Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Andy Roxburgh

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

Pat Sullivan

We know we're not going to achieve real safe communities until we start to invest more money in the early childhood years of the children we're dealing with,

G. H. Hardy

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

Fred Taylor

Venus Express is equipped to peer beneath the thick clouds that encircle the planet and probe the mysteries of Venus with a precision never achieved before, and find out why Venus evolved so differently to Earth.

Gary Thomas

Ultimately, intimacy is more fulfilling than accomplishments. High achievers have an empty spiritual life. I think God made us so that our greatest joy is found in relationship.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

David Poile

We know what kind of a person and competitor he is. He will do everything in his power to get back on the ice.

Alan Thompson

We know what a tough competitor Linda is and we have seen what Libby can do at the world championships.

Calvin Baisley

When he had to be good, he was good. He got better as the game went on. He's a great competitor - that's his No. 1 trait.

Fred Hassan

We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal.

John Schwan

Webster is always a fierce competitor and they're playing at home.

Ron Frascht

She wanted to come out and run (in the race). That just shows what a competitor she is.

E. Hicks

She's just keeping her fingers crossed. She's a competitor and sitting out is not something she wants to do.

Don Carty

Since then, we have vastly strengthened our overall domestic and international route network and have entered into alliances with a number of carriers, all of which will make us a much more vigorous competitor in the west.

Denise Ainsworth

Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Dave Kang

While maintaining its status as the dominant supplier of premium fiber and cable, Corning has emerged as one of the premier players in the red-hot optical networking space.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Dianne Lewis

We have to play strong on the boards. Neither team is very tall. Nobody has a big dominant post player inside. All the small things are going to count.

Charles Boucher

I think the dominant theme is the extraordinary strength in the PC market and obviously the microprocessor market in the fourth quarter.

Patrik Elias

When he's on, he's the most dominant player in the league.

Wayne Rogers

We've finally put it together to start playing well, and we don't have one dominant player, so we have to play well together.

Aidan Turner

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Lydia Leonard

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

David Barron

Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.

Kenny Ortega

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Kathy Bates

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.

Ken Bruen

Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.

Skeet Ulrich

She was pretty raw and technically she didn't know what was going on and that's understandable. So we sat back and laughed. We had all been there, we had all been the ones who didn't know what to do. I remember my first film was terrifying, so it was nice to sit back like I was Jack Lemmon or something.

Tracy Rocker

Since that first day, he's been the Keith Jackson we've been waiting on. He's doing what he's supposed to do.

Rob Lowe

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Peter Ueberroth

We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Akshay Kumar

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

DJ Qualls

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

David Mitchell

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky actor.

Diahann Carroll

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Edward Furlong

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Beyonce Knowles

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Bill Nichols

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Rick Barnes

We didn't want him to settle for that.

Tom Tierney

Give him time to settle in, and he'll do the right thing for the Diocese of Cleveland.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Mario Williams

For us to come here, win like we did and shut them out ... it settles it down a little bit.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

John Hughes

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.