Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

Pat Roberts

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

Robert McCarthy

I don't remember the details (of the presentation), ... but I know I was impressed.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Sinclair Lewis

. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

Ehud Barak

shaping the overall strategy and the details of how to move forward.

Barbara Saunders

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

Tom Coburn

The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,

Maria Cheng

We don't have a lot of details as to what kinds of tests were done, but we are obviously keen to have the samples sent abroad.

Jack Kyser

One by one they faded away or were acquired.

Cedric Benson

I got it all down, ... I think just being off, it fades away a little bit. But it all comes back.

Nancy Clark

She's right. He will be missed, but the images are so powerful that they will not fade away.

Kyle Orton

I'd like to make teams pay for not taking me. Maybe that will fade eventually, but for now, it still stings.

Mark McKinnon

Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Rick Riordan

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

Rene Portland

With Michigan State, it was seven minutes to go in the game and we fade away. The other night (against Minnesota) with 2 1/2 minutes to go we were winning, then we faded away. So, the time that we are fading away is getting (smaller). We're making progress.

Tom Lee

We threw a fade route to No. 5. He made a great play.

John Corry

His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Will Montgomery

Man, I'd like to lose about 50 pounds.

Scott Eyre

Second place, obviously, is the first loser, but I'll still take the first loser as opposed to third place,

Tim Henman

One of us is going to win and one of us is going to lose but it won't be the be-all and end-all.

Bobby Bowden

No one has ever said anything to me about (retiring). Of course, if I lose about two more games, they will.

Sania Mirza

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

Arlen Specter

No one wants to back down and no one wants to lose face,

Al Lavan

Obviously it's tough to lose your starting quarterback prior to the season, but we will make adjustments and move forward.

Bryan Herta

Obviously it's not very nice to lose somebody like we did this morning. Right now I'm just doing my job. I don't really feel like racing.

Edgar Allan Poe

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Chris Evert

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

Keith David

Of course, I was sort of a TV junkie too.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Edmund White

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

Andrew Niccol

I can't go into a film if I don't think it has some sort of timelessness to it,

John Eldredge

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

Richard Matheson

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jerramy Stevens

No one is going to give us anything. We haven't done anything in the past. But we've been out here taking it (respect) this year, that's for sure.

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Ed Collins

If we do use that for (the ballpark), we are taking away from ourselves, not the state.

Doug Follis

If we're there at the end of the year, that's when it will matter. Right now, we're taking it game-by-game.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

David Akers

I can't say we haven't talked about that,'' Reid said,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Davey Johnson

I don't know anything about it. Nobody's talked to me.

Pat Howard

I don't know what he's doing. We have talked to him and he is going to have a look at all his options.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.