Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Hannah Smith

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Christine Anderson

Eliot believes the way you earn the public and the party's support is by working hard, playing by the rules and speaking about the real issues that matter to the people of this state. Eliot learned this first hand. At the 1994 convention he was forced to go the petition route and after years of hard work in 1998 he was able to earn the support of the delegates. It wasn't easy but it was an important part of the process.

Tony Russa

He's searching. He wants to hit. He believes he can hit. It bothers him when he doesn't hit. But he can separate the game in a classic way, and that says a lot about him.

Ken Starr

no one is entitled to lie under oath simply because he or she does not like the questions or because he believes the case is frivolous or financially motivated or politically motivated.

Paresh Upadhyaya

I don't think foreign investors buy these comments from Snow, and that the U.S. believes in a strong dollar. It is a bit old and one of the reasons why you have not seen the flows into the U.S. to support the dollar.

Michael Parenti

I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

Retief Goosen

I'm glad for Gary. He's such a great competitor, and he probably still believes he can win out here.

George Santayana

The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

James Morgan

The Ethics Board believes that statutes should prohibit this activity. In fact, the Ethics Board has previously endorsed legislation to that effect.

Fredrich

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Mark Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Zell Miller

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Lilly Singh

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

Scott Edgar

I never worked as hard as I did at Duquesne. Never. There are challenges everywhere.

Richard Kimball

Say you sold someone a round of drinks for $17.50, ... You'd ring in $7.50, put the $17.50 in (the register), and put a swizzle stick in the drawer as a reminder that the drawer is up by $10. At the end of the night, if you had eight swizzle sticks in there, you'd pocket $80 before closing out your register.

Peter Cardillo

I would not be surprised to see this market register a new high, perhaps closing at a new record high. But then we'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

James Melvin

If he hadn't had a good system of closing the gates, I think the miller could have drained the lake.

Rick Platt

The closing varies from mid to the end of January.

Richard Grenier

We need to score a goal in the first half in order to win, ... We were controlling (the play) for a good 15 minutes. We just couldn't put a goal in. Again, credit North Smithfield. They did a good job closing us out on defense at the end of the first half.

Jack Tichy

This product is very complex and very sophisticated. It takes a lot of training.

Mary Bravo

When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for displays composed of simple and complex objects. But when the same objects were presented as dense clutter, search functions were steeper for displays composed of complex objects.

Mike Thompson

We'll stay at 68 TB for a year or two, ... But as shots get more complex ... it's hard to tell.

Edward Brooke

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

Suriya

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

Richard Kerr

increases the complexity of their threat to the rule of law.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Bernie Sanders

In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do you think will have the best educated work force and a competitive advantage? We must make tuition free in public colleges and universities and substantially reduce interest rates on student loans.

Ann Davis

We feel there is a lot of prevention that can be done with education. We will never know the potential we have lost.

Hector Flores

We don't want students marching out of their classes. We respect their rights to free speech, but we do not support that. They need to stay in school and finish their education and go to college.

Tina Barnard

We're very pleased. There's a great need for education about asthma. Knowledge is everything.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Tom Saltzstein

He's got a huge upside and he's only going to get stronger. At 6-9, 200 pounds, he's extremely, extremely athletic.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Kyle Doherty

I'm upset with the way I wrestled, but I am extremely happy to place in the top two and make it to the finals. I never thought I would make it to the finals.

Leo Mazzone

I know he can manage in the big leagues and manage successfully, ... He handled the situation extremely well as far as I'm concerned. He did a hell of a job.

Ben Graham

I'm probably not the right person to ask. I've worked extremely hard on everything I've needed to get to this point. I'm still here. I'm not sure how the next week or two is going to pan out.

Domhnall Gleeson

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Kazuo Matsui

I always want to be prepared for the opportunity that is given to me.

Scott Roeben

I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax.

John Redmond

Given Excalibur's location on the Strip, we feel there's tremendous upside by making more moderate improvements.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Ruskin

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Rumi

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

Steven Cojocaru

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Sue Grafton

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Sue Grafton

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Sue Monk Kidd

We become what we pay attention to.

Michael Arrington

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

John Steinbeck

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

Michelangelo

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Larry Rothschild

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Henry Ward Beecher

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Tom Wilson

We want to get them all into school.

Gwen Cote

There is no school in northeastern New York that is accredited.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Stephen Browning

You go look at the Academies and their school is functioning,

Robert Kiyosaki

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

George Peters

There's no way I was going to make it to school today.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.