Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Bonds

Besides my kids being born and my wife being so supportive, he kind of really inspired me to come back, ... It was just really heart-warming to know this young kid was rooting for me and told me to keep my head up. Things that we say to young kids, this young man was saying the exact same thing to me. It just really motivated me to work harder and get back.

Nicole Sharpe

When a dog I've taken in and loved -- and you have to fall in love with a dog in order to be able to do a good job rehabilitating it - turns its back on me and gallops off into a forever home with the family it's been waiting for its entire life, when they realize there's something out there besides us, and they want it more than anything, that's the best moment for me.

Keith Tkachuk

We'll have a game plan and I'm sure they have a game plan. If it's a one-year deal where they pick up the option, there's other options besides that.

David Hahn

We'll get a better sense of the state of the sea bottom, state of the ship, besides doing the pollution issues.

Peter Parr

I think if he went on the open market there would be plenty of other clubs besides the Gold Coast who would look at him.

Spike Dykes

He and I will be at the game, but no, we won't be sitting on same side of the field, ... And besides my son, Sonny, is the co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach at Texas Tech.

Jerry York

I think we have seen goals (come) from other players on our team besides Chris, and that makes us much harder to defend.

Doc Rivers

It is nice when you are a scorer like Ricky and you can make a contribution in another way besides scoring. That first quarter might have been the worst defense we played all season, but they turned it around with the way (Davis and Pierce) played in the fourth quarter.

Cammi Granato

Please, ... don't indicate that I brought this up at all. ... Besides smiling about it, I haven't taken it further.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

W. S. Gilbert

It would be great for the kids and great for the community.

Mary Smith

This is an inspiration to me. It will motivate me to continue the work I've been doing for so long. I'm working to make my community better. All of my work is volunteer work.

Jonathan Schwartz

This is an inexorable shift in the marketplace. Open source is not just about software. It's also about hardware. You can't create a community without contributions. You can't write press releases to say you like open source. If you like open source, wade on in and make contributions.

Fred Hahn

This is an extension of that level of detail within the Community Plan.

Bob Kessler

This is an excellent way to be recognized as a community steward and supporter of the fair experience.

Ryan Jones

This is important for our wrestlers who have worked so hard. It's also important for our community to come out and watch them at least once.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Ayn Rand

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Ayn Rand

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Ayn Rand

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

Ayn Rand

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

David Hawkins

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

America Ferrera

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

Chuck Norris

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Thornton Wilder

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Robert H. Schuller

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.