Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Sean Flynn

I was aggressive, but he knew how to counter me. I didn't know what to do.

Wayne Dyer

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

Walter Isaacson

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Still, none of these discount programs can counteract the full impact of these price increases. Even with the discounts, these prices are hurting people.

A counter reaction? No. I think I made the point that I had to.

Steve Francis

They had a lot of people injured, so they had to try and play with a lot of different lineups. We were able to counter everything they did. It was a good win ... a well-needed win.

Herculez Gomez

They're weak on the counter attack. They don't defend well when players are going at them. That's what we have to do -- set the precedent and take it to them.

Michael Vick

They try to keep me in the pocket, try to make me throw the ball, ... So what do we do? We gash them in the run game. We've got a counter for everything teams try and do.

They're selling hormones over the counter now, self-prescribed, self-dosed, no medical monitoring.

They're a very fast team. They don't really have any height, but they're fast. We have to counter that.

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Our experience says prices do not go down when there's job creation in the local economy. In local markets where they are flat on jobs, they could see prices decline. But we're projecting 2.3 million new jobs this year. The job market is providing a buffer. It's a counter force to rising rates.

Any move could be counter productive for OPEC, ... They need strong economies to maintain demand.

LeBron James

The third quarter was a disaster. We weren't able to counter their attack. They made big shots and we weren't able to make any shots. We knew they would heat up but we didn't counter it.

Flip Saunders

So with different personnel, you can run the same play, but your option that might be one of your main options for one team, for the other team, it might be a whole totally different option. So they have a familiarity in knowing some things you want to run, some tendencies as far as what you're going to do. But we're kind of a counter puncher. You come out, we jab, we jab, we see what you're going to throw, and then we counter-punch that.

Ricardo Sanchez

sophistication, especially in the improvised explosive devices that they are using, and we're working to learn from that and to be able to counter them.

Sometimes we sit at the counter and I like to just watch the cook, ... She opens the refrigerator and she opens all those little containers with all of the different food she needs for each order. It's beautiful. It's like a performance. We'll be back.

Santa Cruz has very good speed this year. The last time we played them, we had a hard time scoring on the counter attack. We expect a similar type game, so we are going to have to play good defense and execute well in our half court offense and 6-on-5 opportunities.

These developments were counter to all historical trends, and could not have been foreseen. This situation is very painful and disappointing for us.

David Beckham

Thierry Henry is playing just phenomenally at the moment. And with a team like that we're really going to have to play to counter a score like this in London.

Things sit on the counter too long. If it's hot food, keep it hot. If it's cold, keep it cold.

The whole idea of taking labor-intensive services away from the counter is definitely on our to-do lists.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Bruce Johnston

Are you telling me that if he were to swear that he told you that, you would swear in a counter sense that he was lying?

Every time a counter works it's probably because Levi has done his job and a lot of the yardage other people get is because the defense is keying on him.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

Adam McKay

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

Franco Frattini

Counter terrorism effectively requires that we have no time to loose,

Chuck D.

Counter programming has always been a very necessary ingredient of the type of pictures we make. There's no question, if we do it properly we can really score.

Ray Haynes

You get a passing visit, but you don't get anything substantive, because Fox knows that Fabian can't do anything. ... He's working at counter purposes with the governor, it seems to me.