Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hadley

What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we'll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction.

What's unusual is you're talking six weeks where the pattern was essentially fixed. Blocking patterns happen pretty much every year in the Pacific but six weeks is a long time.

Jerome Bettis

What Stevens said is true; their job is to make sure it's not a big block party after the game. Our job is to make sure everybody gets a ticket.

We 'wen block all this from flooding my house inside over here. We've got to do something, and this is coming worse too. This is coming way worse.

Scott Walker

We showed we could play with them and score five-on-five, which was important. I don't know if it was a mental block or what, but it was good to get those. Guys were going to the net hard and it made a difference.

Jason Campbell

When it happened, it hurt my feelings. But deep down inside I had a lot of pride. I knew that I could still go out there and do it. It was just a block in the road. You have to keep the faith. It's just a test of your faith.

We felt we had enough opportunities, but we didn't execute offensively. We're proud of our kids. They played with great heart. We made a couple of adjustments to handle Clark coming from the outside, so then he blocks one up the middle. The Kaminski interception set us up in the red zone, but we didn't convert.

We had a counterculture then, a huge block of people who differed with the values of our society. In that era, things were polarized to the extent that a person would wear either a peace sign or a flag.

Logan Mankins

We had a breakdown. People were blocking the wrong guys.

We had a tough time blocking them. We had a tough time tackling them. We didn't do a good job as coaches. We didn't do a good job as players.

We had a tough time blocking, tackling, and didn't do a good job as coaches and players, ... We didn't open up enough holes and sustain enough blocks on offense. It's always a combination of things, and we just need to keep working and get better.

Billy Graham

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

Imre Kertesz

I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

Bobby Bowden

You can't. But I know this: Joe's teams block and tackle.

Barry Alvarez

We had a specific block put in. It would have had a chance, but the punter cooperated by dropping the ball.

Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict, ... Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

Tonight we just went out and got the job done. It was a total team effort. Sutherlin did a good job of blocking some of our hits, and our defensive players did a great job of covering and picking up the dig off the blocks.

Nikolai Khabibulin

Tonight, I got to see the puck. When I didn't see it, guys were blocking it. If there were any rebounds, they were clearing them.

There is always room to improve. Our blocking needs to get better.

Jane Byrne

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.

We're very hopeful that it will be a terrific success down the block here.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Orson Scott Card

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

We do see spring in our future. There will be a block of dry weather early next week that could transition us into more typical spring weather than the persistent rain we've been experiencing for so long.

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

Paul Konerko

You have to resist the urge to think that way. It's hard to do, block that stuff out, but it's something we have to do.

Kevin Yoder

D.J. is just looking for ways to win and will do anything it takes to win. If it takes a pass or a block or a rebound, he's going to get it. He's versatile.

Devon is a very versatile player. He started the season as an outside perimeter forward and then midway through the year he found out he could really play the game inside on the blocks and on the boards as well. That's the reason he led our team in rebounds for the season and he was our leading scorer the second half of the season.

Joyce Chen

CORD is concerned about some really legitimate things, like being able to get to your driveway, like being able to park in front of your house and not having some patient's car blocking your car so you can't get out,

Peter Mandelson

continues to keep everything else blocked at the gate, we cannot get to Hong Kong in the shape we need.

Customers may think, if they don't see a truck in my neighborhood, that we're not working on the problem. But we're working on those large feeder lines that serve lots of customers and could be blocks from the neighborhood.