Famous Quotes & Sayings

Finding a company who was even willing to talk to us about the possibility was more difficult than we anticipated. Finally, American Sentry Guard seemed to have both the interest and required technical staff necessary to accomplish what we wanted to do.

Orison Swett Marden

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

W. S. Gilbert

We owned it in a business trust, which prevented us from doing some development, and we also thought the timing was right in terms of interest. We were very pleased with the marketing effort, the exposure, the number of credible offers and the way everyone worked together to accomplish the closing before the end of the year.

J. C. Watts

Winning's a difficult thing to start for a program that has lost a lot in recent years. It's hard to break tradition and hopefully we'll accomplish that soon. We need to bring our practice ethics to the game.

Alice Waters

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Barack Obama

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

We're talking about students who may not have even envisioned themselves as college-bound learners. One of the things we try to accomplish is to give them this validation -- that college is a real possibility. It's not going to happen by chance; you need to work very hard, but it will happen.

John Boehner

We need to secure the long-term future of the federal student loan programs, and we can only accomplish that by placing them on a more solid financial footing.

Isabel Allende

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Umberto Guidoni

And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.

John Foxe

We learned by our last trip here (a 13-3 loss in November) that you don't want to start behind. We started 10-0 very quickly. The main thing we wanted to accomplish this time was to start fast.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

The only thing they want to accomplish is more building. They need to decide if they are helping or harming the environment.

This shows how much our senior leadership of Matt Rosenfeld, Matthew Mills and Jeff Bell have really stepped it up. They have taken the view that this team can accomplish great things, and they are pulling the team in with them.

The previous talks helped all parties accomplish a 'word-to-word' goal, and the new round will focus on how to carry out a commitment on the principle of 'action-to-action', which must be a complicated process.

This will accomplish very little, and this totally misses the mark, which is to take appropriate steps to slow the kind of double-digit health care increases we've seen. This is so far off the mark it's incredible.

Flip Saunders

We're trying to accomplish things. Playing a lot of people. Doing some things, playing some full-court pressure, play our bench. But always what happens, when you get in the heat of the battle, competitive juices flow, and our guys got juiced up a bit and really executed defensively and carried over the offensive end.

Aaron Kampman

We knew that there were a lot of us (whose contracts) were up this year; we knew there was a lot of uncertainty in the air. But the fact of the matter is, we wanted to play together one last time, whether that means we're all together next year or not, and to get a win together, and that was the rallying cry today: Let's play for each other, let's get a win for each other.' And I'm just glad we were able to accomplish it.

This time of year, people kind of expect Duke to still be playing. We are excited because we want to accomplish something for ourselves as our part of this storied program.

Dan Wheeler

We can't wait for tomorrow. We're a step closer to what we're trying to accomplish here. I know nobody in this clubhouse wants to go to Atlanta. We'd like to have that day off. We're going to try to do everything we can to win tomorrow. All of our energy is going to go into tomorrow.

Brandon Roy

When I was dreaming, this is exactly what I dreamed about, but it's tough to accomplish these things.