Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Matt Ridley

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Peter Coolidge

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

Mark Wagner

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Chris Colfer

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Chris Colfer

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

John Page

We've already done our investigation and presented it to the grand jury,

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Seth Godin

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Calvin Klein

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Sonya Boralv

We don't have other announcements of any other hotspots. At this point, we're testing these limited locations.

Siri Hustvedt

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Andy Wachowski

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

Larry Neumann

Understand this about that scrimmage. We didn't scheme any for Jasper.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Matt Hasselbeck

There really isn't a weakness I see right now. Their scheme is so sound.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.