Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Keenan

Receiving this prestigious award is a fantastic achievement and a credit to all involved with the club.

Doug Inkley

Recovering an endangered species is not easy. It takes a long time and a lot of effort. But with appropriate laws and resources we can continue to achieve success.

Jamil Moledina

Recognizing and showcasing individual achievement in the creation of games is a core principle of the GDC. For that reason, we are proud to produce and host the Choice Awards.

David Moskowitz

President Bush's action, although timely, may be ill advised. For the past three years, both the CDC and the WHO have steadfastly ignored our novel anti-viral approach, which has achieved over 80% treatment success in West Nile virus encephalitis and which should be equally effective against avian influenza. If the WHO had put us in touch with clinicians in Southeast Asia treating avian influenza cases as we've asked for the past three winters, we'd already know by now.

Karen Hughes

President Bush is a leader who has very strong convictions and also a tremendous heart. He worked to achieve a solution that recognized the tremendous hopes of those who suffer from terrible illnesses and those who long for a cure, as we all do.

John Wallace

Our reports represents only a small step toward alleviating the public's confusion about global warming, but at least it's a positive one. Our most important achievement is reaching a consensus among a diverse group of experts on an issue that has been hotly contested.

Nayyera Haq

Our policy is when there is a group or individual who is recognized for some award or some achievement, Congressman Salazar feels it's fitting to put a tribute in the Congressional Record .

Bill Richardson

Our policy is, it's better to engage the Chinese than isolate them. We have many differences with the Chinese, ... But we believe that by engaging China, we have achieved results in all these areas.

Dick DeVos

Our parents taught us by example the importance and joy of giving. Our community has taught all of us the value of working together to achieve goals beyond our own needs. We are contributing to more than a building - we're contributing to a caring environment of hope and healing.

Andrew Oswald

Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater boost to mental health than having a shiny German automobile parked outside your retirement home. My candid advice to aging Americans would be to use your hard-earned cash to invest much more in friendships than in material items.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Peter Gregory

Surgery is an option, but the advice we have received from two leading specialists in the field is that the injury may still settle without recourse to an opera-tion,

kim booher

Start with the simple tasks in restoring a relationship. Just communicating is a good first step.

Eliot Spitzer

Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.

Allan Hoffenblum

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which I believe he will do because he's a natural optimist, ... No matter what happens on Election Night, he'll figure out a way to say 'This is fantastic.'

Jim May

People who use the system ought to have some say in decisions of that system. I think they (FAA) certainly look to us for advice and counsel, but I don't thinks we have that kind of input now.

Andrew Peters

I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him for advice all the time, and he asks me, but after that it's all jokes.

Rick Greenspan

I will begin to turn my attention to identifying the strongest possible candidates to serve as the next head basketball coach at IU. I will seek the advice and counsel of a great many, scour the country and eventually bring recommended candidates forward to the president.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

John Culp

Our lawyers are prepared to argue that we have the right to strike.

Karla Owens

People have a tendency to argue less with a judge.

David Deutsch

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

George H. W. Bush

Some have argued we should wait, and that's an option. In my view, it's the riskiest of all options, because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become.

Shane Oliver

Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.

John Hutton

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

Don Rittner

Rittner's Computer Law: "Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

Amy Irving

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Sara Barwinski

Our problem is too many empty gates, not a congestion problem.

Debbie Wang

I think there's always going to be a group of people who are willing to do that, especially as you get more empty nesters. In those households, the pet takes on incredible importance as a member of the family and people are willing to shell out incredible amounts of money to keep them healthy.

Jeff Dungan

I think there are going to be a lot of empty nester types who don't want their 5,000-square-foot house anymore, don't have their kids in the house and are ready to travel.

Allen Ginsberg

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talking through an empty skull, ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Sarah Parsons

I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.

John Jay

It feels empty because it was an opportunity wasted for us.

Goeran Persson

There are so many names that will be shouted today. It is so empty where someone is missing.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Tom Watson

If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Charles Darwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Blaise Pascal

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

C. S. Lewis

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!