Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Braisted

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

John Loose

Recognizing the many uncertainties about the broader economy, we are carefully walking the line between realism and optimism, ... Although it appears that our revenue stream will improve as the year plays out, the pace and timing of recovery is uncertain.

Tania Graves

Really what it is is focusing on businesses that are core to our strategic plan. These lines of businesses, although profitable ... would thrive better with a company that is more focused in those areas.

Preston Sturges

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Charlie Glavin

Our October downgrade was based on concerns that are manifesting themselves now, although current conditions are actually worse than we feared,

D. James

Our objective is to make it easy for our customers and members to understand their benefit and get their prescriptions filled. Although some new enrollees may not have received their plan enrollment cards, we want to reassure them that Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacists are ready to help them right away by using the information on their plan enrollment forms.

Richard Hatch

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Henry Blodget

Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly more free to compete on its own terms than we expected it would.

Bob Morton

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Margaret Wittenberg

Organic foods continue to move into the mainstream, and more Americans are choosing organic foods as part of a lifestyle aimed at wellness.

Jacques Chirac

Robert Parker is the most followed and influential critic of French wines in the world, something I witnessed recently when choosing wine for President Clinton, who automatically referred to Robert Parker as his reference for making a proper wine-buying decision,

Mike Holmgren

It happens, because now you're down to one game, and anything can happen in any one game. But I think if you look over percentages over the last however many years, most of the times the guys that are playing at home have the advantage. So we're choosing to look at it that way.

Clay Johnson

I think that's one of the greatest skills that politicians have, is choosing when to listen to the polls and when not to.

Bob Samson

I think IBM invented proprietary back in the 80s, but that's not what customers want. They want to have flexibility in choosing a variety of different technologies that they want to deploy.

Pat Burns

I think he's a wordsmith. I think he's very good at choosing his words. There's all kinds of literary references. ... The man is just so well-read, just really a Renaissance man.

Max von Sydow

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

Chen Huiqin

Funds are choosing to lock in their profits after decent gains recently and more profit-taking will likely occur in coming sessions.

Sven Eriksson

I think the fans must have had a very hard time choosing because we are lucky enough to have a number of really outstanding individual players.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Mark Newton

Stephen quite understandably wants to be playing first-team cricket. If he wants to talk to other people, that is OK.

Michael Hussey

Sri Lanka is probably playing the better cricket at this point than South Africa.

Alec Stewart

Our cricket is too gentle - all of it.

John Read

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

Bill Bryson

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Dav Whatmore

It is not good is it, international cricket was held up because of other reasons, it is not good I have not seen that before in cricket in my three years (here).

Paul Wilson

I think SACA fell in love with the idea of having a cricket icon as their coach,

Zaheer Khan

I thought I will use the time to work on those things. I think if it has worked well for me in domestic cricket, it should work in international cricket as well.

Ian Botham

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket

Carol Brand

Our roots are here and I love New England.

Bill Shankly

What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)

Bill Shankly

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

Andrea Ferro

It is an honor for us to be one of this year's headliners at the New England Metal and Hardcore festival. We are more than ready for it. We can't wait.

Andy Robinson

Jason is an outstanding member of the England team who has led by example for the three years he has been playing international rugby union,

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Paul Gascoigne

I was proud playing for England in the World Cup. Every game I played in, I did really, really well. I had the world at my feet, you know.

Shane Warne

I think they will be disappointed they are not 2-1 up. I think the pressure is on England and not Australia. At the end of the day, they have to win. We only have to win one (of the last two tests).

Randy Carlyle

Our players worked extremely hard. It was a fast-paced game, and it wasn't no-hit hockey. It was a physical game and those are tough ones to play.

Michael Heisley

Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

Vincent Charles

Peace is still not assured, and we must remember there are still millions of extremely poor and hungry people who need help.

Budge Pountney

Steve has played in the back row a number of times and every time he has, he has done extremely well,

Patty Murray

States are extremely nervous about what's going to be required of them.

Joseph Murray

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

Sandra Langley

(Spry) hurt us. We needed to do a better job on her. Their freshman played extremely well.

Dan Armstrong

Some guys don't think Justin lifts hard, then we test and he's extremely strong for his weight. His max has gone up 50 pounds in just about everything.

Gary Galloway

Our plan was to open one lane so ambulance and fire trucks could get through. We had a lot of people out there during the storm, when it was extremely dangerous, making sure this happened.

Douglas Alexander

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics.

Bob Woods

People in the system are losing faith in it.

John Ruskin

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.

Sathya Baba

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.  

Bible Bible

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Roland Martin

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

Bill Shuster

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Michael Fields

Our offensive line is a senior-oriented group that is jelling. They do a heck of a job working together and making adjustments.

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Doug Adams

People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

D.J. Owens

Our team is a mixed group of scorers in that on any night six or seven different guys can explode. Tonight was my night, but I'm sure in the next game, it will be someone else. We're going to spread the love around.

Darci Lewis

Our starting group really stepped up tonight. They're such an unselfish team.

Brian Smith

Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,

Peter Costello

part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.

Alfred Jarry

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.

Jim Neal

Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely.

Kathy Smith

Some of those issues are things that are going on at the individual sites. People are pulled in every way and sometimes things just get overlooked.

John Cornyn

on the side of justice and individual liberties.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

B. F. Skinner

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Brian Barwick

I was keen to see Eileen Drewery because I thought her name was Eileen Brewery.

O. Henry

I think they'll be keen to have a look, wouldn't they?

Nathaniel Mason

He has a keen sense of understanding of what we're trying to do in the automotive industry.

Jeremy Corbyn

Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.

Gerry Eckenrode

This program is all about winning right now. The kids have a keen sense of refusing to lose.

Cherie Lunghi

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

Virat Kohli

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

James Allan

We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.

Richard Engel

There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.

Todd Swindall

Some of them (the evacuees) are in a little better shape than others. Some of them lost every single thing they had.

David Harris

Some of us lost our houses, so the whole team moved into the school. We're tightly-knit, we're like a family,

Ashleigh Cole

Rivalry or no rivalry, I think we would have lost this game.

Camille Little

Remembering that we lost to Maryland before was pressure on us.

Girish Tyagi

Physicians themselves haven't lost anything. As long as revenue is there, they're getting paid.

Benjamin Franklin

Many a Meal is lost for want of meat.

Connie Williams

(We need) supplies, something to sleep on. We lost everything. We used to live in New Orleans.

Jimmy Williams

We never lost our swagger. When we do what we have to do, nobody can play with us. That's how we feel.

C. S. Lewis

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Doug Castellari

That's the style we teach, and they performed well.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performed fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win, and I think the team's doing everything they can.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Jenn Proske

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Mary Jane

I think we did really well; as a whole we performed a lot better and we sounded a lot better.

Jim Smith

Reece is one of those players that when he's on the floor, something's going to happen. It may be good, it may be bad. But it's going to happen.

Greg Marshall

Our players were as embarrassed as I was.

Sherri Coale

Our players have such tremendous respect for Marsha. I wanted them to be a part of treating her the way she has always treated us.

Steve Spurrier

Our players have remained relaxed when on the verge of winning,

George Steinbrenner

Sure, there will be some more back out, whether it's our players or somebody else's. I'm used to spring training being to concentrate on the World Series, and that's what we like to see our players do. But we don't tell them not to play.

Ben Gordon

Some of the players just brain-locked out there.

Mary Pinkowski

Some of our players were nervous. We got off to a slow start. It was frustrating.

Phil Jackson

Some of our players didn't look ready to play.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Some of the younger players do need protecting as they are new at this level. That is why I do not play them all the time as they need to be bedded in slowly.

Bryan Robson

Jonathan's been in the squad before when Steve McLaren had him,

Frank Rijkaard

He isn't in the squad because I wanted to give him a rest.

Busta Rhymes

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or A Tribe Called Quest. I miss albums like those.

Alessandro Del Piero

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Dane Cook

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

Bram Stoker

Take me away from all this Death.

Jamie Hyneman

We've found that the biggest thing as far as the danger is simply pressure.When we work with explosives, we've got bomb technicians there, bomb-squad guys who go into unknown situations all the time, and they've dealt with it safely.

David Brooks

My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.

Ashley Cole

There's nothing we can do about it and we've just got to do what we can with the squad we've got.

C. S. Lewis

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Dan Fellman

I think this is going to be a test for the studios,

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Anton LaVey

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.