Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Monti

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses to grow. Allowing companies to use these tools for capital reinvestment is a common-sense way to encourage job creation.

Robert Reich

No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Ravi Zacharias

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

Randall Kennedy

All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

Raymond Burr

I do not agree with Thomas Wolfe... about anything. You can go home again as long as you don't expect home to be what it was when you left it. Or you don't expect yourself to be what you were when you left home.

Rani Mukerji

I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

Rani Mukerji

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

Richard Lugar

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

Michael Moore

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Manny Pacquiao

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Manny Pacquiao

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Malala Yousafzai

It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

Malala Yousafzai

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Marilynne Robinson

I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

Scott Niedermayer

We had our fair share of things go against us. We would like to always understand that if you continually work hard, you will have some form of reward. This was one of those things.

We had our chances and opportunities and they had their opportunities, and they finished theirs and we didn't finish ours. I guess that's just the luck of the game. You've just got to learn from your mistakes and not do it again and get better the next time.

Alex Rodriguez

We had our chances. Against a team like Oakland, you start to get a bad feeling if you don't come through. With the mistakes we made and on top of that we had opportunities, but we couldn't capitalize.

We had our best pitchers throwing against South Africa, our best lineup going. You know, sometimes games just happen. That's why you play the game. There's no question that we were on pins and needles.

We had our backs up against the wall today and we had our backs up against the wall in the conference. We needed to do it and (the players) knew it and they came out and got it done.

We had our backs up against the wall. It's the fifth game of the season, you don't want to say it's a must-win, but that's what it felt like, a must-win situation for us and I think the guys responded well.

Andrew Bogut

We had our backs against the wall. We showed great character. If we hadn't worked so hard in practice we would have lost that one by 30,

We had our backs against the wall, so we put a press on. It sort of worked.

Mark Duffy

We had our backs against the wall, and it was a big accomplishment. It would have been easy for us to fold but I'm proud of the kids to go out and work hard.

We had opportunities. You just can't dig yourself too big a hole against good teams.

We had opportunities. And against a good football team, you have to make every one of them count. We just couldn't finish. We could have played better, but we laid it on the line and got beat by a team that played better than we did today.

We had open shots, we just didn't make them. They only scored 60 points, so they didn't kill us offensively. We just couldn't score against them.

Adam Everett

We hadn't played real well against them here, and last year as well. It's nice to come in here after losing a tough game yesterday, and getting the split was huge for us.

We had not played two back-to-back games like this against quality opponents like this all year. Trinity's record might not show it, but they're a quality team. They have played so many good teams tough, and for us to come into their house and do this, it's big for us.

Jon Gruden

We'll probably make those cuts today, ... We'll meet late into Sunday evening here and keep evaluating and obviously get an idea of who is going to be healthy enough to play against Houston.

Bruce Miller

We'll probably end up meeting them again if we do well in the districts. We can do this all over again.

We'll play; we're happy to be in the tournament. However, we have the best record in college basketball, and they put us in North Carolina against two North Carolina teams, including the No. 1 seed overall? That's who we deserve to play?