Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Jack McCabe

Realtors have been selling properties by telling investors they can't lose -- that their investments will be home runs. But the value of real estate can go up or down. If it goes down, you'll see speculators suing brokers. You'll also see lenders suing speculators as speculators walk away from their payments or fail to meet their closing costs.

Travis Bradberry

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

Mike Sackett

Our window of opportunity to help Malawi and the rest of the region is closing fast.

Salam Pax

Restaurants are closing and Internet cafes taking their place. People are packed into them.

Steve King

Jesse hit some outside shots that were real important. Topsail was closing in on Justin.

Flip Saunders

That was too good a look. But Maurice did a nice job closing out on him.

Andrew Barker

Lindley has always been good at closing games. He knows how to tighten down in tough situations.

Dave Hakstol

I was very happy with the way our team kept pushing and kept pressing all the way through 60 minutes. I thought our team did an excellent job of closing out the game.

Pete Fenson

It felt a lot different than the Opening Ceremony. It was a little more festive rather than feeling like the ending of the Games. It was a strange feeling to be closing down, but because we've been here so long, we're ready to go home.

George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Tom Stauch

It is an unfortunate ending because that was one of our goals - to try and get back to Cedar Rapids - but I don't think it's something the officials could overlook. It was a good call, but unfortunate for us.

Britani Pittullo

Last season, people were getting hurt. We're ending this season at a high.

Beth Miller

That was a nice ending for her after what happened last year. She's playing much better now.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

Chrissy Mastry

I can't say I'm disappointed. I could not be happier that we got here. Ending my senior season going to state was amazing.

Jeff Sanders

I can't remember a week ever starting and ending with that type of excitement before. It was a great week.

Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Donald Evans

Regarding your first question on the free trade agreement, as I said earlier, we are going to be very sensitive to the needs of Morocco.

Denny Green

Reggie has shown he can play tackle, guard and center. I think if it (unrestricted free agency) goes the way we want it to go, then I think that's the way we would go play the season, with him at left guard.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Zoltan Torok

People just lived better and better. It was like a free lunch for voters.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Courtney Taylor

Success is having two things: a little more free time than you know what to do with and a little more money than you know what to do with,

Tim Floyd

Stanford stayed tough. They made their free throws when they were needed.

Jim Wilson

Some of the property owners took the free lights and installed them at their own expense.

Mike Davis

Our plan was to miss the second free throw at 0:00.8. Since it went to two (seconds) we had to make the second free throw. At 2.1 a lot of things could happen in that situation.

Noam Chomsky

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Hayden Schlossberg

It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.

Alfonso Cuaron

It's a myth for our times, ... You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic -- that's Tony Blair! And Guantanamo is not that different from Azkaban. There are Dementors there, too.

Helen Johnson

Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand,

Barry McCaffrey

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

B. H. Liddell Hart

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B. H. Liddell Hart

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Jill Abramson

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

John Thune

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Adam McKay

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

Tom Epperson

Regina just couldn't do anything about her power. She was a very powerful player.

Mark Goodman

Stay off the roads. Stay away from water. (There) could be live power lines.

Jesse Schultz

Our power play just isn't getting us any goals.

Don Lucia

Our power play has got to get better.

Dave Tippett

Our power play got us back into the game. And we pushed in the third and got the ones we needed.

Dana Taylor

Robby is fast, very powerful and has a quick shot.

Lamar Odom

Right now you have a lot of power forwards who have small-forward athleticism and abilities,

Becca Fitzpatrick

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Phil English

It took all day long for the prisoner evacuation,

Jeffrey Klein

They did everything for him they could do, ... It seems like it's never about the victim. It's always about the prisoner and trying not to step on anyone's toes or do the wrong thing.

Dalai Lama

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Gore Vidal

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

Harry S Truman

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Adam Katz

That's unresolved. I haven't talked to Sammy much about that. Probably today.

Dave McDermott

I was worried about rebounding. We talked about that at halftime.

Ozzie Guillen

I went out and talked to Freddy, about if he's got enough,

Davey Johnson

I don't know anything about it. Nobody's talked to me.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.