Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Beckett

The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Marc Ganis

Based on these numbers, the Jets and Giants would be among the top three or four most profitable clubs in the National Football League.

Zhiwu Chen

China?s economy is among the most open in the world right now. But I?d like to see more openness politically and legally. I?d like to see more free speech.

Jun Fukashiro

Muto's comment reversed sentiment among investors and it is a reason to sell bonds. They're now thinking the economy is still recovering and yields won't keep on falling.

Richard Jefferson

More than anything, he just got comfortable. He struggled through the first half and didn't get into the flow. But once he gets hot, he's among the best. He's very tough to stop.

Minoru Shioiri

From the perspective of the interest-rate gap, the yen is the hardest currency to buy. Japan is far away from raising its interest rate. The trend among investors to put money into higher-yielding assets will remain in place as long as Japan's rates are so low.

Dave Ogrean

If we were having this call 15 or 20 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about making choices among so many qualified people who are Americans.

Carl Banks

He was a man among boys. He was the guy who set the tone for toughness for our defense.

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know

Toby Hall

Look at these other teams and wonder why they won 30 more games than us, or how'd they lose 40 less than us. It's pretty self-explanatory when you look at the complete rosters of every team. That's what Lou has dealt with,

Sufjan Stevens

I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.

Stone Gossard

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.

Charlie Frye

I just tried to come out and complete my passes. We won the game, so that's what matters to me. I'm happy.

Brian Coleman

His complete failure of judgment and leadership raises serious questions about his suitability for office.

Robert Dunn

His first concern was whether he could stay in the country and complete his scholarship.

Rex Grossman

I'm not trying to be Mr. Whatever. I'm trying to play my role, and the team is excited we have such a good defense and running game. We've established that we're a complete team.

Tony Blair

I hope that in the next few days we demonstrate as a world our complete solidarity in this fight which is so important to us.

Kerrilynn Gallagher

Playing four games is tough on your legs, but now we know the limits in which we can push our bodies.

Barry Trotz

Paul took four penalties. I was ready to strangle him.

Jim Edmonds

Our lineup's been thin all year. We played without three guys for three or four out of six months. We'll be all right.

Cathy Alexander

Our league lost a lot of players. Vail Mountain will be the strong team, but the other four teams lost a lot of players and are all young.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.

Larry Rice

In the past three to four sessions, investors have been getting back into tech stocks. The movement is out of drugs and oils and into Internets.

Ed Clark

In the middle of that process four power plants just tripped off all at once in unison.

Stephen Katz

In the next minutes, I heard four gunshots.

Paul Davis

I really can't see myself where I'm at now four years ago. I feel like I'm a much better player. I feel like I've become a man. I think I'm just ready for anything that life has in hand for me when it's all over.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Chris Ahern

What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Mike Stoops

We give up too many big plays defensively. We are inconsistent. That has been our nemesis for the last year and three games. We have a hard time with consistency.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Eddie Jordan

We're going through some hard times. Let's see how tough and resilient we are.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Mike Dement

You feel like you're there with him, you keep challenging his shot and he just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. We worked hard to stay with him in our defense, but he hit lots of shots.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

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.

Johnny Giles

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Michael Jordan

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Cathy Martin

She tends to take the team on her back. The team relies on her to lead.

Jim Harbaugh

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I love being part of the team.

Gary Neville

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Jack Brickhouse

Any team can have a bad century.

Jay Leno

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alec Baldwin

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Aldo Leopold

I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

Aldous Huxley

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.