Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

John Toshack

I will now not see these players for about four months so there is no point in not saying how I feel. I have never been one for avoiding the issue,

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Henry Hyde

as we enact these reforms, we must exercise some care in avoiding unforeseen consequences.

Washington Post

As President Bush prepares to visit India, the question is whether he can cement the improvement in US-India ties while avoiding negative spill-over effects.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Tom Ridge

They tell us that avoiding panic and confusion in a crisis helps them do their jobs better. So when you protect yourself, you're protecting your community, and it's one less concern that the first responders have at the time of an incident,

Ram Kumar

It started as a quiet and calm demonstration as we had promised for the sake of avoiding any hassles for the innocent bystanders but the police turned it into violence.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it is very important not to make a big deal out of it, because it is not, ... President Bush is always welcome to California.

Tony Juniper

He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.

Roger Kubarych

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Brian Harman

President Bush is such a great guy. He's very down to earth. We actually talked some about Georgia football. I told him I think he's doing a heck of a job.

Larry Sabato

President Bush is stubborn, and he doesn't like change. He likes a stable home environment.

Scott Rasmussen

President Bush isn't real to most people. But a lot of people meet the governor and feel they know him.

Louise Slaughter

President Bush is doing everything in his power to restrict and eventually eliminate a women's constitutionally protected right to abortion.

Taren Sapienza

In my heart, these survivors represent the city that San Francisco became. They personally may not have poured the cement and pounded the nails, but they rebuilt the city.

Gary Bettman

His achievements further cement the Hull family legacy of hockey greatness.

Jeremy Cannon

I just saw my opportunity and took it. I got out front and had him in a front headlock and hit him with a cement mixer.

Marie Zdechlik

I had to chip cement off some of the tiles. But, oh well. You do what you have to do.

Edgar Jimenez

The cement industry is expected to perform well last year.

Fred Dexheimer

They harvest the grapes, put them in stainless steel or cement tanks, and that's it.

Ken Simonson

For 2006, I expect to see healthy demand for nonresidential construction but also double-digit price increases for many construction inputs. I expect continuing spot shortages of cement that will push concrete prices higher nationwide.

Shirley Williams

.The reports indicated that the problem is so severe that there had to be demolition of construction in some instances where the cement was used.

Gary Bettman

The National Hockey League will miss Brett's skill, his scoring touch, and his fun-loving attitude. He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player, and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind. His achievements further cement the Hull family legacy of hockey greatness.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

George Cunningham

I think it's very nice. It's a big improvement.

Tyra Banks

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

Keith Fithen

I'm seeing a lot of individual improvement. They just have to come together as a team.

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Mike Tice

I was a little annoyed, ... The tone was stern, stern. I didn't throw anything, but I talked negatively for the first time in two years.

Russell Lynes

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Saul Alinsky

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

William Faulkner

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

Mitchell Hurwitz

It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

Lisa Carr

I train and teach, ... Teaching prepares you for anything.

Julie Davis

It was a lot of responsibility and a lot of work, but it also prepares you better,

Senator Kerry

If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Phil Garner

His shoulder is impaired, there's no question about that from anybody. But definitely, you can make too much of what you see or don't see today.

Scott Hannan

We've got to salvage this trip. We have to win, no question about it.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Tracey Smith

I'm sure he'll be tried one way or the other. The question is how and when.

Michael Cimino

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?'

Bill Crawford

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Vinnie Jones

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

Wu Bangguo

The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.

William Shockley

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

Walter Bagehot

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

W. H. Auden

Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

Walter Smith

The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.

William H. Wharton

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

Emile Hirsch

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

Rob Bell

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

Mary Lasker

In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.

Natalie Rule

I know that he's never visited this website.

Ari Fleischer

These visits will be rescheduled when circumstances permit.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.