Famous Quotes & Sayings

We felt like we were one sweep away from getting back in the race, and we were able to accomplish that this weekend. We pitched a lot of freshmen today and it was good to see them come away with a victory.

We're going to work to educate the legislature and work with them to find meaningful ways to address the real issue of the soaring cost of health care. But this legislation will do nothing to accomplish that goal.

We're very pleased to have Kyle here for the next several years. Last season he exemplified himself as an important part of our defense through his work ethic and intensity on and off the field. It helps us to get something worked out with him before free agency, and I think both parties in this case were able to accomplish what they wanted with the deal.

Al Groh

We're very pleased about being able to really accomplish a lot of what we set to do. We had a very specific plan when we set out and tried to stay with our plan throughout. And we feel very positive about being on target in many areas.

We're trying to get a regional aquatic center. We'd like to get an Olympic-size pool, but we're not sure we're going to be able to accomplish that.

John Hickenlooper

You have to recognize that this is the result of the sacrifice and hard work of the employees. In the end, it is the rank and file who find ways to accomplish their tasks with less resources.

Jeff Conine

You focus on your end goal -- to make the playoffs. You know what you have to accomplish every night to do that. You go out there and try to win that game. It's a dogfight. When you have this many teams bunched up this tight, it's almost like the last one standing gets to go to the playoffs.

Aristotle

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.

At the beginning of the season we set our goal of winning the state title. When you set your goals high and finally accomplish it, that feels great.

At that time, we were able to implement processes so businesses could still be served. It's a dramatic example of what a group of business people can accomplish when they have common goals.

At this point, the outhaul is a temporary activity giving us some breathing room to accomplish the central landfill expansion,

At this juncture, given the apparent strength in demand and the narrowing margin on unused resources, I am focused on making sure that inflation and inflation expectations remain well anchored. I do not know how much policy firming will be needed to accomplish this objective.

Don't ever think you can't accomplish something if you put your mind to it.

Scott Drew

There's only so much you can accomplish in practice. We accomplished all that. And we made it through as a team, and still like each other.

There was a large number of educated and accomplish men among my countrymen, and in them the love of music and art was very marked.

There's humility all over our program. We've been through a lot coming back from the Illinois game getting beat like we did. We don't need to remind ourselves of that every day, but that's clearly in the back of their minds. And these guys, they're hungry. They want to accomplish something.

Larry Conley

There's no question that we were not expected to be there. We weren't picked to be in the top two or three in the Southeastern Conference. With nobody over 6-5, there was no way we were going to be there, so looking back, we did accomplish a great deal.

Derek Jeter

There's no sense of accomplishment. We didn't accomplish anything.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Oscar Wilde

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

John Wooden

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Leon Trotsky

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

L. Frank Baum

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

If Don wasn't here for me to turn the program over to, I wouldn't leave. I take a lot of pride in what we've been able to accomplish in the last 20 years.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I don't want to take anything away from them, because they put together a great effort. You definitely respect them as a school and as a team, but just from watching them on film, we thought there were definitely some things we could accomplish as far as getting sacks and getting in the quarterback's face.

How we accomplish a task should not be judged only on the manual procedures involved but also by taking into account the internal controls that we have in place to mitigate the risks involved and ensure the integrity of the data.

Andre Agassi

How she helps me is with understanding the subtleties required to accomplish this task,

John Carmack

I'm usually so focused on the here and now and the soon to be that thinking about what I've done in the past just doesn't occupy much time. But when I do look back over everything, I am quietly proud of all that I've been able to accomplish and all the enjoyment I've been able to let people have with the games that we've created.

Chris Adams

I'm tickled. Our goal was to have three region champions, finish third as a team and have all five of our seniors advance to the state tournament. Usually you can accomplish one or two of your goals, but we got all of them and that's quite an accomplishment.

John Ortberg

In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

In modern biological forms, it's not essential that water be present for DNA to have stability. There are other mechanisms that now exist in biology to accomplish that, and complex biological processes are possible that don't always require water. But in its most basic form, we now know that DNA bases are not stable and they are highly vulnerable to UV-induced damage.