Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Fosdick

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.

Jim Matheson

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its waste on the West. We still have never addressed the transportation risks, whether on the roads or rails to Skull Valley or Yucca Mountain. That is why this lethal cargo should stay where it is until an acceptable disposal solution can be found.

Arrigo Sacchi

Real Madrid has always been happy with him and we thank him for what he has done here. We wish him all the luck in the future. He asked to leave because this is World Cup year and here he wasn't always going to play. We didn't want to loan him out and only when a big offer arrived did we accept his transfer.

Nevada Democrat

President Bush must accept that he has to change course, reject the notion of an open-ended commitment in Iraq, and finally develop the plan that allows our troops to begin to come home.

Francis Fukuyama

President Bush has made some statements suggesting the US would accept whatever democratic outcome comes. Should the US be willing to do that, it suggests a major change in their position. But I think it is a little premature to assume that any real decision has been made. I think what they -- in the US administration -- are hoping for is a more gradual reform process in the Arab world, a more gradual expansion of political participation which Islamist groups do not use as an opportunity to come to power. So while I think there has been a shift in the US Middle East policy we will all have to wait to see how great that shift has been.

Chris Lewis

Our research shows a growing acceptance of IP telephony and associated services. It also shows that end users of all sizes are looking increasingly to third parties to take the burden of management of services off their hands. Packaging the right combination of applications, connectivity and management is the key to driving this into the mainstream market.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Ed Perkins

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,'

Chris Harrell

Part of why Tony is so hard to tackle is that he's a big guy and you don't know what to expect. Sometimes he'll make a move and go by you or sometimes he'll try to run you over. As a defender, he keeps you guessing. I guess I have to accept being run over sometimes.

Michael Sullivan

Our members and our overseas colleagues now have an opportunity to proceed to trial on our claims.

Peter Kruse

People need to deal with international colleagues and if you know an individual and you can remember his face during a telephone discussion, that's a useful side effect.

Michael Lord

Our software developers need to be in touch with colleagues and communication is easier if you can see each other.

Nathan Thielman

Our colleagues at KIWAKKUKI called it the 'crash' period because it was kind of crazy.

Yasin Malik

I will need to talk to my party colleagues and the decision will be conveyed by Wednesday.

David Kennedy

Just as the search committee rallied around this selection, I'm convinced that all of our industry colleagues will also find David Rehr the right person to lead NAB.

Kristin Dierking

I thank family, friends and Dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year.

Virginia Foxx

Like the rest of my colleagues joining me today, I am strongly in support of scientific research to save and improve human life.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performing fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win and I think the team is doing everything they can to win. When I'm down at league meetings and I talk to my colleagues down there, they say, 'Woody, this happens, unfortunately.

Gary Murphy

Parkview's a good team. They're going to be a dangerous team for a lot of people in their conference.

Marcia Angell

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.

Gary Weiss

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

Nasser Judeh

Such extremely dangerous weapons included missiles, explosives and machine guns. Such practices contradicts the nature of the Jordanian-Palestinian ties.

Simon Davies

Surveillance over our private lives has reached a dangerous new level.

Pink Floyd

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Sal Rosselli

Staffing has decreased dramatically over the years. Their normal operation is to eliminate departments and lay off staff. It's all about money to them. That's the real danger to patient care.

Rohan Gunaratna

Some groups have deep linkage, others minor linkages. Some were established a long time ago, others recently. But they are more dangerous as a movement, and have a much wider reach.

Vaclav Havel

Our task is to feel the danger of these regimes.

Bob Stein

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Jeff Lindsay

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Alexandra Chando

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

Michelle Gomez

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Gordon Strachan

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Denis Law

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Paul Gallagher

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Andy Murray

I am Scottish. I am also British.

Jackie Stewart

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

Chris Browne

But I still wish I was out in the sunshine with the Scottish team.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.