Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Carl Icahn

I think you would now agree that this would have achieved a far superior result for stockholders,

Dave Loos

I think the big thing about Chuck is he has done this all behind the scenes with very little fanfare. Yet all of these athletes could not have achieved any of their goals without him and the people that work for him.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion.

Merrill Stabile

It is our current assessment that the gaming commission, as well as public opinion, will more than likely favor those gaming applicants possessing the greater magnitude of scope in their proposal.

Danielle Clark

We look at the API as another tool in our assessment bag. We use it as a means to look at where we can improve. Now we have got an idea there are a couple of sectors in our student population that may need more support.

Kenville Layne

He looks like a player that I can invest in. His off-the-ball movement is excellent and he knows where to go in spaces to receive the ball, but I will be able to make a better assessment of him on Sunday and decide if I really need him.

Ricardo Sanchez

My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

Vladimir Putin

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work

Mark Regev

Our assessment is that the jury is still out.

Shane Oliver

Our assessment is that Australian shares will continue to outperform mainstream global shares over the next year, thanks to a combination of higher dividend yields, slightly stronger earnings growth (helped of course by the resources sector) and franking credits.

Laura Ahearn

Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.

Eugene Kim

Repair and assessment operations are going on as we speak and the hurricane season is just around the corner now. Resources are already stretched to the limit.

Jill Sales

I think it's cool how she's well balanced between hockey and school. I just think it's neat how someone can excel at both.

Lorne Calvert

To further production in China means the use, more and more...of fertilizer, ... The Chinese farmer is, more and more, experiencing the benefits of a balanced fertilizer approach.

Alexander Kalugin

It is important for the international community to make balanced moves in the present situation.

Gary Ladd

Children begin their lives in the social world of their families, however, as they mature they are introduced to the social world of peers and spend increasing amounts of time with kids their own age. The types of relationships they form differ from those they have with parents and siblings and teach them unique skills that impact their development. Peer relationships are more balanced and the partners tend to bring similar levels of ability, reasoning and skill to their interactions.

Lynn Coady

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Randy Allen

I like what I see. We're up 27 schools from last year and we've balanced the regions a little better. We're using a slightly more challenging lane condition, not as tough as Sport Bowling, but something that's tougher than the normal house shot, and we have some new bowling centers participating.

Bruce Miller

I haven't seen this region, or many others for that matter, that are this balanced where you play a solid team each week. There are no games on the schedule that you can point to and say 'we should win that one,' ... You can't relax on any week. But I think that makes everyone better.

Kevin Burke

I have trouble looking at each one of you in the eye and saying it's a balanced budget, ... This is a fundable budget.

Muhsin Muhammad

I'm looking forward to catching some passes from Rex and just making the offense better and more balanced. Throughout the season, we've predominately been a run offense. I'd like to see us be more balanced so that when we go to the playoffs, we're not one-dimensional.

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Joe Malugen

We look forward to closing the Hollywood transaction promptly. With a broader geographic presence and greatly improved distribution capabilities and scale, our combined company will be a strong competitor.

Michael Sheldon

Intel's news is going to hurt techs tomorrow. I think if the payroll numbers are disappointing, too, you're going to see a broader sell-off.

Charles Crane

If there's any doubt about this bull market's stamina, yesterday should have quieted some of those doubts. There was no news, positive or negative, in the marketplace. And yet the Dow rose to an all-time high and the broader market was strong as well.

Tom Vosa

In the short term these difficulties won't have too much impact because of the broader trends that are under way. But if this continues it may start to have an impact on the strength of house prices and inward investment.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Stephen Voss

In any case, narrower representation has more power than broader interests.

Richard Hunter

The certification is important, especially for customers who want to export their product. It's a much broader market than what we had before. I'd probably say over half of our business right now is medical.

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

John Schuerholz

He's a good young player and he's going to have a fine career. He'll develop like all of our young guys have developed -- at his natural pace. It will happen when it happens.

Randy Caldwell

Good developers have always known the value, but it's become much more prominent in the last five to 10 years that more developers are seeing the value of working around trees.

Tony Lewis

He's got a ways to go. He has the speed, but he's got to sacrifice in the weight room. The one thing about it, you can develop strength. There's not a lot you can do to develop the innate.

John Giannini

He's a very gifted player, and he's really worked hard to develop his skills. In the short term, we couldn't have had the success we've had (this year without him). He has helped turn the program around this year.

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Kip Hawley

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

Tom Harkin

The industry's efforts so far have been woefully inadequate,

Mike Taylor

The industry-leading performances of Continental and TWA can be attributed to their efforts to encourage employees to listen and respond to the needs of their passengers.

Larry Wachtel

The fundamentals have undercut any efforts for the market to rally on Iraq news,

Jalal Talabani

Efforts have been made to reach agreements, but this is a historic issue that needs more study, ... We need more time.

Mary Harris

Efforts at keeping students involved and in school are an ongoing endeavor.

Richard Grimes

We must endure the monotony of evryday work to be able to finance our dreams.

Robert Gottlieb

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Gustav Mahler

Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?

Neal A. Maxwell

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

Tennessee Williams

I must endure & endure & still endure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

Lindy Ruff

We're in no hurry to get them in the lineup to sacrifice their health. We're gonna work our way through this, and if we have to endure a little more pain we'll endure a little more pain.

John Schuerholz

You don't like to see that happen to any young player. But of all the people that we could have had to endure that, he would have been the best.

Tobias Wolff

A novel invites digression and a little relaxation of the grip because a reader can't endure being held that tightly in hand for so long a time.

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

William J. Clinton

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

Robert Cailliau

Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.

Robert C. Solomon

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it...

Salvador Dali

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Wesley Clark

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

Vinod Khosla

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Jim Jones

He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring.

Walter Benjamin

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Salman Rushdie

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Vincent Price

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Walter Lord

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think we're far away from each other.

Chris Palacios

I think we're set up well for (today) as far as the relay goes.

Ike Nwaelele

I think we've had a good ride so far and we want to keep it going. I think our team showed a lot of heart by (playing hard).

Ira Black

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

John Mathews

I think what people want to know is does Toyota get it when it comes to trucks. The answer, as far as I am concerned, is a resounding yes.

Gregg Popovich

I think that (cutoff date) is getting close, probably. I can't imagine it being too far past the All-Star break.

Scott Bowers

I think at times we forget how young he is. (Tuesday) and up in Orlando on Friday he was by far one of the better players on the field for us and for the other team.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Don Garber

In the immediate and long-term future, today's news will prove to be a historical turning point for the sport. These recent developments further solidify soccer's standing and value as a major television property in the United States with even greater future potential.

Ian Shepherdson

(The GDP and inflation data) won't prevent modest further easing,

Daren Brown

The further it went out there, the slower it went.

Craig Cook

The further away from the ski hill you stay, the better the price and the accommodations.

Hubert Humphrey

The negotiators did a good job, but we have a lot further to go,

Kiki Vandeweghe

The NBA has levied a pretty serious fine. So what we're going to do is support that like we do all the NBA's action. We're going to take no further action.

Bruce Steinberg

A further deterioration in the labor market is inevitable.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.

Ralph Carlson

I think it's going to be a happening. I'd recommend going there. It's part of history.

Brian France

I think it's going to go down as an important point in our history. And I know they're (BEGIN BRACKET) Toyota (END BRACKET) looking at it from a long-term view.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Jeff Sessions

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

James Baker

There are no uniform, objective standards here. It's all subjective,

Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Khaled Mashaal

As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right.

Khaled Meshal

As long as we are under occupation then it is our right to resist.

W. S. Gilbert

A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!

Abdul Salam

The results of the referendum were not surprising as the whole process is supervised and protected by the US occupation forces,

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Confucius

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Donald Trump

in a period of not too many years.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Leroy Shafer

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

John Foxe

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

John Rentoul

But that's not to say it's not sincere as well.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Imogen Poots

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Rob Woodall

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Yahoo Serious

I support all Australian films.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Rudy Giuliani

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.