Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavio Paz

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

We jumped on them early, got a little complacent and they started to get back in it on us. But we got the job done in the end.

We get lazy and complacent and just don't want to do it because it's not our priority. Well, look at Katrina.

We can do some good stuff on special teams, but you don't want guys to get complacent and say 'we're good' and then not work as hard.

We are pretty complacent about vaccine-preventable diseases, primarily because the vaccines are so effective we rarely see the diseases. It's kind of out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

Jeb Bush

Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal areas. We're going to have high winds, hurricane force winds in some cases. People should not be complacent about this.

Nouriel Roubini

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

We are just trying not to become complacent and just staying hungry. We're working hard to stay No. 1.

Derek Hough

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

The deals have been the de-icing on the cake. The more dominant issue is the Nasdaq bounce, which we remain distrustful of, as we feel the market is being too complacent about interest rates.

Jeremy Shockey

We played pretty well the first two games and got a little complacent and thought we were better than we were.

Steve Largent

We must never become complacent in what is still a dangerous world,

If we get complacent with where we are now we could easily lose (to George Mason). It's not good enough now. We want to win the whole thing.

Bill Evans

People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the data will result in more intense media coverage of the risk to interest rates.

Dick Wolf

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

We've been around for 25 years, but people are getting complacent again. Drunk driving deaths are going back up. There are a lot of people who are killed for no reason at all, because they're so preventable.

We got a little complacent on defense. They converted on all our mistakes.

We got a little complacent in that stretch of the game. When we get complacent, we just stand around.

Frances O'Grady

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

Sam saw these things differently. He was looking to the future. We were all fairly complacent at the time.

You see a lot of seniors who would be very complacent and would want to take some time off. He's been in the weight room; he's out there running every day.

They started out very fast and were excited. They knew it (the game) was important. But they got a little complacent and let Pittsburgh fight their way back in.

I can't tell you how great a feeling it is for me. But I can't stress enough that the dream's not over. I'm not satisfied or complacent with where I am. I want to keep pushing forward, and I want this team to keep doing good things. We've still got a long way to go.

I am not suggesting we should be complacent about the weak statistic for fourth-quarter growth.

Tony Blair

Everybody is concerned about what is happening, ... You should never be complacent about these things.

The worst mistake Macintosh users could make would be to become complacent in their security practices deluding themselves into thinking that the Mac OS has no vulnerabilities. It does. More will be found and more exploits will appear.

Mark Ruffalo

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

He's not the complacent type. He is going to govern to make a difference.

I'm never complacent no matter what you're doing. If I was the No. 1 guy, I wouldn't be complacent with being that. You're always trying to get better and move up the ladder.

I never stopped wanting to play. I never got complacent because I wasn't playing. I kept working hard in practice. I understood that with a team that's so successful, there has to be a player like me on the team.

It's a milestone for the program to be over .500 at this point. We need to keep going forward and not get complacent with where we are.

In our view, the financial markets are much too complacent about what a decision to keep tightening means at this juncture.

I guess I was complacent and I lost. I made a vow to myself that I would never let that happen again.