Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Clayton Christensen

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Flip Saunders

We've won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch.

Douglas Leone

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Kim Chance

We knew they were working back then and doing the improvement so I'm sure the city has it in well-capable hands.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Richard Parks Bland

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.

Tom Schatz

Until Congress sets priorities and restrains overall spending, members will continue to get failed ratings for protecting the interests of taxpayers,

Carter Canada

The point is, am I going to let Mary Smith and these other nice, older women be sent out of here thinking they'll have a voucher for the rest of their lives, when Congress is looking to cut the program? They're going to be in Miami somewhere, and they'll be homeless. That's why the fight is going on.

Alex Conant

We have no problem notifying Congress and sharing information with the Hill.

Al Gore

What the United States Congress does on this issue will have an enormous impact on the prospects of peace and prosperity in the far East,

Tamar Jacoby

What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.

Bill Clinton

When first graders shoot first graders, it's time for Congress to do what's right for America's families.

Martin Frost

While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public,

Charlie Chaplin

Let us fight to free the world

Charles Dickens

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stanley

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Spurgeon

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Sharpton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Al McGuire

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

Charles de Gaulle

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Karl Brown

We've got a team full of winners, they're not used to losing like this and they don't like it. The guys are giving everything they can, but right now we just can't seem to get the luck.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Santiago Cabrera

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

David A. Siegel

I can't tell anyone to vote.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Eazy-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Maher

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Bob Packwood

I don't trade my vote for money.

Caroline Kennedy

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Denzel Washington

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

DeForest Soaries

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

DeForest Soaries

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

DeForest Soaries

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Benjamin Tucker

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Chelsea Clinton

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Frank Beamer

We usually have four. The voting was so close, we went with all six.