Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Jim Barnes

As determined as you are, you could accomplish anything, and running a marathon is more mental than physical.

Wayne Gretzky

Ballard's hit tonight was a tremendous hit. I haven't seen that in hockey in 30 years, a hip check like that. We've got to keep believing what we're trying to accomplish here and stay within ourselves, not get too emotionally excited and not get too down, simple as that.

Santonio Holmes

That personal decision should always be second. Knowing you have a few other things to accomplish before making that personal decision, means that you should put that personal decision aside and take care of the task right in front of you.

Our design engineers worked with suppliers to accomplish a very significant mass reduction and consequent cost reduction in the radio. It allows us to pass these valuable savings on to our customers.

Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Jorge Cantu

Actually I am a little bit surprised. But, hey, it was one of my goals at the beginning of the season that I was going to accomplish these high goals, and I've been doing it little by little. So even higher goals for next year.

Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese government's principle is, spend less ... accomplish more.

Paul Coffey

A night like this wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lot of people. It takes a team to accomplish the banners that are up here in this building.

The senior leadership will play a big factor if we are to accomplish our goal of getting to semistate this year, ... They are integral in how well the team does and how well the other guys come along.

Arlen Specter

The Senate and the Judiciary Committee can accomplish more in three cooperative hours than in three days or three weeks of disharmonious activity.

The specific thing we're trying to accomplish here is to stabilize a neighborhood that probably, if nothing is done, will continue to deteriorate,

Kit Bond

The technology does not exist to accomplish what proponents want, ... If I had a magic wand, I would be happy to wave it and support a 90 percent reduction. But I don't.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

The thing we wanted to accomplish with these games on Sunday and Monday (was) to give a number of players 90 minutes for the first time in a long time. Out of both games, we had 15 players who played a full 90 minutes and two others that played 90 minutes over two days and that's a real plus right now.

The things he can do, he means so much to this team. To lose a guy like that is devastating. We can still accomplish our goals. We will accomplish our goals. No one man makes the Georgia Bulldogs.

I've always tried to work as hard as I could an accomplish as much as I could in whatever I am doing.

Bill Ford

I've always had a problem with setting goals. I know when I get out I will be able to accomplish that goal. It will make us better people in the long run.

I've also been mayor in a city that's five to one Democrats over Republicans. And I think I've been able to accomplish as much as any other mayor in the city, some people believe a lot more,

Kenenisa Bekele

I've achieved everything there is to accomplish in cross country. I've competed in the cross country world championships for six years and now it's time to step aside and make way for some of our younger athletes.

The mourning process is not over. That will go on for a long period of time. I think he felt there were things he had to accomplish still this year, and he had to get back to the task of doing it.

Southwest Airlines is making a commitment to Hispanic youth through this education award. We want to help students as they accomplish their dreams of attending college and becoming teachers. We believe it's important to prepare this generation of students whose goal is to prepare many future generations.

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

Sometimes the toughest games to win are the ones you're supposed to. I was proud of the girls for keeping their focus and understanding what we're trying to accomplish and not getting caught up in what our opponent is doing.

Sometimes it takes one at-bat in one game for the light to go on. You can accomplish a lot by doing what we were doing with Duffy today.

Sometimes people overlook my stats, but I'm not like the kind of guy to go out there to get a bunch of attention anyway, ... I just go out there and play. I had over 1,300 yards (combined in 2004) in 13 games and 10 touchdowns, and it is not easy in the NFL to accomplish that.

Sarah came out of nowhere. We knew she was fast in practice but she hadn't run the 100 yet in competition and for her to accomplish this is just fantastic.

Realistically, we thought of this as a game that we should be able to come in and win. With the experience that we have back and with what this team was able to accomplish a year ago (when IUS qualified for the NAIA National Tournament), we had high hopes coming into the year.

I've said all along that the key thing is that we finish up this season on a positive note so that these guys feel good about themselves and feel good about what we can accomplish next year. That's the biggest impetus and with the way we're finishing up, I think everybody feels the same way, that this team has a chance to be a real nice basketball team if we continue to work at it.

It would be nice to accomplish my goal, but it's not a big deal if I don't do it. I am just looking to soak up the experience and finish the race, so we can raise money for the people who need it.

Lavoy Allen

It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot of things.

Drew Brees

It was tough to know that was the end of our chances to make it into the playoffs. To come home and get to spend time with family, I think that got everyone's mind off it a short period of time and allowed everyone to take a deep breath and see what can we accomplish this last game.