Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

Tom Rath

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

David Griffiths

She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part and that she had not had an affair or fling with the claimant.

Marilyn Smith

She knows this is her life. She accepts it. It's almost her mission in life to touch others.

Caleb Carr

Gideon is unaware of it; he's grown up in it, and accepts the shortcomings until -- it's sort of a typical Everyman situation -- you accept the shortcomings until you get shoved up against an uncomfortable wall by them and have to look at them. And that's what happens to him. It's not a voluntary process.

Phil Rosenthal

Fred is a character actor, and I think the audience accepts him more easily in different roles.

Greg Isaacs

Judge Austin accepts responsibility for his conduct. We look forward to this journey to justice.

The Press

Here, he jokes with his teammates on the field. He yells encouragement, willingly accepts the spotlight. At times in interviews, his voice is hoarse from all the chatter.

Jez Moxey

Glenn accepts this and is now looking at how best to shape his squad with the money available.

David Winters

Ultimately, if this holds true for the whole study, the HBS solution could be very beneficial for human kidneys and we can expect a higher success rate for kidney transplants, which could save cost and save lives.

James Rodgers

We are pleased to report recent tests show dramatic improvement in his bone density, making surgery possible. While initially beneficial at managing the pain, in recent months, the injections have not been as effective and the pain has only intensified. Delaying surgery is no longer a viable treatment option.

Marcal Young

We've actually had two or three of these and out of the funds we've raised, we've helped 283 kids go to camp that financially wouldn't have been able to go. It's been pretty beneficial for us. All of the money raised helps send Scouts to camp.

Ken Jr.

There are certain things that are good for the player, good for the team. It was a mutual decision on what we needed at the time. Time helps and they needed the spot. It's beneficial for both of us.

Ernie Grunfeld

We felt like this would be very beneficial to him to get into real game-type of shape.

Jim Cullinan

We're back at the table, we're happy to be back at the table, and hope to reach a mutually beneficial conclusion.

Kerri Strug

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

Jeff Denham

Low-cost insurance would be beneficial in my district.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Tom Burnett

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

Robert Whitney

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

Derek Thomas

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

Rubin Carter

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.

Omar Stoutmire

When you've got as many guys as we have getting significant playing time during the playoffs, it makes you feel like a starter and part of the system. They're counting on you. You don't want to let your teammates down, let the coaches down or let the organization down.

Nell Fortner

When you've got a program that hasn't been tended to for 40 years - and that's not to disrespect any coaches or players or administrators - but a program that hasn't been tended to by the administration - then you've got a lot of ground to make up.

Tyrone Willingham

When you take that job, you understand. And I think that's one of the reasons that I took the job, because it is a place that has had some of the most prestigious coaches in the country with some of the greatest accomplishments in football. So, you take it knowing that. And hopefully you're prepared to try to live up to that type of manner.

Wayne Norton

We actually didn't get the place we thought we were going to get, but we have very high expectations each year in this event. Taking second, fourth and 10th place is very good, but our coaches are still not necessarily satisfied. But this was a great start for us and hopefully we'll have some more good things happen (Saturday).

David Allen

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

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.

Dan Buckner

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

Clint Hurdle

The problem you have there, and it's from my learning experience, is when you have one and you're not really sure of him, you keep using him -- and he keeps not getting the job done. You think, 'This is the right move.' Unfortunately, I've fallen into that trap.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Antonio Porchia

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Lin Laing

So many of these people have fallen through the cracks.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

Jonathan Jackson

I wouldn't say it's fallen off any. We still have some great players on the field.

Troy Peter

We've found a way to persevere all year even when we've fallen behind. We've come back after trailing by a lot quite a few times. That seems to be our style.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles Caleb Colton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Al Sharpton

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Akshay Kumar

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Chris Bauer

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.

Chip Kelly

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Marty Hurney

We know what Todd can do and we want to look at the guys we have here. We told Todd it is not necessary for him to come to camp.

Glenn Thiel

We know what have to do. We needed this week to rest our guys up.

Isaiah Thomas

We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We trust each other.

Marty Hurney

We know what Todd can do and we want to look at the guys we have here. We told Todd it is not necessary for him to come to camp.

Glenn Thiel

We know what have to do. We needed this week to rest our guys up.

Isaiah Thomas

We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We trust each other.

Billy Wagner

We know how important this month is. Guys turned it up for the second game. We're going to have some tough losses, but we didn't let one tough loss turn into two.

Randy Brown

We know at some point somebody's going to put us on our heels and we're going to have to react to that. Today, we thought that might happen, considering the way things were going, but the guys stepped up.

Lee Corso

Wait'll you see Notre Dame, ... These guys are good.

Mike Holman

Vault guys love the sport. You find that they just stay with it, that they want to help everybody.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Kelly Anderson

She's probably improved the most. She's also probably our hardest worker. I thought that made her a lot better.

Pat Casey

She's one of the hardest hitters we have.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Jennifer Lopez

My manager says, 'Are you sure? You should test-drive it and see how it feels.' I know how it will feel. It will feel like I just wasted $80,000.

Tom Glavine

That's the manager's call. It's always the manager's call. You do what the manager tells you to do.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Joe Girardi

I was with him 10 of my first 11 years (as a manager or coach) and it was great, ... I'd want him around if I would be there.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Mike Brey

We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Jim Hillman

When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Danny Ferry

We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.

Gordon Absher

We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.