Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Day

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Matt Hayes

We want to relax and play our game. We want to play our game and not make mistakes. If we do that and don't panic and have a good counter to what they do, we will be fine.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Tom Kenny

We're selling far more online than over the counter in recent years. Overheads for online selling are far cheaper, not nearly as much as operating from a shop.

Brad Franchione

We have plenty of guys on offense who can play, we just need to find 11 who can do it together. I'm not sure they were on the field enough last week to know how they fit together. James Johnson ran 65 yards on a counter for the first play of the drive, so what can I say? I can't get mad at my offense for scoring too quickly.

Dave Adams

If one thing's not working, you can go to another thing. The defense has to honor the motion. We kind of wait to see what they do with our motion, and if they jumping over on that side, we can come back the other way with a counter play.

Nick Hatch

I would think it was unlikely they would counter offer.

Joel Stoneton

Jake played awesome. We saw that Livermore was rolling to our motion and we quickly went to counter with Jake and he ran it really well.

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Steve Thompson

We lacked the killer touch. It is as simple to explain and as difficult to put right as that.

Paul Browne

We know from experience how difficult it can be for new writers to get their work into print. As a result, there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there. We intend to find it.

Sven Eriksson

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

Pauline Hanson

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charles Tillman

The mind is a powerful tool.

Charles Tupper

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Emmanuel Soupre

We'll be very vigilant in terms of earnings.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Billy Higgins

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Benjamin Franklin

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

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.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

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 Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.