Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

Mike Tyson

Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.

Phil Jones

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.

Martin Luther

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

Paulo Freire

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Paulo Coelho

We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future

Tom Brady

Like I said, and I've said this, he's a tremendous coach (Weis). He's a great asset to this team from the time he was here and now he's a great asset to another place. We all miss him and at the same time we all realize we can't look back; we have to look forward with the guys we've got.

Tom Glavine

Let's be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad to have him out there for only five innings -- assuming he's healthy and that's the most important thing.

Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide.

(Lucas) was one of the best players I've ever been associated with. I told the team the other day that he was one person everybody should find out something about, so they could be like him.

Make sure the distribution of your assets is right for your particular goals, that your risk versus return is an appropriate tradeoff, and that the same people are managing your mutual funds.

Peter Oppenheimer

Mac unit sales exceeded our internal expectations despite what we believe was a pause in sales associated with the Intel transition.

Magic's greatest asset is his enthusiasm, the way he can lift his team up.

Let's take it one step at a time. Let's take the 30-year and see how that goes. We haven't had such long- duration assets in five years, so let's not go from one extreme to the other.

Bill Bradley

Let me assure you, you are going to be all right.

Pervez Musharraf

Let me assure you that President Bush never talks about when are you taking your uniform off,

Drew Rosenhaus

Let me assure you, he will be playing in the future. He will be dominant. There are a lot of people in the NFL who respect him. He wants to be an Eagle. But do not write him off.

Ben Crenshaw

Length is always going to get its due. Playing shorter clubs into these greens makes a huge difference, I can assure you. But, really, no matter how long or short the course plays, you have to deal with these greens. They have been the main defense of this course, and always will be. I hope they never change, because they are fascinatingly complex.

Lenders can now quickly assess preliminary damage levels on individual loans and determine the overall impact on loss reserves for their entire portfolio. We have already worked with ten of the top lenders in the country, processing over a million loans, to help them determine their investigation strategy.

Tom Crean

Louisville played excellent and they played hard. It was a very hard, intense battle, one of the most intense battles I've ever been associated with. They had a couple more big plays than we did at the end.

Lots of players can do it for 10-15 games but we want to see them do it for 40, 50, 100 or 200 games, winning titles again. That will be the big test. Everyone's assuming they will go from strength to strength. I hope they do because it's an exciting team. They haven't played a physical team away for a while and I hope they have learned the lesson that as well as all the good football you play you have to stand up to those teams.

LBO candidates have several characteristics in common: healthy businesses, stock prices that reflect little respect, stable cash flows, and potential catalysts to still higher cash flows (cost cutting, asset sales, etc.),

Many of the revenues and expenses associated with the new stadium are unshared and are the single largest factor in determining the difference in revenues between the clubs.

Many investors have become a lot more sophisticated with their asset allocations. They're not just looking at fixed-income alone. They're looking to put a portion of their assets in high-yield mutual funds.

Many of the indicators associated with end-of-winter or the beginning of the growing season show very uniform movement ? about a week ? earlier. This is consistent with predictions, and it is scientific evidence that we don't need to wait decades or years to see dramatic climate change ? it's happening all around us right now.

Richard Stallman

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

Louie Gohmert

Many communities, faith-based entities and the state of Texas have drained assets to save lives and help with the enormous multi-state national emergency, and they will need reimbursement to avoid massive financial failures,

Many are unaware of the emotional load associated with money. Everybody has money secrets because people believe it's taboo to talk about money.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.

John Chamberlain

Sears Canada is selling a prime asset that historically has contributed significant earnings and has reduced the volatility of consolidated earnings.

Drew Bledsoe

Sean is an excellent coach who definitely deserves this opportunity. I will miss him, as will our team and organization...I'm sure he will be successful and a great asset to the Saints.

Sen. Santorum is committed to carrying out the responsibilities associated with his official role as a U.S. senator. His remaining time is balanced with the priorities of his family and the challenge of running statewide.

John Mahoney

So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.