Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

Munir Akram

The outcome of the summit was not all we had hoped for. The agenda became loaded as the process went along.

Roy Blunt

What we do here is more important than who we are. We have an agenda to move forward here.

Ken Clarke

We are going to make our case to our fellow MPs, argue on the agenda that I have set out before and see how many of them think that is a package they would like to put to the party and the country.

Dick Cheney

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Dan Schmidt

We have seen an explosion in our numbers. The industry came to us and asked us to develop a program. The feedback we get is that the students are learning and they know more of the why -- why they are doing their jobs and how it fits into the overall corporate mission. From the industry view, they save money hiring someone with a two year degree as opposed to off the street.

Roe Hye

We have asked three independent labs to conduct DNA tests on the samples, and all three came out with the same conclusion. None of the stem cells were patient-specific.

Javad Zarif

We have asked the United States to provide us with that evidence, and we have not seen any forthcoming,

Baba Kingibe

We have asked the SLA to give us the coordinate of the position where these attacks have taken place...As soon as they do that, we shall send our team to investigate and establish whether indeed such attacks took place or not.

Shivraj Patil

We have asked the police to furnish details on the loopholes.

Andrew Walton

We have asked the people in the diocese to contact the governor's office, state senators (and) Assembly members to voice their objection to the legislation, both on moral and fiscal grounds.

Jaswant Singh

We have asked the government to come clean and explain its stand. Under the circumstances, there is no way the government cannot but come forward and explain its stand. It's the government's national duty to explain.

Arjunan Ethirveerasingam

We have no knowledge who was behind it whatsoever other than that they were abducted by unidentified gunmen in plain clothes. Both the released women have stated they were asked questions and interrogated and say they were slapped around and physically abused.

Alan Sullivan

We have never asked to see the Southwest application for the same reasons we don't think Southwest should see our application.

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. You play a lousy third quarter and give up a bunch of turnovers, you're going to tempt fate with that kind of play over a 12-minute period.

Rich McBride

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now is the only time to prove ourselves. Otherwise, we'll go home.

Mats Sundin

We have no one to blame but ourselves. It shouldn't have come down to this late in the season. It's our own fault.

Rick Carlisle

We have no one to blame but ourselves. I give Boston credit. They hung in and did what they have to do to win the game.

Bob Hoskins

When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It's all great and if the film turns out to be a load of s - -, nobody blames you.

David Nonis

There is a lot of blame to spread around.

Don Larsen

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

Chris Gent

When I was an executive ... relationships within the company and at board level where characterized by openness and trust. We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.

Richard Yamarone

Ultimately the buck stops with the president. If people are upset about the economy and want to blame someone, that someone is probably going to be the president,

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Carlos Beltran

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

Carlos Beltran

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Carlos Gonzalez

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Carlos Ghosn

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Carl Crawford

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

Rick Adelman

We were a team without a personality. With Ron, we have one.

Steve Bruce

We were always the better team but Everton threw on their He-Men and I was always worried they would get a touch or ricochet.

Alan Shearer

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.