Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Rawlings

We have to go out and do the things that we do and try to do them well. Battle Mountain's got a good team. They've got the height advantage on us. We're going to have to play well. We're going to have to play good defense. We're going to have to box out. We're going to have to get on the boards, the fundamentals of basketball.

John Knight

We have to go for whatever advantages we can, whatever weaknesses we can spot.

Clint Chamberlin

We have some deep areas that we're trying to clear a path, but the snow is really hard and tough to move. We're hoping for some warm weather before then. I don't think home field advantage will make much of a difference; conditions will make the biggest difference.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Roy Smith

When firms are going through distractions, those who aren't so distracted may have an advantage in the two or three deals that make a difference in the standings.

Morgan Ensberg

We want it closed because we feel we have a distinct advantage if its closed. But I'm a 30-year-old man and I can deal with it. It's not like they stole my dog.

Tom Renney

We want him to stay out of the penalty box. At the same time, it's a fine line, because you don't want him to change his game. He can certainly influence a game, and I thought he did. I thought we created a bit of an advantage for ourselves by the way he came out to play, and maybe he took New Jersey off their game, at least initially.

Scott Walker

We've still got time to turn things around. It's a long year. Getting that home-ice advantage would be huge for us and we want to earn it.

Charlotte Bronte

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Joe McInerney

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

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.

Mark Hanna

We know we can use that biomass to make ethanol or other products. We just have to develop the technology to do it in an affordable manner.

Terri Sewell

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.

Ben Hecht

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how to buy low-cost, affordable computers.

Paul Thomas

We are honored to participate in this Consumer Choice Initiative, and we applaud the Mayor for recognizing the importance of consumer choice and especially for educating consumers about the benefits of pollution free electricity from renewable sources. Most people don't know that making electricity is the leading cause of industrial air pollution in the United States. Green Mountain Energy Company provides customers with an easy way to purchase clean, affordable electricity.

Joe Speed

We want to tell people, 'Here's a place for you to do your stuff.' We want it open, not just for people here, but everywhere. We are non-profit. We want it to be affordable and available.

Larry James

We are proposing to develop 209 units of high-quality, very affordable housing, including about 100 units of housing for formerly homeless individuals and 100 units of housing for low-income individuals.

Anna Burger

We are pleased to see that Maryland legislators stepped up and made a statement about what kind of businesses they want in their state. Marylanders deserve businesses that provide for their employees, pay a decent wage and provide affordable health care, not those that expect taxpayers to foot the bill for their bottom-line corporate profits. They get that with Fair Share Health Care.

Robert Kerr

We want to reduce the motoring public's exposure to impaired drivers through aggressive enforcement.

Marc Johnson

We have to get UI to do a really aggressive maintenance program throughout the spring and into the summer, particularly during the breeding season, so the birds aren't allowed to build even a small nest.

Andy Jackson

We have to get a lot better at doubles. Particularly, we have to get more aggressive there.

Jeff Altchech

We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team that gets the calls. Today I thought we earned the calls.

Chris Cichocki

When you see a team several times in a short time span, that can happen. You have two teams who play hard-hitting aggressive hockey.

Donna Proctor

We were being aggressive and trying to make things happen, and it just didn't work out. We talked about being aggressive, and we have a little more speed this year, so we're trying to use that.

Flea

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

Jay Sparks

We were trying to take it right to them, but we didn't do a very good job of that. We could throw it in there, but we didn't do a very good job of being aggressive once we got there.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside or outside. He was very aggressive and his shots were falling, so we were going to keep going to him until he tired himself out.

Jeremy Bryan

We want to score points first, to be ahead in the first two rounds. And then that's when you go in the last two rounds, digging in there, trying to finish him off. That's our plan. We'll see if it works in Colorado.

Bruce Misamore

We want to progress the pipeline, China wants to progress the pipeline but they are a bit concerned about reserves, ... Also we are yet to finalize equity interest in the project. That is key if we are to go ahead with financing.

Tom Brady

We have as much to gain this year as every team out there. We feel like a team that is 0-0 and we have our goals ahead of us just like everybody else.

John Hammerschmidt

We have some detailed and painstaking work ahead of us in what are not the best weather conditions.

