Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Uhrik

We want to take advantage of the opportunity. This is a chance to do for others, and to grow in relationship with God.

Dan Fridgen

We want to take advantage of the opportunity that we're playing at home for the last weekend of the regular season against two very good opponents. What better way to get tuned up for playoff hockey? I see this weekend as being no different than how we're going to have to play in the playoffs. We want to finish as high as we can. We don't know what opponent we'll have, but we don't want to be complacent. We want as many points as we can get out of the season.

John Thomas

We want to take advantage of the opportunity.

Stephanie Reichert

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

Ramona Cruz

We want to start the event a little earlier this year and take advantage of the warm weather.

Bruno Julliard

We want to see how we can take advantage of this power struggle that is now in our favor to garner new victories.

Andre Johnson

The other teams just seem to take advantage of their opportunities, and we don't. Once we get up on a team, we all take turns breaking down.

Jim Mitchel

The potential is there for him if he wants to take advantage of it. It just depends if he wants it or not.

Robert Borosage

The potential for him to be a leader of significant reform in the wake of this corrupt Congress is very great. We want the parties to fight over who has the best reform. It will be interesting to watch and see if he takes advantage of the opportunity.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Shona Thorburn

We've accomplished so much already. That one more win sets you apart from so many other teams, so many other programs and great players. We can't look too far ahead. We really need to take care of business (Monday) night.

Toni Ziegler

We're interested in what motivates dads to be good parents because there are so many men who just aren't good fathers. This work could help to tease apart what makes a good dad.

Richard Ashcroft

We're in a malaise. What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Nong Duc Manh

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Robert Sweeney

We actually breached the wall due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the intense wind at this particular point. It created a blowtorch effect through the apartment doorway.

Montel Williams

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

Norm MacDonald

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

Neville Marriner

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Mark Ruffalo

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Eric Holder

I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.

Denise Tyrrell

She drove around the crossing gates, apparently. The gates were down and everything was functioning as it was supposed to.

John Ferguson

Security trumps trade. Security has become the priority when crossing borders.

Mary Harron

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.

Elli Ochowicz

She's been an inspiration to all of us. We were really crossing our fingers hoping that she would get it.

Tika Sumpter

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.

Tasneem Aslam

No crossing of people would take place on Monday because we have not yet exchanged the lists of people wanting to cross.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sterling Ivey

We would be eliminating their positions at that site.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.