Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

David Coltart

It is a monumental defeat for the government.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Brian Kapusta

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Laurent Fournier

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.

Guillermo Coria

I didn't want to go out with a 6-1 6-1 defeat. This was an incredible match.

Bay Buchanan

Ideally, I would have hoped these people would have heard the fat lady singing and they would have realized the defeat for what it is.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

Bruce Good

Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.

Bharati Mukherjee

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

C. S. Lewis

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Walter Wilson

Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.

Carlo Piana

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives

Stephane Hessel

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Richard Sharpstein

There's obviously some political motive in the parade of his arrest.

Tom Connor

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.