Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't have much of a margin for error with Nick out. Then our back-up point guard has two fouls a couple of minutes into the game. Against a team like Ontario that puts you behind the 8-ball.

We became good friends and have kept in touch and to see Germany for the first time and catch up with an old pal again was nice, though we meet up each year when Robert comes home in the winter to see his mother when golf in Germany closes down.

Bob Bryan

We became competitors, but we didn't compete against each other. And we didn't become rivals like a lot of brothers do. We love playing doubles together where we can share the victory.

We beat the team from New York pretty easily (scores of 15-0 and 17-0). We played really well against those guys.

We are not against unionization. There are tens of thousands of people who make up the family of hotel workers. Some are union members and some are not, and that's fine with us. But the decision whether or not to join a union is an important one. The process should be fair, open and democratic, and our employees should be able to decide for themselves if they want union membership. It is their job. It is their life. It should be their choice.

We are not against safeguards for L1 visas, but new restrictions should not be adverse. We agree L1 visas should not be misused. But the process should not take too long.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

We are not against protecting the border, but we are also for protecting the community.

Yasser Arafat

We are not against opening talks, but we are in need of results and not talks.

We are not against expanding the government and we are not against forming a national coalition.

We are not against development or growth at all. We would like to see smart growth where key resources such as prime farmland are protected.

We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.

We are naturally pleased that once again the Thai authorities have entrusted us to deliver biometrics for the national ID cards. We have calculated that this second phase of the project is worth about SEK 20 million in revenue during a three-year period. The revenue include licenses for Precise Match-on-Card technology and licenses for fingerprint readers, but we will also receive revenue from maintenance services and sales of hardware.

Victor Valdes

We are more beginners than them in the matter of semi-finals, they are more experienced. We must be careful because the Italians start slowly and then end up scoring against you.

Fidel Castro

We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.

Sven Eriksson

We are meeting one of the best teams in the world. It's important for our confidence that we do well in this game and important for the England fans as well. If they see we can play good football against Argentina it gives us more hope for next summer.

We battled back. We just didn't get enough timely hitting again today. We got enough to stay in the game but not enough to win.

We battled back to about six and they went again on a run. It was a good game but they hit some big shots. I don't know how many they hit, but they hit enough.

We basically wanted to take Spencer out of his comfort zone, and that's hard to do against the best player in the country. We just wanted to make all his shots difficult, and we did that.

We are always happy when we win, but it wasn't a 100 percent portrayal of how we will fare against 4A schools.

Tom Brady

Xavier is a big rival of ours and they are in our league, so it was nice to get that first league win against them. It was definitely fun volleyball.

Rick Atkinson

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck... even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.

Richard Mourdock

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

Pope Benedict XVI

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

Sarah MacLean

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated.

Sarah MacLean

Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.

Simon Hoggart

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past two games). For them to get the ball back right away gave us more momentum. Then we get the turnover and convert on that.

The decision was made to proceed speedily and appropriately to bring UU4 down, weighed against the alternative of shutting down multiple units, creating significant other risks,

The decision was made after substantial documentation of not fulfilling his responsibilities. It was hard for Larry; he's going against someone who supported him politically.

Jim Connors

The decision to utilize a 34K core in our storage network processor design came after extensive internal benchmarking against a competitive multi-core solution. The realized saving in die size and power consumption, coupled with its compelling performance, made the 34K core stand out as the clear winner.

The decision to meet again in a few weeks shows that OPEC's price appetite is pretty robust.