Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can. We're fortunate we have 11 other properties that afford us great flexibility from an employee and a customer standpoint.

Scott Sanders

We have to have a popular price for this show so that anyone who wants to see The Color Purple, regardless of their income level, can afford to come,

Madeline Albright

We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,

Mike Herndon

We were already down two games, and we felt like we couldn't afford to go down three. We talked about it yesterday and today before the game.

Nick Boynton

We have put ourselves in a pretty good position the last month or so, so we have as good a chance as anybody to make it. We should have gotten more points than we did in the last week, but we can't do anything about that now. We just can't afford to let points get away the rest of the season.

Joe McInerney

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

Herman Walton

When you get to the playoffs, you can't afford to turn the ball over. Free throw shooting is always important too. That's an area that we need to work on.

Arnold Palmer

The fact is the Berger Foundation has afford us the opportunity to do this. You can't beat it. This is something that, I think as far as golf and golf-related things are concerned, this is the kind of thing that should happen more and more, and particularly in cities where they have golf tournaments such as this.

Deborah Dowdell

The reality is, today, in some communities, really just the big guys or the chains can afford to buy into the system. Our system has made it prohibitive for small operators to buy into.

Bruce Betts

We have no idea if there really are aliens. The next question would be, If there are aliens, can we detect it? The answer is yes. With this telescope we now have a much better chance.

Brian Martin

When he follows the court's guidelines that dictate his behavior, he will find himself able to fulfill a handful of jobs, most of which will be manual labor. The first six months of his life will be spent trying to work for near minimum wage, spending half his free time answering questions from media outlets, book writers and more. Not a life I would enjoy.

Stephen Browning

We want our staff to be externally focused, to be out in the communities, educating, building relationships with the constituents we serve, not in an office answering phones. We can do it better in a centralized manner.

Darin Shepardson

We were better in a couple of spots, but overall we need to be better mentally prepared for a race. Cross country's a sport where you have to be ready to go when the gun goes off. You're not going to find the answers out of the course.

Glen Flanagan

We were balanced; it was a fun game. It was a packed house. Any time we tried to pull away, they would answer back.

Sandy Whelan

We were answering everything they threw at us. We are an extremely young basketball team. ... We came close. We have never been here (to the county semifinals) before, and now we know exactly what it takes.

Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Jeff Tank

We've shot well the last two nights and that's encouraging. I can't complain about the offense, they were just too athletic to stop consistently on defense. We had no answer for their athleticism.

Jim Gillette

There are a lot of fragile suppliers out there.

Christopher Thornberg

Let's put it this way: We will be in a fragile economy.

Bill Carmody

But we will be a little more fragile this time.

Derian Hatcher

Obviously, right now we're a fragile team. I don't think there are any questions about it.

James Wolfensohn

Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity, ... miss this opportunity for change, we will regret it for the next decade.

Darcy Tucker

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

John Sacchi

We need to keep taking small steps to improve. Our kids are young and fragile and we need to keep their spirits up and keep them moving in the right direction.

Nora Ephron

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

Venus Williams

Her racket is actually fragile -- powerful but fragile,

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.

Sandy Lazzaroni

We're competing. That's something we haven't done in the past. The whole morale of the team is different.

Andy Carter

Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.

Clarence Seedorf

Today's victory was important for our condition, morale and conviction.

Chris Johns

Just for morale and confidence, this was a big game. I'd still like to see us score some more goals, but this is a start.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Win Bates

Our morale has been pretty good. Everyone's been supportive throughout our many practices.

Luis Aragones

It's going to be difficult...(but) my morale is intact,

Cedric Bozeman

It was great. It was a morale booster for us.

Stephen Hawking

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Carlos Castaneda

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

C. S. Lewis

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

Agnes Repplier

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Alan Kay

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Charlotte Bronte

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

Charlotte Bronte

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

Charles de Lint

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles Dickens

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset