Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Orlando Early

The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.

Chris Connolly

The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.

Benj Steinman

The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Jim Newberry

We've all seen the bickering, divisiveness and the lack of sense of vision for urban county government. That all needs to fundamentally change.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

Thomas Carroll

We want to stop the run first and then force them into a passing game. I think that's what we did two years ago when we went up there in the rain. We stopped FSU tailback Greg Jones for 15 yards on 13 carries. That just lets you tee off on the quarterback.

Alex Segura

We want to show we're part of the labor force as well. We have a right to speak up and say we don't support illegal immigration.

David Suzuki

We have become a force of nature.

Elizabeth Ivey

The other thing is you need a good solid work force and 50 percent of us is female, so just play the numbers.

Mike Royer

We started slow, like we usually do, but we rushed things, and tried to force them when we needed to be more patient. The girls played hard, it just didn't happen.

Matt Benefiel

We struggled with their size and their length. They forced us to make perimeter shots.

Ryan Diggs

We stopped them from getting offensive boards. We did that, forced some turnovers and played our game.

Gregory Lagana

We're talking about a good 80 percent of our work force in Charleston.

Joel Sullivan

We started out sluggish, but they responded well and picked up the pressure and forced some turnovers.

Edward Brooke

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

Lauren Bacall

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Geraldine Ferraro

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread. That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

Geraldine Ferraro

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread, ... That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

Steven Livingston

Fred Siegel is a great guy to work with and live next to.

Haley Barbour

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Bernard Laporte

Fred is a key player of our squad, that's why he was rested this week.

Kelly Middleton

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Jack Rio

Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Brian Fuentes

Unfortunately I wasn't able to hold the lead. But Scott did once we scored again, so that's awesome.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Ryan Jacob

Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.

Jenny Emanuel

We want to make sure the Internet is secure.

Margot Robbie

There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!

Aristotle

We are what we reblog.

Greg Jones

The situation is the staffing of the new jail. It doesn't have anything to do with the sheriff or the commissioner.

Burl Cain

We wish the sheriff would come on back.

Tony Butler

I've got to look sharp. You're talking to the sheriff of this county.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Michael Porter

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Anton Chekhov

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Claude Nicollier

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Colin Baker

The waves of time wash us all clean.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

John Calvin

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.