Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not something you can accomplish by yourself. You need group support.

It's not like I was trying to make a statement to anybody. I just play. What I really wanted to accomplish was win first. Be held accountable for what I do and take care of my responsibility and get a win out of it.

At halftime, we came out and wanted to win the second half and we almost did that. We played much better in the second half. We had a lot more energy and we were able to accomplish some positive things. But in the first half, our youth showed. And that's just part of learning.

It was definitely a little bit better match than the last match we played in Hawaii. We were able to accomplish some things offensively ... to have a deceptive offense, a better offense.

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Our software is not specific to any one piece of legislation. But, if you look at all the legislation out there, it is generally trying to accomplish the same things, so our software works with all the legislation.

Our girls really want to get to the finals, because a number of them haven't experienced that yet. Some of them just want to know what it is like, and I think being able to compete at home really gives us an added bonus to accomplish that chance. We are really excited to perform for our home crowd.

Mike Shannon

Our father constantly stressed how vital a quality education was for us to realize and accomplish our dreams. With our parents direction and guidance, we were we both able to attend and graduate from college. But without a doubt, our best education came from the example they set for us on a daily basis.

Mark Twain

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

Mark Twain

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Virginia Hey

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

John Garfield

When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accomplish so much in such a little time, it's amazing. The kids get all excited. To see them make their first tackle and first touchdown, they break into full smiles. It was a blast.

Joe Horn

We didn't really accomplish what we wanted to do. Going straight down the field and scoring a touchdown is what we wanted to do, and obviously that did not happen. We have to go back to the film and the drawing board and look at it.

Luke Bryan

I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.

Lawrence Halprin

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

To be at a program for nearly a decade is very rare for any coach these days. I hope this shows how much I love the community. We have goals to accomplish and I'm working on making the grass greener at Fresno State.

Warren Christopher

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

Ben Huh

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

We're not sure what the state is going to do, they can meet back in the legislative session in the winter and pass mandates that we have to be able to absorb, its going to take a little time to accomplish what we want here

Wendy Kopp

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Ezra Taft Benson

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ellen Key

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Kevin VanDam

We are like a second family; we spend so much time in the same places. It helps to have friends out there to accomplish anything from things as simple as going out to dinner and picking up laundry to telling each other where the best ramps are or even where to get a fishing license. That's when you look to your team: for those non-fishing-related things.

Deval Patrick

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Kurt Huber

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

We have a lot more we want to accomplish. Our team has a lot more to do and have not reached our top. It was exciting to accomplish our goal this year.

We need to keep our confidence up. If we start over and play well we can still accomplish what we set out to.

E. B. White

We have work crews, but we do a lot of organizing. People there want to help and neighbors get together and accomplish a lot. We give them some direction, and try to get them the building supplies and safety equipment they need.

We just didn't hit enough shots in overtime. Competitively, this loss hurts. But objectively, this team did great things this year and worked very hard to accomplish what they did. I am just really proud of them.

Bruce Williams

We played one of our best games of the year and one of our goals to start the season was to end with a winning season. We were able to accomplish that with a victory tonight.

Barack Obama

We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,