Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mac Gifford

We set many goals for ourselves this year, and one of those was to beat Yale. We just wanted it that badly and we fought.

Thom Gunn

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Lucy Powell

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

Bill Schneider

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Raymond Seed

We're hearing from people who were involved and now feel very badly and want to make it right, ... What we have now is stories of malfeasance and some field evidence that would correlate with these stories.

Kevin Brownlow

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Larry Brown

When you're a coach and you see guys trying and you don't get a win, you want badly for something good to happen, ... I sensed after the game they really felt good about it, they were excited about it. That was fun to see.

Kathleen Blanco

We were begging for more resources, and you know, eventually, we got enough resources. It just took more days than we wanted it to take.

Erich von Stroheim

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Eric Massa

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money.

Patrick Guerriero

We are here in the best tradition of Ronald Reagan, begging the party to do the right thing. The party cannot have it both ways. This is a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.

Jo Leadbeater

Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and people who survived disaster will continue to die while they wait for aid.

Tom Curley

When you race, it's who's fastest, not who's the best blocker, ... I'm begging you to understand that principle. There are people that are faster and you must respect that.

Jerry Fitzgerald

When I came here, Stevens Point wasn't a football school. Out of 600 sophomores at the school, we had 11 come out my first year. We were going down the halls and begging kids to come out. But we kept working at it, and things just got better.

Tom Wolfe

I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.

Mariella Frostrup

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

John Poole

Medicare picked up drug coverage, but no one picked up the transportation costs.

Christopher Dodd

Medicare has been one of the most successful, popular programs since its inception,

Victoria Velkoff

We're going to have to think about how pay for Social Security and Medicare and who's going to take care of this older population.

John Barrasso

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

Gary Karr

We are working on a new safety net process as a backstop. Somebody who has Medicare and Medicaid can go to the pharmacy and show proof and get his or her prescription filled.

Gary Karr

We are working on a new safety net process as a backstop, ... Somebody who has Medicare and Medicaid can go to the pharmacy and show proof and get his or her prescription filled.

Dan Mclaughlin

If they are stepping up the search and seizure to push people into the Medicare drug program, that's really an outrage.

Kent Conrad

My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts.

Donald Trump

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Jason Aldean

The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

Bill Uttley

This won't resemble anything that is in Hilliard now.

Tiffany Moulton

Everything you'd find in a floral arrangement, we have something to resemble it in fruit.

Gary Sharpe

We're going to the South side on Tuesday. Our seniors have never won down there.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Martin Brown

We have several seniors from a lot of different sports,

Meggie Ford

We thought some of our other seniors were going to get on through, but it was a heartbreaker.

Matt Loveland

We wanted to (get to state) for the seniors and we wanted to do it for (Graham).

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

James Nesbitt

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.