Laura Bush

What the terrorists have done has caused us to take an assessment of what's important, ... I have been concerned for too long about a culture that says if it feels good just go ahead and do it. I believe that this nation is strong enough, and focused enough, and dedicated enough to usher in a culture that says each of us is responsible for the decisions we make in life.

Helen Rowland

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Jaime Sarbaugh

We want people to have enough time to go ahead and get out in time.

Matthias Platzeck

We want negotiations on building a government to move ahead swiftly.

Cliff Lee

We wanted to win this series and we got that done. To get out ahead of that team for the first time in a long time, that's a good thing.

Bill Polian

We have no details with respect to events surrounding the cause of the cut. As is our policy, our security department will conduct an investigation and report back promptly. As always, we will share the results of that investigation with appropriate league officials.

David Mills

Whenever we talk about the environment, we need to know what we're talking about and not cause people to fear,

John Moffitt

Whenever we'd run into another American, that was always cause for celebration.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Karl Smesko

We were trying to stop the guard penetration and not let them cause problems with the dribble. We also emphasized rebounding, getting on the boards.

Alan Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

Bjorn Hanson

We've seen ... substantial occupancy increases, which cause developers, lenders and others to have confidence that positive trends will continue.

Brent Wilkes

The fact that Latinos are underrepresented in the service causes us concern because the service is often a way to the middle class for many immigrants. If you don't have a lot of options, would you rather go into the service and get a middle-class career, or stay in the fields all these years?

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Jack Lewis

We have some concerns about the use of the vehicles as this legislation is written. We will be talking to the sponsor and expressing our concerns and may be working something out.

Grady Little

We have some concern for Navarro. They're saying 10-to-14 days.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Richard Cripps

We've seen a noticeable pickup in concern over the last two months.

Nicholas Burns

We have registered our concerns with the Indian government of course,

Navtej Sarna

We have received this offer and it will be examined in consultation with the concerned authority.

Don Roose

The real concern is that it is spreading. We have not been able to put the fire out yet, and to think we can sit here isolated, you would have to be naive.

Jim Davis

We were trying to get someone to drive in and if he could look for someone to take an open shot.

Tom Johnston

We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

Jared Bernstein

We've seen we can drive the economy at 4 percent unemployment with strong productivity gains. I won't be satisfied until we're back there. Many working families won't be either, I'd guess.

Greg Tacon

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

Erwin McManus

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

Kyrie Irving

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

David Richards

We set out 10 years ago to improve safety for competitors and spectators. We've not seen a driver killed for 20 years almost,

Timothy Noah

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Sgt. Carr

We're just telling folks not to drive if they don't have to.

Mitt Romney

We're going to need to find, in many cases, permanent housing for these individuals. Jobs, housing, transportation and the like,

Teresa Caffese

She lost her housing because of him. That only deepened the illness in a way that is very sad.

Susan Wachter

Most people were projecting that interest rates would go up and the housing market would be hit,

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bonnie Adams

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Bertrand Delanoe

More than ever, housing must be a national priority,

James Sullivan

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Richard Burr

We're talking well over 100,000 people we have to find temporary housing for,

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Long

We've seen a slight increase (in international travelers). But it's not like it used to be.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Steve Sullivan

We were being embarrassed. We were being intimidated, we just sat and told ourselves that we can outplay them.

Ashley Pelzek

We've set ourselves up well. We know we can win these games.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Bryan Mullins

We stuck together. We didn't get down on ourselves or point fingers.

Ben Roethlisberger

We still see ourselves as the underdogs. We always have. If people want to pick us, they can.

Corey Claitt

We started off real slow this season, but we wanted to put ourselves back on the map.

Keith Foulke

We're not going to roll over. It's unfortunate that we've put ourselves in this situation. But we're not going to give it to them. We're going to go out there and fight, fight, fight.

Gloria Starr

We're ruining ourselves around the world by using inappropriate verbiage and symbols.

Denny Rinehart

We're going to throw ourselves right in there, headfirst, and see what we're made of right from the beginning.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Trai Byers

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Burmese Proverb

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

Tim Ferguson

But we didn't realize that it was going to be that temporary.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Eckhart Tolle

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Bruce Springsteen

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Torin Francis

He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.

Xosha Roquemore

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carol Roth

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Shields

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Carol Shields

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.