Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cooter Failla

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

Peter Wong

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Phil Price

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

Ed Patru

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

John Thune

With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,

Wendy Lapham

It's just a strategy that our district and other districts have started to employ. We're trying to ensure that we have a pool of qualified applicants by offering those opportunities in February or March rather than in August. Because by August, many of those candidates have found jobs.

Stuart Rothenberg

It seems to me there's a lot of smoke here, but I don't know how much heat. To the extent that any of these candidates are going to win, they will probably win because they are Democrats in a Democratic wave year, not because all of a sudden voters have embraced them because they are veterans.

James Simmons

It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. I don't think the candidates have to do very much to win votes from those who share their views.

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Ken Perkins

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

Matt Jones

We were too loose. We just talked about ending the district schedule on a good note. We wanted to come in here and win at Bloomington. This has always been tough place for us to play.

Mark Coffman

We're going to try some things this game we normally wouldn't try in a district game. We're going to try to win the game of course, but we're going to experiment with different combinations on the floor to match up with (Midland High).

Mike Shimek

We're going to give our pitchers some extended innings. That is going to be a need when district rolls around.

Mike Loyd

We've got a week off now for tests this next week. I don't especially like having a week off before the district tournament, but that's the way it is. We'll practice a lot. We need to keep on this roll we've been on.

John Harder

It's exciting to be in the championship. I won six districts in a row. I had at least one Division 1 player. This year I don't. I have a hard hustling and working team. They just work, work, work.

Clayton Downing

A lot of the districts aren't going to have money to pay their teachers come July if they don't do something.

Ryan Gray

They've been on for a while, but it would be safe to say in recent years there's been more of a push. The school districts I've talked to do say it's helped with the discipline.

David Maroney

For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are going to see in their lifetime.

Jenny Waters

It was inspiring that we could win districts once. To come back and not be big-headed and win it two more times I think is great.

Michael Shames

The municipal water districts should be playing not just provider of the water, but playing the water cops.

Don Siebert

Some school districts are at their maximum mill levy. They will see a 5.5 percent increase.

Ginger Reynolds

Schools and districts wouldn't face any sanctions because of the lateness of the tests.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Paul Bresson

As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security.

Gernot Nerb

We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we should see expectations improving in January or February at the latest.

Richard Calhoun

Offers accepted, or initiated sales (for single-family homes) were way down also, at only 811 (for January 2006). Only January 2001 had fewer, at 761. So 811 is significant and it means February closings will be way down.

Mike Listerman

The month of February was a really good month. The most important thing is what we do in the next two weeks.

Carl Neill

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.

Liu Yu

The stipulation indicates the regulator may resume initial public offerings in Shanghai in the first quarter of next year, probably sometime in February after the Spring Festival.

Royal Mail

I've been doing this round for more than 23 years. I started in February 1982 and over the years I have made a lot of friends.

Peter Gilmour

The whole legal issue has been a distraction, but since February we've really tried to isolate the sailing team from it,

Dale Tallon

This isn't a good thing, with February being hockey time. It's one of the pitfalls of this year's schedule and the Olympics, but we've got to live with it.

Lee Lewis

that she's taking all those people's money. Jerry Lee told her back in February that he was not participating in the party this year. So she's known since then.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Charles Hodge

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Bernard Werber

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

Bob Marley

Life must be somewhere to be found, instead of #‎ ConcreteJungle .

Amber Frey

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

Neneh Cherry

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Maria Rodriguez

A march is one thing and a movement is another. And that's precisely the point where we are today: how do we move from a march to a movement?

Richard Shelley

The symptoms started on March 1 and escalated over the weekend.

Jeff Parker

The Olympics may seem to be a long ways away, but time marches on.

Nikolai Vlasov

The vaccinations will start, if not on March 10, then on March 11.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Tom Daschle

What we're offering is real jobs, real opportunity and real prosperity -- a plan that works for our country,

Carl Jung

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Glenn Williams

We'll be a pretty competitive club. But when you're in a pool with the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, it's going to be tough.

David Wright

You don't see pools like that anymore. There's so many things to do in that park. Of course, they get there, and of course, they want to go swimming.

Joseph Bernier

The pool is working fine, but it's a 1930s pool,

George Moore

When I was shooting pool that night, he stumbled into the pool table,

Allen West

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Alex O'Loughlin

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

Zhu Zhu

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Summer Sanders

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

Brenda Cleary

Right now, we're turning qualified applicants away from schools.

David Velasquez

To have those relays qualified this time of the season is fantastic.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

Plato

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Mark Spitz

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

David Baugh

There's always a strategy to it, but now unfortunately I can't tell you what it is.

Ross Rubin

It's a continuation of the strategy that they've had for some time.

Ted Forrest

A one-size-fits-all strategy is not the wave of the future.

Alan Stein

The strategy is to prevail. You make the run-off and you go from there.

Thomas Huxley

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Renata Adler

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.