Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Rodney Harrison

We have a tough opponent this week. We have to get better.

Branco Milenkovic

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Kent Redfield

He would have been running them if he had an opponent or not.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,

Etty Hillesum

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Leslie Jamison

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Cliff Hammonds

That just sticks out in your mind. We just know we've got to come out and redeem ourselves.

Devanei Hampton

We always redeem ourselves. We always come back with a we're-going-to-get-you attitude. We're ready.

Francine Rivers

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Francine Rivers

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

John Waters

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Pope Francis

Do good, we will meet one another there.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Willie McGinest

We have a long road to go. We are not worried about any records. Right now we are just worried about getting better.

George Philpott

We got off to a rough start. In the first event, the medley relay, we were disqualified, and with that long day on the road we just didn't get some of the times we wanted.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have not got down the road that far,

Jason Forte

We haven't had a road win in a while.

Steve Haag

We put 58 units on the road before it even started and we'll keep them going all day.

Jerry Stackhouse

We can't be satisfied with just tying up the series with this win. We're going to probably see this team somewhere down the road in the playoffs.

Harry Reid

Two years ago, when we went into Afghanistan, there wasn't' even a working road grader in the whole country.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.