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.

Steve Richardson

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

Brian Rust

We're not actually sure how many ballots were affected.

David Dill

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Larry Klayman

Ultimately, we may want to see all the ballots because we want to count them,

Ben Beakes

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Elliott Abrams

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Frances Johnson

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

Craig Keeney

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Richard Armitage

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

Mike DeWine

We're not going to talk about campaign tactics,

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Alan Keyes

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Bob Beauprez

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

Nathan Sawaya

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

Colin Powell

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

John Culp

Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Ned Lathrop

We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Michael Specter

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

Laura Marriott

We are seeing applications merged into a single device. They are getting easier to use and more streamlined.

Ted Snyder

We struggled at times scoring. We made that extra pass down the stretch for easier shots.

Alex Williams

We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.

Louis C. K.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Mark Recchi

We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves.

Brad Soderberg

Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him.

Brian Durocher

We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.

Greg Ellis

We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Gabrielle Reece

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

William Gardner

This is too important to just sort of slam through.

Bill Gross

In this kind of an environment, that's a slam dunk.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Kesha Rogers

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Frank Luntz

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.