Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Graham

We want to reclaim what we think is ours. Winning the (CHC) title is one of the things that we want to accomplish this year. ... We just want to continue to play our game and let everyone else try to catch up.

Madeline Albright

What the Serb people really want to do is to be able to hold up their heads again and be a part of the new Europe. And this (Milosevic's arrest) is a step that needs to be taken to accomplish that.

Thomas A. Edison

There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

John B. Hood

There is a limit to what we can do. If people can show us other things we might do that would be equally or more effective, we'd love to hear about that, but changes in attitudes do take time to accomplish in a society. We will commit to doing everything we can, within the resources we have.

Aaron Cook

When I face a left-handed lineup, it narrows down what I have to accomplish in that game. It simplifies my game plan.

Stefan Sagmeister

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

Erin Traudt

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Michael Buckley

Ultimately, it was the increase in the amount of cash that he was requiring that set off the alarm bells.

Gary Doer

We've already completed the tests on mercury and fish and . . . so far there's nothing to alarm us,

Frank Barrows

We've tried to neither overly alarm nor under-inform people.

Joyce Holliman

When I came out of the apartment Steve was, um -- I had him in a chair. As soon as I opened the door, I was thinking that it was a false alarm or something.

Rebecca Miller

We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.

Lucas Sithole

Security guards at the shopping centre heard an alarm early this morning and upon investigation saw smoke coming out of the building, but could not ascertain where the fire was coming from.

Vickie Williams

She would come in real early in the morning and sleep in a booth with a wind-up alarm clock so she could get up in time to start making them breakfast.

Pat Campbell

We're just not getting out of bed until the fourth quarter. We hit the snooze button and the alarm isn't ringing.

Carlos Fuentes

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Dave Andrews

We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.

Agnes Repplier

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

Charles Dickens

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Girija Vyas

We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.

Joe Gibbs

We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.

Dan Shoemaker

We're seeing some gulf moisture from Dallas east. But to the west of Dallas, the winds went southwest, and that's always very warm for us.

Harry Reid

She overcame difficult family circumstances to become the managing partner of a successful 400-lawyer Dallas law firm.

Renaldo Wynn

Moments like that you never forget. And I'll never forget this Dallas moment.

David Wilson

Lewisville by itself, if breeched, could send enough water to overtop the Dallas levees.

Flip Saunders

We're going to have to score more points because Dallas is going to score. We're not going to be able to hold Dallas to 70-something points. It's just not going to happen.

Mark Hankins

We accomplished a lot of goals at this event. Playing a competitive round shakes off some rust and determines our strengths and weaknesses. This gives us some direction for our upcoming match in Dallas on Saturday.

Steve Sampson

I felt in the second half the players played with a lot of pride and they showed they weren't going to drop their heads and roll over and that was important. They wanted to show the Dallas fans that we can play this game too.

Bob Larson

I do not want to hang around and root for Dallas to lose.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

Don McClure

We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.

Abby Ottenhoff

We've seen great success at Sheridan in dealing with drug offenders and hope that we will be able to replicate that success.

Mary Meeker

The reality here is we're dealing with a market environment that was overheated.

Susanna Kearsley

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Theodore Schultz

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Ellen McLaughlin

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

Tom Fontana

We did not go in and pitch a show about accounting. And so the nature of the show is, we're dealing with sexuality.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Paul Hefner

This rain tends to give you a false sense of security.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

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So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Linda Czyzyk

But these people don't use scientific methods or legitimate psychiatric methods. By offering false hope to people who may really need help, they're doing a tremendous disservice. And there are people out there who really struggle with this that maybe need somebody who can help guide them through the process.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Dawn Powell

Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Jack McConnell

Sir Tom is one of today's greatest Scots." ()

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Charles Lynch

We're starting to see signs of life. The question is how quick the rest of the industry can scale down its infrastructure to make it viable.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Carlos Mesa

I want Bolivians to support their president.

Carlos Fuentes

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Agnes Repplier

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.