Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

Ned Yost

Those guys should be proud, for what they had to do to accomplish that. They started out with a great team, a very talented group of kids. By the end, we had taken all their best players, and they still persevered through it and found ways to win a championship.

Scott Ritter

You know we can't expect the inspectors to accomplish anything in a country the size of Iraq.

When I received the platinum record for 'Coyote Ugly,' I sent it to James because if it wasn't for him, none of this would have happened, ... So I gave him my first one and said, 'Hey, this was for you and I and what we did.' It was just wonderful. It's exciting to see your names as the credits roll by because you're from El Paso and you never think you're going to accomplish so much. I lived in New York for years, and I still had that mentality.

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

Santana Moss

Unless you stay on top of yourself, you're never really going to accomplish anything.

Our goal is to win state. We have the guys that work as a team to accomplish the goal.

Over the years at FPL, we have used TDMF on numerous occasions to non-disruptively move thousands of volumes to newer DASD subsystems. We have migrated data during prime shift with no impact to customer applications or online response times. IBM Global Services provided the expertise to allow us to accomplish a difficult task at reasonable cost, while maintaining data integrity.

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.

Our defense was incredibly tough and the midfield obviously dominated play. This is one of the biggest wins of my coaching career in light of what I hope to accomplish with this team.

Some governments who had been in power previously had attempted to accomplish this and we want to see it get done.

Bruce Hoffman

terrorists can still accomplish their basic aims of fear and intimidation just as well by using entirely conventional weapons -- the gun and the bomb.

Nick Johnson

My theory was that you are not given power for your own personal enrichment; you are entrusted with responsibility to represent the public; power is to be used, to be parceled out over time, so that when one's term expires it is all gone; one uses it to accomplish as much as possible.

Marco Rubio

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

Matt Salmon

My mom told me to stay away from gangs. But if you're asking me about immigration reform, it must accomplish two objectives: Border security must be first, and it must be more than a promise. We have to import workers, not welfare. Anyone who wants to work should, and they should pay taxes, but I don't support amnesty. It's an issue of fairness.

Harry S Truman

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Chris Hadfield

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

I think so. This year I want to spend time with my family, do some TV and see where the fire burns after the season. I was watching Remember the Titans the other day, and it made me think about the emotions you go through. There's nothing that moves you emotionally like coaching. You have high highs and low lows, and to be able to have an impact on young people, to get a group of young men together and accomplish a goal, that is a real exciting challenge for me. You don't get that in any other profession.

Just good will on paper doesn't accomplish anything. We need financial resources.

Richard Petty

Kyle saw the things he didn't accomplish but he could help Adam accomplish.

Landscape-scale restoration is hard to accomplish without extra economic inputs.

I think we're continually getting better. It would be nice to see what we could accomplish if everybody has their best game together. At the same time, it's been nice that there's always been someone to step forward, and that we've been able to recognize who it is.

It has been a great experience for me. From the beginning, I never thought out to accomplish personal goals. It was more of how I could help the team and in doing so, I shined the way I did.

I think we can accomplish that very quickly, possibly within a couple of weeks. I expect it to have broad support from North Dakota voters. I think they will respond overwhelmingly to this.

I think this class is the epitome of what we were trying to accomplish when we developed the 'One of Our Own' program.

I think watching him (Peter) win was as exciting as watching the Red Sox win the World Series. He has the engine and strength to accomplish whatever his brain wishes to do. It's not easy to do what he does, but he can do it all out there.

I think that's going to be our trademark - to do anything and everything it takes to win games. There's a lot of ways to accomplish that, and I expect to see us use them all.

I think that maybe it's not as complicated as it might seem. I'm not a medical expert, but I think anyone with a reasonable amount of skill could probably accomplish this.

Lawsuits seeking to hold the firearms industry responsible for the criminal and unlawful use of its products are brazen attempts to accomplish through litigation what has not been achieved by legislation and the democratic process,

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

Kerry Emanuel

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,