Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mavis Staples

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Paul Hawken

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.

Moshe Katsav

The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

Marilynne Robinson

I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.

We had our chances, we didn't capitalize on it. Halifax can thank (goalie Jeremy) Duchesne for that.

We had our chances, and we should have won it without overtime. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities.

We had opportunities to score we just didn't play the way we are capable of playing. Luck hasn't been on our side this year but we are definitely better than last year. We just need to get a little lucky.

John Grahame

We have the right to petition Congress. We think that we shouldn't have to do it just up on Capitol Hill.

We have the capacity to open dozens and dozens of shelters in south Florida if the need arises.

We do expect a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. It's imperative that the local union cooperate with us to get rid of work practices that keep us from running our machines at their full capacity and realizing their full potential.

We do different things to get ready. This is how we do things in this program in practice, and then we're capable of realizing it when we're in that situation.

We worked really hard to set up that defense. I told our guys that we had to defend really well and capitalize on the opportunities that come our way.

Xbox does have a material impact for Microsoft in the December quarter because of the holiday shopping season. The fact it was capacity constrained in December will probably create some headwinds for their overall quarter.

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

True development requires far-reaching fundamental changes in governance and institutions, human capacity and economic structure, so that countries can sustain further economic and social progress without permanently depending on foreign aid.

Tropical-force winds are still quite capable of substantial damage. As the winds come down, the rain will take over as a primary threat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Jeff Gordon

You know, we really are going to have to be as on top of our game this weekend as we've ever been. You know, certainly we're capable of that, I know that we are. We haven't shown that this year, so I'm hoping that when it is all on the line that we do step it up. I know the team is capable of doing that.

We needed much greater capacity to continue to grow the company, and the new site gives us a purpose-built plant with offices and extensive storage, plus the space to expand further over coming years. We already have plans to increase manufacturing in line with greater demand.

We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.

Helene D. Gayle

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

We get so focused on micromanaging God and His Kingdom that we forget to realize that He is more than capable of handling things on His own!

We are now spending heavily to upgrade production capacity in order to cope with the robust demand for our vehicles all over the world.

We are now in the process of initiating the 'next phase' of our work in Iraq, which includes helping six local NGOs to more fully develop their organizational and staff skill capacity to implement development program themselves in their respective areas," ()

We foresee that this year should be a year of investment and high export growth, therefore we need foreign currencies to finance investment and imports of raw material, as well as capital goods.

We didn't dominate them the way we're supposed to, didn't do the things we're capable of doing. We paid the price for it.

We had twice as many chances as they did, we just didn't capitalize when we needed to.

We've maintained our discipline and focus in preparation for games. We're not going as physically hard as earlier in the season, but the time in practice has been quality time. Not every team is capable of doing that.

We've lost two guys. But it's the kind of situation a great side must be capable to deal with.

We have capable players that are stepping up.

Valuations have run up since the bellwether stocks have had nice rallies. The large caps look slightly overbought.

We've developed a capacity to win doubleheaders. It's been slow in coming, but we've learned how to be intense enough to be on top for 14 innings.