Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

Zig Ziglar

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

Zig Ziglar

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Zendaya

Determination. No matter what field you're in, determination will surely get you to the top.

Rebuilding should not become an exercise in centralized planning. If federal bureaucrats determine the path of rebuilding, local insight and initiative will be overrun and local needs overlooked.

Our policy is to let each resort determine its own smoking policy.

Ron Carlson

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Jarome Iginla

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

invite some people into so-called 'advisory committees' which will first help to determine the milestones and rules for global participation. These guidelines are then supposed to come out in November/December 2005.

Richard Butler

In those presidential sites, we determined there were 1,100 buildings, some of them as large as Giants or Yankee stadium, really big warehouses,

In the Quad-Cities its seems like there are five or six ways to get to a destination. What needs to be determined is the primary way to get to your destination.

John Rowland

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

Sam Altman

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

Tyler Smith

I just started petitions this weekend. I need to determine whether I can be a viable candidate.

Steve Smith

I just sit there and look at the place. I remember what it was like to be there. I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew that I was going to need a lot of determination and a lot of persistence to do something else.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Iraq is such an important place in the world. What happens in Iraq will determine and shape the future of the Middle East, ... Being away on a day like this is a huge sacrifice, but a sacrifice for a good cause.

Maeve Binchy

I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

Claire really sparked us off the bench. The freshman showed a lot of determination and strength in there and played a well-rounded game. I don't know if we missed a shot is the fourth quarter.

His future will be determined at a later date.

He wouldn't let me do that if he'd have died I'd have died with him, he stuck there with me thick and thin, no matter what he was there he was determined to get me out of there he was not going to leave me behind.

Sylvester Croom

I'm not worried about him making it and doing well. It's just what round is he going to be taken in that's going to determine how much he's going to get paid. I want him to make as much money as possible.

If the rate increases do stall out at 5 percent, I think there's still tremendous upside room for this group of stocks. Rates will be a very key metric that's going to determine whether these stocks make new highs or pull-back.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

I looked in my linemen's eyes, and they had determination, ... That really lit me up inside. It is real good when the guys up front get that feeling. They just had a look I've never seen before. They all had the same look. After I saw that, I just like, 'It's going to be me and the safety all day.' That's what it was.

David Diehl

In this league if you set your mind to do something and you're determined to fight when things are tough and you're down, yeah you can come back. It's been done before.

I'm reaping the rewards now and enjoying every minute of it - even when I'm on the floor waiting to be carted off for more stitches. I wouldn't swap it for anything, and, whether this proves to be my last season at this level or not, I'm determined to make the most of it.

Sam Brownback

I have not determined ... at this point, how I would vote,

I'm sure they'll be determined to get a win. But we are, too. This is a big game for us, too.

I know that was in the back of these kids' minds. We talked about it when we went out tonight and reinforced it at halftime. We remembered the feeling of losing last year and we didn't want to have that same feeling when we left this place tonight. They were very determined and set their mind to it.

I'm happy about those numbers, ... but the real determination is, what do we learn? Are we smarter when we do it next time?

I'm determined to stop this violence so I'm speaking out.

Daunte Culpepper

I'm determined to fix it. One thing we've got to do is stay together.

Richard Butler

I intend to pursue this matter in a very determined way.