren't for Andy, I wouldn't be sitting here today. He's just been there for me my whole time here. If someone keeps looking out for you, you're going to care for them.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Richard Fuller

Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.

Bible Bible

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 6:40)

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

John Nelson

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend,

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Chris Kapilovic

There's still a long way to go. There's a lot of work to be done. We're not at the level we were last year. We can get there. But it's going to take time and hard work. So far, these guys have responded well and put forth the effort to get that done. But there's still a lot more work left.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Robert Greene

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Jarvis Green

Every time he made a play you heard the fans yelling and that pumped us up, ... He is the same old guy.

Brian Boyle

We've had red and white fans screaming at us before.

Chuck Darby

Every team thinks of their fans as the 12th Man. I don't see why it's a big deal. The 12th Man is our fans, and they made a difference.

Pat Riley

To be honest, at the end of a game like that, I would have liked it to end quietly, but the fans like it.

Joe Pavelski

To win in front of our fans and to give them something back is special.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

Sophocles

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Sophia Bush

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Plautus

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

Philip Roth

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Sergei Bubka

She's still young and will grow and gain in experience.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Dan Reeves

because of what happened to us last year.

James Doe

I don't remember. It happened a long time ago.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Jeff Reed

Who knows what would have happened if I had made that kick?

Joe Szekely

It couldn't have happened at a better time for him and couldn't have happened at a better time for us.

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Ernst Toller

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

Stephen Jay Gould

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

[H]istorical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Cochrane

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas E. Mann

Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Jane Goodall

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

bell hooks

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Aristotle

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

Dominique de Villepin

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

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.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Dave Ramsey

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

John Goldsberry

Drexel is a team a lot like us, they're not going to give up, and they didn't, it was a tough game.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.