Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Bryce Davison

We always believed we might have an outside shot (at earning an Olympic berth) and that if we did our jobs and trained hard on and off the ice it could be a possibility.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Craig Davis

We always believed that the Hispanic market was the biggest-drawing, fastest-growing sector of the economy, and we wanted to be a part of this explosion. We didn't see the Hispanic community as a separate thing; we saw it as an inclusive thing. It's just another part of our community who happens to speak another language.

Wendy Anae

We always believed in the kids. It was just getting used to our system. They worked hard, and always played with heart. I think they deserve everything they've gotten.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

M. H. Abrams

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Zhang Guobao

The outcome of evaluation on the oil and gas resources was better than former data.

Carroll McCray

We're going to evaluate whether we moved the right guys. We're not opposed to moving any more. But with the two moves last week, and now with Brandon this week, everybody else should stay in their spots pretty much between now and next Tuesday." ()

Jim Bates

We're going to evaluate every position. We're going to evaluate, see what happened. We'll evaluate as we do after every week.

Mike Babcock

We're going to have to evaluate our team this summer. And if we have to make changes, we will make changes.

Rich Anderson

We know we're the underdogs, we have a young team. We have to come out and play. We're not going to evaluate on wins and losses, we're going to evaluate on our effort.

Rachel Scott

We want to make sure that we do a very thorough investigation and that we evaluate all possibilities.

Pat Summitt

She got a concussion. She was out today. We'll evaluate her to see if she'll be back tomorrow.

Richard Behnke

We hope to eventually be able to predict major events on the sun and to evaluate the impact of magnetic particles hitting the earth.

Roger Griffiths

She's a very good player, very talented. Right now, we're still in the evaluation process.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Valerie Cunningham

We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Rod Paige

whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue.

Park Chan-wook

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Joyce Brothers

We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?