Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

Tim Evans

It is pretty clear they were attempting to move this oil into a crude oil market where there was already a surplus.

Rick Barnes

I have no problem with Daniel attempting to find out what his status may be in the upcoming draft. This is a good rule put in place for players to explore their draft status.

George Orwell

This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history,

Tony Scott

It was just a different way of doing things, and I'm often criticized for attempting difference, which is misinterpreted as style over content.

Janet Reno

They will not see marshals at 2:01 today attempting to take the boy by force. If we're compelled to enforce our order, we intend to do so in a reasoned, measured way.

Henry Cloud

You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

Hanan Ashrawi

It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.

E. Hicks

It's not that he was Michael Jordan, but who is filling the 10 (points) and four (rebounds per game)? Who is even attempting that? Somebody just has to step up.

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Bill Dreher

I really would be surprised if they filed. The part of the equation that is missing in a typical bankruptcy situation is that vendors are not clamping down on them. Vendors are not limiting the distribution of merchandise.

Alan Martin

The cost will be borne by the bankruptcy estate. It is not completely clear how broad the scope will be. All of these administrative expenses must be paid at the time the repayment plan is implemented. That is a big deal.

Joe Miller

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

Brian Riedl

The biggest economic danger of the next 50 years is the coming crisis in entitlement spending. The problem is the entire health care system is in crisis. The entire U.S. health care system needs to be overhauled. If not, it will literally bankrupt the federal government.

Jamie Dimon

The bankruptcy surge in 2005 will give us a benefit.

Steve Stallone

They want to fine the union into bankruptcy and put our leaders in jail.

Bobby DePace

They'll up the ante because they now have the bankruptcy judge behind them.

Tom Price

I've gotten a better response since the bankruptcy filings.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Ed Zander

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.

Thomas May

We are extremely pleased. Taking product companies as hostages has never been a solution. I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal.

Rich Gordon

To figure out how to keep these companies strong, how to work with them in a way that keeps them viable.

Luke Visconti

What you see at the top of our list is that the companies have roughly a 65/35 ratio of white workers to workers of color. That far outweighs the labor pool in this country.

Wayne Lee

What you see are companies on the rise.

Lou Jiwei

We may consider implementing this special tax from next year. The companies are enjoying record profits because of the oil they extracted from the country.

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Tony Lewis

He's got a ways to go. He has the speed, but he's got to sacrifice in the weight room. The one thing about it, you can develop strength. There's not a lot you can do to develop the innate.

Soma Somasegar

Historically, we focused on the independent developer. We wanted to make such developers highly productive. Visual Studio 2005 is no different.

Ray Corn

I thought we had an opportunity of winning this, but a few things would have to happen. It really did develop that way. ... I saw mistakes by Boise State and Southern Utah and felt the door was open for us to win.

Tony Dungy

I think we have a pretty good team. We're still young, we still do things defensively that need some explanation at times. We play very hard, we practice well, we stay focused and those are all good signs. We have a lot of talented guys, so if you can keep that focus, we should be pretty good. I think we are developing into a good team.

Jalal Talabani

I am here to further develop the history-honored relations between the two countries. I also come to thank the Iranian government and nation for their sincere help to Iraq,

Gerry Fleming

He has to develop strength in that arm.

Doug Schreiber

He has really come up big for us in some long relief stints. He is someone who has taken some time to physically and mentally develop at the Division I level, but he has worked at it.

Joseph Conway

Now we have to be even more diligent about it.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Rob Simmons

Indictments of any kind are serious, ... That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Kirk Ferentz

I mean this with all due respect, but it's not really on my laundry list right now. I've got other things that have moved in front of it.

Kermit Ruffins

I know that we're gonna be back in New Orleans, swinging like we've never swung before, in due time.

Krista Conte

The feeling is, we're due for a major catastrophic event to occur here. We're doing this in order to preserve the promises we made to the large majority of our customers.

Phil Johnson

Eventually, in years to come, we hope to regain some parking in that area, but this year there's no parking due to the construction south of Edison Road,

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

E. Stanley Jones

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

William Least Heat-Moon

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

William Butler Yeats

I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

Winona LaDuke

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Two Chainz

I see myself as a leader and not a follower.

Thomas Berger

We may not get a leader who is as cooperative as Koizumi.

Bill Grant

He was not only a leader of the party, but he was a confidant of the party as well.

H. Hunt

He was our only returning senior who played a lot, and I thought maybe he would try and be the man, but he was our leader in the way he played team basketball.

Quincy Douby

I am a leader on this team, and I'm the one taking a lot of the big shots in big games. It was my time to step up and take control.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Rob Reiner

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

George Hayes

I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to the store. What are some things you have that someone down there needs even more than you? What can you do without.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

John James

You can't get off the script, or it's going to throw the kickoff time. That's the main thing, to keep ESPN's 11:02 (a.m. EST) kickoff time on schedule.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

Rose Tremain

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Emma Snowsill

I never go into a race thinking about winning. I just think about how the race will unfold and what I have to do to piece it all together.

Nate Berkus

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

Heather Mills

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Bill Henderson

The milling and resurfacing part of the project is part of our regularly scheduled maintenance,

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Jim Soukup

The whole project should take about two weeks.

Jerry Smith

This is a project that is desperately needed,

Lou Duggan

This project would have never worked if it hadn't come from the youth in this town. They've come up with things we never would have thought of.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Scottie Pippen

He's a very talented player. He's got the size and the skills. There's no reason he can't do even better than what I did.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

William Cowper

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

William Eggleston

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

Robert Bresson

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

May Sarton

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Fay Weldon

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

George Soros

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected