Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Suzanne LaFollette

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Tawakkol Karman

Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

Max Heindel

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Bhagavad Gita

Learn from Me briefly, O Arjuna, how one who has attained such perfection realizes Brahman, the supreme state of knowledge.

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Robert Herrick

Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.

Buddha

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Danny Lyn

We came here with the intention of not losing and we attained that objective so we can't quarrel. However, it was not the type of game I was expecting as both teams played as if they did not want to win and did not want to lose.

Vern Lorsung

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

Garrick Phillips

We have a special deal in our community, and with the kids. Unfortunately, it's about wins and losses sometimes. But overall it's a lot bigger than that.

Tom McKillop

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

Marvin Emerson

We were bigger and we got caught up in a couple of picks and screens. I decided to go small late in the game with the match ups and switch picks. I kept one big guy in.

E. Hicks

We were bigger and stronger than them inside. We really controlled the boards and controlled the game from the inside out.

Mark Wilson

We have plenty of employees at the Florida Chamber who have guns in their car in our parking lot right now. What's wrong with this current legislation is that it takes the decision out of the hands of employees and employers and puts it in the hands of bigger government and more legislation.

Anastasia Myskina

The fact that Lindsay is missing gives us an even bigger chance.

James Glassman

The extraordinary events of the time make a person. He'll be bigger than life because of that.

GenPeter Pace

The fact of the matter is that you can protect people to a certain extent, but you always come up with a bigger bomb. We just need to continually hone our skills ... so that we don't set a pattern that the enemy can exploit.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Charles de Lint

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Lindsey Bruno

We have so many young players. My role is to keep them focused. That's not always easy. But we must be doing something right.

Ricky Gervais

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

Brian Chesky

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Ben Roethlisberger

We know we're going to be the underdogs and we probably like that role a little more.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Ava Gardner

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

Bill Gates

I did not even finish my studies

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Aristophanes

How can I study from below, that which is above?

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Carlos Mencia

When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.

Dino Brugioni

We have to get these to the White House.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.