Famous Quotes & Sayings

David K. E. Bruce

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

Pierre Lafontaine

We know we can still count on him to help us in our efforts to build and strengthen Canadian swimming as an ambassador and as a mentor to young athletes.

Tom Park

We are a highly-visible brand ambassador for the Disney brand as a whole.

Lew Wasserman

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Joseph Biden

What happens when our ambassador has to stand up and make the case on intelligence relating to Iraq and North Korea? ... Do you think John Bolton is going to be believed? And do you think it matters? I think it matters a great deal.

David Raith

She is a tremendous champion and she has not missed a national championships since 1992. She has been a great ambassador to the sport.

James Rubin

Secretary Albright had asked Ambassador Ross to travel to the region this week. Of course, she will be following the situation closely.

Jennifer Pagonis

She takes her work for us extremely seriously and that means a lot to her and the staff. She's a terrific goodwill ambassador who can help people understand the difficult life of a refugee.

Guy Perron

She's great to the kids who come to our games and any time you ask her to do something, she goes beyond it. She's a great ambassador for our program.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Dan Monson

We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Barry Russell

We have played two really good teams who had something on the line. It was very difficult to win in San Angelo and (the Odessa High) game was very much like a playoff game for them.

Mike Dement

We have a young team this year and we're playing a difficult schedule. So I would say that I'm probably drawing from it even now, the things you have to do with a young team and how you have to handle them. That was an experience with that very young Duke team. As seniors, they made that first Final Four and the rest is history from there.

Sophia Young

The fact that she has multiple moves makes her difficult to guard. She used her up-and-under quite a bit. We fell for her fakes a lot.

Arthur Henderson

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Jose Contreras

When I'm in the zone, it's difficult for players to hit me. That's what I've been working on -- getting in the zone.

Sharon Salzberg

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Paul Jewell

There is a lot of goodwill towards us, but only because people don't see us as a threat,

Greg Day

We can't help but feel this is a hold-to-ransom rather than a goodwill gesture.

Marina and the Diamonds

There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown!

Matt Kennedy

It's worked out well. I think it looks nice here and people want to come here. I hope the goodwill spreads and makes this strip (along 3rd St.) better.

Mahmoud Othman

If there is goodwill from everybody, there could be more concessions,

Paramahansa Yogananda

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

William Feather

None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

H. Hunt

We are seriously considering charging her as an adult,

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Abu Sabaya

If they wanted to seriously talk to us, they should show it by removing the military. While the soldiers are here, there will be no talking.

Bryan Williams

We take every setback seriously because we want to stay on schedule. We'll keep testing.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Jim Calhoun

He's a terrific 5-on-5 player, much better than he is a 2-on-2 or a 1-on-1 player.

John Copeland

He was a terrific bloke. He's going to be missed.

Adam Haluska

He just made a terrific shot. There's not much we can do about it now.

Jeff Ruland

If they don't get into the NIT, they should do away with the NIT. They're a terrific team.

Jen Niebling

I thought we were really terrific in the first half.

Scott Johnson

I thought Gavin was terrific having been out for so long.

J. M. Roberts

Give Villanova credit, they're a terrific team. They (made) some big-time plays.

Jeff Moorad

a terrific part of our organization's history, and presumably, a part of its future.

Kevin Henderson

It's not typical now to have a terrific rainfall every 10 days.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.