Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Carpenter

Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Byron Dorgan

Seniors should not be coerced into an HMO in order to get drug coverage, ... Is the White House Backing Away from a Comprehensive Medicare Drug Benefit?

Brian Campbell

We're showing them that we're not backing down. I think it shows a lot of character in this room and what the guys are about, how badly they want to win.

Obviously oil backing down a little today allows investors to focus more on the relatively strong earnings performances last week.

No doubt there will be a mad dash at the start, but for us it's a matter of how quickly some of them stop. There will be several of them backing up at the 3/8th pole, and hopefully they don't get in our way when we're running from the back.

People weren't expecting good news from Sun, so it's not a surprise, but there's been some enthusiastic tech news recently and you need a string to keep that going. Sun didn't provide that, and in fact they countered that, so people are backing off a little bit.

I bet that really did stimulate contributions a lot. The censure resolution, and lack of any other Democrat backing it, really put a lot of Bush-haters onto Feingold.

Jose Barroso

I am very delighted that the European Council is backing our call for an energy policy for Europe, that it makes sense to have a common strategy for Europe.

But it's nothing really fundamental: Is it interest rates backing up in the U.S.? Rate expectations backing up? Or the fact that the dollar fell too far too fast last week? It's probably a combination of all of that.

Tiger Woods

More than the length, it's the fact that every ball is backing up. Every ball picked up mud. That's the hardest thing in the world. You can have length, and you can have longer shots to the green, but if you don't have a clean ball, it makes for a very difficult golf shot.

Mortgage rates have dropped, yes, but a weak economy means people lose jobs or feel insecure in their jobs. Some potential buyers may end up backing off from a purchase. When the economy picks up after a slowdown, interest rates usually rise, but that doesn't stop people from buying.

Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water.

France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overthrowing the Deby regime.

I don't think he's got the recognition or the fan backing I think he deserves. He is a really good guy, and maybe everybody doesn't see that.

I wouldn't be worried about it at all. I think it's very natural to see some backing and filling after the gains we've had.

If we get funded to the level (Dutch engineers) get funded and have the national backing they have, we're going to do some fantastic things. There's nothing magical about what they do.

If they are backing out because of political pressure, it's nothing new.

She was backing out when, for unknown reasons, her 2-year-old daughter ended up getting in the back of the vehicle.

Larry Foote

Since I've been here, Joey's always been (trash) talking and he's always been backing up what he says. He talks. He backs it up. That's why we don't mind if he keeps on talking because we know he backs it up on Sundays.

I feel that this lady can do the job. She has the backing of the auditor's office,

He threw only 10 pitches. If he had been out there laboring through a long inning, backing up the bases, you hate to think what would have happened.

Housing is backing off from its leadership role in the economy, but clearly something else is replacing it. The Fed has a little more to do and then they can rest on their oars.

Mentally we know we can beat (teams) and we have confidence in ourselves. Our coach is backing us up.

I think the same. I think we don't really understand how good we are. We've got a lot of potential. Until we show everybody how good we really are, people will really start to believe us and start backing us.

I think the reason that the U.S. would not want to be seen to be backing off from the strong-dollar policy is that it gives the markets the license to sell the dollar. And I think that obviously if we see a weakening economy and a weakening currency, that poses all sorts of problems for the administration and for the Fed.

I think Dan had a great first outing. That's a good way to start the year with the team backing you up and scoring 16 runs.

Standing up to 33 nations, not backing down in the face of the world and the world's superpowers was seen as a great victory.

My question was maybe we need to study this and make sure it's the right step because once we take all the employees and everything under city control there is no backing up,

I'm still backing the miners to outperform because there's no let up yet in the commodities boom. A lot of the good news about demand from China may be understated and you'd have to think this rally has some way to go yet.

That's backing into applications, rather than approaching by the front door,

I was backing up until I hit the fence, and I watched it go by. I couldn't even jump for it, it was too high.

I wasn't backing off. I was hitting good shots all day long. He didn't intimidate me, per se. I thought I had the game to beat him today.

Steve Bruce

I would like to thank the fans personally for the backing they've given us this season. They're a wonderful bunch and even in times of huge disappointment, they stuck right with it.