Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Fran Townsend

There are a lot of dedicated, fine people at FEMA. They're very focused on providing a better response to the nation this year. And we need to be focused on that.

Tove Lo

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Bryan Robinson

What we did, that's all fine and dandy. We can walk around here with our (division championship) hats and shirts. I don't want to take away from what we did. That's a special thing. But nobody remembers any of that if you lose that first (playoff) game when you're at home. That would be a tough pill to swallow.

French Proverbs

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

Ramiro Mendoza

Venezuela helped me a lot. I'm fine now. All of my pitches are sinking and I've got my change, my curveball, everything. I just have to show I can pitch.

Marc Chandler

Ultimately, it is not the size of intervention that matters, but the timing of the move to finesse the market.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Robbie Reiser

When everyone had written us out of the chase, that spurred these guys on, and we weren't going to go down without a fight.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Jared Bernstein

Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent,

Brian McInerney

We're running out of snow for the watershed. This will probably be the peak they see this year, but there's no guarantee.

Moon Unit Zappa

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Jim Skipper

But at the peak of traffic, you can't run that stop sign or you will get killed,

Michael Mosley

'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.

Jeff VandeLoo

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

Dustin Riley

This weekend will tell us if we peaked at the right time or not.

Scott McCloud

Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," ()

Richard Veerman

We have not yet reached the peak of this epidemic.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Chuck Grassley

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