Famous Quotes & Sayings

What's high on the radar for environmental organizations has virtually nothing to do with what people think. If you dig deeper, and ask what environmental problems are you concerned about, water from the tap and the local dump tend to outpace global warming. People, when they think about environmental quality, think about it in their own town.

We've got to forget about this one. We need to be humble right now because state isn't going to be easy. The guys are doing everything we're asking of them, and we've just got to take it one game at a time.

Steve Spurrier

We've just got to get the expectancy level up, ... Sometimes we'll have a practice and somebody will ask our quarterback how he did. He'll say, 'I think we did pretty good,' and we'll start watching the tape, and I'll ask, 'You said you did pretty good?' Playing well, they don't know exactly what that means.

This whole team has a lot of guts and a lot of strength. Each one of these girls is in tip-top shape and ready to go and that's all I can ask of them.

Mike Melvill

This whole program was about keeping everybody alive, ... We were asking three pilots to take some tremendous risks.

When children start putting together in their minds that Santa Claus may not be real, they'll ask questions -- and that's an opening for parents to get them talking about what's logical or not to them.

Daniel Schorr

Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.

We said last year if they wanted it, we could back for an opportunity. All we can ask for is an opportunity to win a state championship, and we're going to get that tomorrow.

We risked our lives for a South Korean dream. But many of us feel like boat people even if we are in the South. I sometimes ask myself a dangerous question. If a war breaks out, should I fight South Koreans or should I shoot at my relatives in the North?

Jeff Mathis

We kept asking him about the nail and he said it was feeling good. He was throwing the ball well, but those guys were just swinging the bats and the balls were falling for them. Those guys are good hitters and that's why they put up the numbers they do.

We keep asking the bank where they think this growth is going to come from. With people increasingly worried about rising household bills, unless there is some stimulus from the bank itself, we are not going to see any substantial growth.

We're out here working hard and we just want honest wages and medical you know. We're not asking for too much.

We're not looking to give people a hard time, but we do ask people to exercise some common courtesy and respect for the beauty of the city.

Mary Ford

Why is it every time I ask for a pair of hands, they come with a brain attached?

Why aren't they asking for it? They don't know? We already know it's going to cost at least a minimum of $60 billion to keep the troops there,

We've decided to have an open forum after the movie. To make comments and ask questions.

We've come to ask for the court's help because the elections were unlawful.

Ben Curtis

To be only one back on the final day is all you can ask for. I had a few chances where I could have taken the lead, but Justin hung in there despite the start he had.

This year, what they're asking of me is something that I've been wanting the entire time I've been here. It's very exciting to get a chance to lead.

We didn't give up, we were out there fighting the whole game. We came out and we played hard, you can't ask for anything more. In the third quarter we just hit a wall.

Tom Arnold

We know that people have saved for a long time for their SSIA and we are only asking for a very small proportion of their payout as this could go a very long way towards helping others less fortunate.

Joe Crede

We weren't able to execute when the opportunities came about. You have to capitalize on other peoples' mistakes. That's what the playoffs ask of you, and you've got to keep at it.

We were worried at first when we thought about it falling on a Sunday, but having it on any other day just wouldn't be the same, ... People ask us why we do this, and I tell them it is so we will remember. It is about the major losses on that day, but also about the losses we face every day.

Tim Walton

We don't pay attention to anything like that. All we're looking to do is to improve every single day and that's all I can ask for as a coach.

We ask our waiters to get the ingredients ready as fast as they can as we don't want our customers to wait with empty stomachs in this chilly environment. But once you take one bite of the steaming delicacies, you would definitely forget the cold.

We ask on this Christmas Day for freedom for our political prisoners and for the Cuban people to have a better future.

We ask not only the families. We ask also the neighborhood. We ask friends. We ask people who know them. And most of these people are completely innocent.

We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for us on offense. But if we (UW-L's guards) are able to hit our shots, that takes a lot of pressure off of him.

We ask Healy to do so much, and I thought she just did really a good job. She's never satisfied, and I'm always on her. She had a great game. She's one of those kids, for us, that is really coming into her own at a time when we really need her.

Sarah McLachlan

We asked all sorts of people from all different walks of music and this is who we got this year, who said yes. I think music crosses barriers and boundaries. If it's good, it's good. We're after good music.

Don Zimmer

We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.

We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott King to march with us.