Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Danny Glover

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Paul Stevenson

Rationally, people understand what is happening, but the team and job they love is breaking up. Their grief is about loss - losing a team, an environment, a secure income.

Chris Cornell

Probably before that record comes out we'll be out playing shows again. The idea is just to break down what has been the normal cycle of a year and a half on the road, a year and a half making a record, not get so far away from one world or the other world. I think that that makes better music, I think it makes for a better live show, I think it makes a better band.

Jessica Leonard

People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese.

Cameron Bennerman

Our defense has to be there. We need to get stops and get some fast break transition opportunities.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Zhao Tiechui

Despite the initial progress, it cannot be ruled out that some unsafe coal mines are still in operation, and we will continue to strengthen our supervision and inspection.

Li Keqiang

Development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of India and China.

Li Yizhong

Any mines that cannot meet safety standards will definitely be closed.

Ted Ludwig

Any kind of standard of living that's been established is because of unions. This is a force that cannot go away.

Thomas Mettenleiter

An infection of humans, which theoretically cannot be ruled out, could probably only occur with very intimate contact to infected animals.

Jim Bridenstine

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

John Lydon

I've never said I'm a communist.

Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Janos Kadar

The ranks of the Party will thin out, but I do not fear that pure, honest and well-meaning Communists will be disloyal to their ideals.

Chiang Kai-shek

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

Douglass North

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

Monique Roffey

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

Steve Winwood

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Ron Nelson

We lost all our pitching from last year, but we got a team ERA of like 1.1 right now and I just never imagined that.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes.

Christopher Paolini

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Brock Spack

We'll miss Jim. We've had a great relationship and it's kind of an end of an era because now were down to two (of the original three coaches). But if this is something that he wants to do, I'm happy for him.

Lech Walesa

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Robert Rodriguez

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

Loren Roberts

I wanted to come out here and do well and establish myself early. That's why this win is so sweet to me.

Brian Lane

That's what we wanted to do. We passed a little more last week. We wanted to establish the run this week.

Alex Morrison

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Fred Chao

We all look to Matt to establish the level of play for us. R.J. has made his improvements and Kyle has worked extremely hard and he'll make his impact when we need him to.

Hugh Calkins

There's no diagnostic test to establish the diagnosis, and there's no known treatment for this condition.

Jimmie Lee

We talked to a number of people last night, but there's nobody in custody. We're still trying to establish a motive.

Stephen McCausland

We will try to establish what is the link between these three men but as of tonight there's no known connection.

Matt Mays

What we're trying to do is establish a real fan base, not like an overnight fan base, because the ones that you work for stay forever.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Kim Cattrall

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Vedran Vukusic

This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Brett Favre

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Augustus

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

Jane Fonda

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Jared Diamond

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Dan Ariely

Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.

Brian Weiss

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Bridget Riley

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Jay Johnson

Nobody knew, of course. But they remembered who won the national championship.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.