Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Charles M. Schulz

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Dennis Phillips

We're going to pay user fees for water and sewer and it's my understanding the burden of extension lines will be on the shoulders of the developers, not the city,

Robert Cooper

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

Lee Edwards

We know what Jon is capable of. What we were trying to do is take some of the burden off his shoulders.

Brian Barnhart

There are only five weekends after the Indy 500 that we aren't on the track. That puts the burden on the teams in terms of preparation, but it also provides much better storytelling from one week to the next on television.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

David Sedaris

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

Larry Alexander

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

Deb Caletti

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Lester Holt

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Ricardo Semler

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

Betty Williams

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Brent Weeks

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

James Denney

We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality.

Eric Nicoli

We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now.

John Lamb

We're finally putting it together. It's been really hard getting everything together. We didn't have time to mesh. We are finally showing some good signs.

Muffet McGraw

We're finally playing the way we can. You're always 0-0 when you start the tournament. For this team, that's a good thing.

Charles Studd

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Charles Spurgeon

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Charles Spurgeon

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Spurgeon

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Ashton Eaton

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

Doug Biega

His spirits are lifted. He's got the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders.

Adam Beach

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

Rick Miller

You can master it in two weeks. I've taken people who have never lifted weights and they look like a pro in two weeks.

Andretti Green

I think for me the nicest thing is I'm going to be able to sleep now...Having won it is a big weight lifted off my shoulders ,

Ellen Locke

Patients love it, families, my staff, of course. It's a nice morale-booster. It's kind of lifted spirits throughout the year.

Gerhard Schroeder

Our opinion is that the sanctions that have been placed no longer make any sense and that they should be lifted as soon as possible,

Senator Kerry

You may not understand completely in what ways, but it is true when I say to you that you have taught me and you've tested me and you've lifted me up, and you made me stronger

Nika Fleiss

It was a lot of wind. It lifted my skis. I had no control.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.