Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have no control over prices. We accept that they're high, and of course, we want them to come down.

I had no idea. We had the paperwork, but it was an oversight. No excuses. Whatever happens, we'll accept it.

I had to put myself to the side and focus on the other guys. It was tough at first, but now that I've accepted that role, I'm playing my best basketball of the season.

Robin Gibb

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

I had never canned jams and jellies so we tried that. This year we are going to add jalapeno pepper jelly and canned squirrel. The canned squirrel was Smokey's idea. We asked the Fair Board to add it to the list of acceptable items and they did.

Jenny Thompson

I grew up in New Hampshire and was proud to be an Olympian from the state. The message from the largest university in the state is that it doesn't support Olympic sports, and I can't really accept an award from a university that does such a thing.

Jeff Conine

In 2001, I played four different positions and I had a really good time doing it. I accepted it as a challenge. Every indication is I'll be out there quite a lot.

I never really worked with watercolor very much. I messed with water-based paints in high school and stuff, and out of the Northwest that was a more acceptable tradition as a main voice, you know, with Graves and Toby.

Yasser Arafat

I told Foreign Minister Ivanov that we officially accept the joint Jordanian-Egyptian initiative as well as the report of the Mitchell commission and view those documents as a basis for rapid and resolute actions towards ending the dangerous escalation of developments in the Middle East.

Brandon Roy

It's a matter of how much they accept him. I can't see him coming up here, I think it would be tough for him to show his face. If I did that to an Oregon player and walked into their gym in the summer, people would wonder what I was doing there.

Jim Boeheim

It's a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That's a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him.

Brian Williams

It's an accepted TV news style that can fall into a pattern. I'd like to avoid it. ... We've all done shots like that. (But) it's still the best way to tell another human being, 'This is what 80 miles an hour feels like.'

It's an accepted strategy that has been widely used. You buy a premium product, and the increase in subscribers more than offsets the cost. Golf is a strong TV sport. I think you'll see the channel grow in subscriber base over the next two to five years.

Bill Gates

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

Tom O'Brien

It looked like it was awful far off. We were fighting for our lives last year just to survive in the Big East with all the things swirling around us. We were just relieved that, as of July 1, it was over and we were definitely accepted into the conference and we look forward to a long relationship being in the ACC.

E. O. Wilson

It'll take Joe a little while to accept that he's not a Bruin anymore, and I can understand that. You tend to think about the team that didn't want you as opposed to the team that did want you. Those feelings are going to be there and we'll help him deal with them.

It's hard to define. A lot of work gets accepted on the gut level.

It's difficult to avoid the park, but we are trying to come up with mutually acceptable solutions.

It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

It was not accepted nearly as widely as a sport, particularly not accepted as a big-league sport.

Michael Young

It was miserable. I made no secret about that. We have too many good players on this team to accept that. ... I want to be part of a winner. I want to win championships.

Paul Tergat

It was my dream to race against him again. But to start the race and be forced to stop wouldn't make sense. We are human and this is the human body. I have to accept it.

George Gregan

It was a great effort from the guys but we're a team which doesn't accept losses.

I walked up to the customer, and said, 'I think I know what she wants,' ... They bought the rug and he never said another word about me not selling. He was born in America, but was an Armenian man from a different era. He adapted and accepted the idea of a daughter in a non-secretarial position, and he complimented me to everyone.

I've got to grow up and act like a football player. Everything is not going to go the way I want it to go, and I've got to accept that and learn how to deal with it.

It was the first time I blasted them all year. You can always accept physical mistakes. But there were 5 or 7 times where we got the ball inside and the guy didn't even make a move to score. We've just been struggling on the offensive end.

It was the coaches' decision, but I accepted it,

Shaquille O'Neal

It was a shock to me. I found out when (the media) found out. I didn't know what was going on. Stan came in and talked to us and told us his reason for stepping down and we have to accept that.

Tom Daschle

It was as close to a tie as history has ever seen, ... I fully support and accept the results of this election, let there be no mistake about it. But we all know that the vice president received more than 300,000 votes and the issue is: Now, where do we go from here?

Bill Foster

It was a surprise. I'm not going to say I'm not going to accept it. But somewhere in this use agreement, we're supposed to approve it.

It will be an interim government, and they will be working toward a constitution that's acceptable to indigenous people of this country.

It's a way to give back to the community that has been so supportive and so accepting of a displaced New Yorker.

It's a compromise - two broken arms and a broken leg later, we've indicated publicly we can accept this legislation, but we've given up some things.