Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Brees

We believed we were going to go there and win, keep our playoff hopes alive. Of course, everybody's talking about the streak being broken and everything else. But really, for us, that was just another team in our path and another game we had to win in order to go on and achieve the goals we set at the beginning of the year.

We believe by breaking these talks into phases, we will achieve better results. People can take a break and come back refreshed.

We began an aggressive reading strategy through Reading First two years ago in nearly 100 elementary schools with low reading achievement across the state. These efforts, which involve students in the early grades, will show up on NAEP measures in future years, and will give us a roadmap for expanding this approach to providing professional development, building leadership and strengthening reading instruction in more schools in our state.

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that,

As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.

The decision by President Bush assures our customers that for at least the next 90 days their travel plans will be unaffected while we continue our efforts to reach agreement on a new contract for our mechanics, cleaners and custodians and that no strike or other job action is imminent. We will be working diligently to achieve a new contract during this period.

James Salter

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

To learn about it in some depth, so that we understand the background, the thinking and hopefully then we'll work with the Onondaga Nation and their people to achieve a just and fair resolution to their action.

John Bolton

Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.

Michael Campbell

Tiger seems to find that sense of confidence all the time. We try to achieve that every time we play, but it doesn't come to us that easily. We can all do certain things with the golf ball. It comes down to talent, obviously, and mind-set ? how strong you are mentally.

Ma Jian

'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

Condoleezza Rice

tremendous opportunity to achieve real security and lasting democracy and true reconciliation in the Balkans.

While the 40-year mortgage may not be right for everyone, it does offer first-time home buyers another way to help achieve their goal of home ownership.

We needed to achieve a 600 percent increase in file system performance.

We know there are things we need to work on but for our first game we're confident we can address those and continue to get better. We don't take anything for granted, though. We know that if everybody considers us as the No. 1 team we'll be the team they all try to take down and that means a lot of very physical games. For us to achieve our goal of winning the championship we have to stay healthy and take care of our bodies.

Henry Paulson

While we know that we cannot expect to achieve these results every quarter, we continue to see attractive opportunities.

Sathya Baba

Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.

Oliver Kahn

We can achieve something unique in German soccer and that's giving us an extra push.

We can achieve great things this year. I have really high hopes for the girls.

Mukesh Ambani

We are now investing in each of our businesses to achieve substantial earnings growth in the future and create further value for millions of our shareholders.

Alejandro Toledo

We are now beginning to see the fruits of the sacrifice it has taken to maintain discipline and achieve sustained economic growth,

Dieter Zetsche

We are not satisfied with last year's results. We can only safeguard the future of our company and the jobs of our employees if we achieve profitable growth.

Luiz Scolari

We are not ready yet for the World Cup. When we reach Korea we will be ready. If we show our quality, we will achieve our objective.

Stephen Fleming

We had done everything pretty well up till them and it just showed if you want to achieve something like 5-0 then you're got to stay with it right to the end.

We focused our style to personality-based and that, in combination with having the B.C. Lions' rights, enabled us to achieve our highest ratings ever, even without NHL hockey, ... The lockout itself was such a soap opera, too, with 'Are they coming back? Are they not coming back?' and people would tune in to get their dose of information.

We have a history of success and tradition of doing well in sectionals. Its good the girls get a sense of what we're doing. I think the girls are seeing if they do what they are responsible for, we can achieve success.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have agreed to the findings and recommendations to strengthen our alliance and achieve strategic objectives, ... Now is the time to move forward with the transformation of our alliance.

We have a good record of accomplishment and are very proud of what we are doing to promote our cultural heritage. When people come in, it's hard for them to let go. They reminisce; look at the value of what we are sharing. We cover a gamut of generations.

We will achieve our 2004 earnings objectives despite a tough competitive environment,

We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.

We have believed all along that it's people power that will help achieve our objective.

We have been very supportive of the reforming of the exchange-rate regime, but implied in that support is taking them at their word that over time they'll achieve greater flexibility and an exchange rate that increasingly reflects underlying supply and demand,