Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rubin Carter

Regardless of where you have been in the past, you have to go out and compete, give your best effort and don't quit. I only see a tremendous upside based on what I've been through with this program so far.

Corazon Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Lisa Randall

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Randy Vossburg

Releasing such a statement to the media (on Tuesday) before the township even had a chance to see the documents in question showed a distinct lack of courtesy and respect by the department. Creating media frenzy did not serve anyone's best interest and undermined efforts for good faith discussions based on preparation, planning and good sound scientific advice.

Colin Masson

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Ricardo Alarcon

President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.

Trip Chowdhry

Our research shows that Oracle is losing some database business to IBM and Microsoft, ... Based on that, I doubt if the company can raise sales guidance.

Joe Horrigan

Our position has always been that O.J. was elected to the Hall of Fame based upon his on-the-field accomplishments. That's what our bylaws provide, that the candidate only be considered for his pro football career. And as such, he is in the Hall of Fame and will remain in the Fall of Fame.

Fidel Castro

Our relations are based on mutual interest and devotion to peace, in the context of cooperation and integration.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Trevor Hoffman

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

Mark LaTurner

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Gene Rasmussen

Rebounding and second chance opportunities were a big key for us.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

Jose Maria

Real Madrid created their chances and we couldn't have done anymore. I had the feeling we were going to be struck by an avalanche,

Li Zhi

Regulators have picked out two points this year: encouraging fund inflow to the market and revving up studies of new derivative products. The index has a good chance to test 1,300 this week.

John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

Dragan Cavic

Our positions are considerably different. We shall see today whether there is a chance for creating a middle ground.

John Bunting

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

George Gekas

I will be one of those who will be greeting the president, respecting the office of the presidency, recognizing that the State of the Union message is a normal protocol for the American people, and will extend the courtesy that is necessary,

Fat Joe

I feel so safe tonight with all of this police protection courtesy of G-Unit,

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Paul Handley

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.

E. V. Lucas

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Mick Leary

We've given Craig the courtesy of talking to him at a later date.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Pat Davis

Our recent - and forthcoming - announcements are indications that we are well down the track to creating sustainable broad-based empowerment ventures.

Larry Magid

Part of the answer, ... has to do with creating support systems at home that are adequate, and part is the kids understanding that there is no free lunch.

Mike Switalski

Our offensive off-ball moment was creating opportunities today. Our sweeper (Ben Conrad) did a good job defensively for us today as well.

Mohammed Kamal

Our message is that we are creating a platform for change.

Karin Brower

Our problems in the past were creating opportunities. Now we need to finish them.

Marty Simmons

Maybe it is not scoring or rebounding. The guys are doing a good job defensively of creating good opportunities for their teammates. They are a good team to coach.

John Caudwell

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

Bebe Neuwirth

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

Bill Crawford

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

Jason Wu

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

Richard Branson

It is a distinct possibility and it is not just to the States.

Sathya Baba

GOD is neither distant, nor distinct from you.

Kimberley Nixon

I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something.

Dennis Lillee

I got the distinct impression Warne was the pseudo captain,

Asha Bhosle

There is a distinct lack of efforts on the part of the singers, as a result of which the songs being rendered are sans tone and emotions

Sathya Baba

Mind is a wonder,It has no distinct form or shape.

Jules Verne

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

John Wesley Powell

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

Ken Paulson

our reporters publishing this story were kind of proud of the fact that they had identified '60 Minutes' source and gotten the documents from that source rather than the White House.

Carl Goldberg

Our main goal is to understand if, in fact, they still can maintain the construction schedule, and if they can keep to the mix of uses that already is in the documents they've signed. There's no flexibility on that front.

Jarrod Agen

We now have over 8,000 different types of documents that people can use to get into the United States.

Chris Seeger

I think they were much better prepared this time. They knew their documents better and their cross-examinations were better.

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Silvio Berlusconi

I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,

Ernestine Fobbs

Given that employers have no legal obligation to thoroughly investigate whether documents presented to them by new employees are valid or not, they often have a de facto defense.

Yuriy Yekhanurov

I have already issued instructions that the necessary documents be prepared, and on Wednesday (March 22) we will resume negotiations.

Hilary Shelton

I think the disadvantage is that the Senate is moving as fast as it is. With the White House releasing documents as slowly as it has been doing, we would think that the entire Senate would want to be more circumspect.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Aldrich Ames

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Kirk Hinrich

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

John Kilduff

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Mikhail Gorbachev

It is a worthy reward for his efforts over many years. He is a man who does his job solidly and responsibly.

Mark Rylance

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Douglas Alexander

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics.

Bob Woods

People in the system are losing faith in it.

John Ruskin

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.

Sathya Baba

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.  

Bible Bible

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Roland Martin

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

Bill Shuster

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Harry Reid

If this merger frenzy continues, we could end up with three, two, maybe only one airlines, and I think that we have a tremendous obligation to the American public to make travel more pleasant.

Josh Freed

If this is the frenzy now, what's it going to be like the last week of December?

Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

Ron Davis

It took the frenzy out of the T&E reporting and reimbursement process.

Terry Palmisano

These e-mails have gotten everyone stirred up into such a frenzy that people think mountain lions are knocking on people's doors, ready to come in.

Bill Gates

I'm not saying we won't participate in this frenzy a little bit,

Mary Jackson

It's not a frenzy like it used to be, but it's a good line.

James Thomas

It is very premature to get worked into a frenzy at this point. The investigation is continuing. We don't want there to be a rush to judgment.

George Herbert

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Alan Greenspan

Our operating procedures, as you suggest, do tend to smooth out short-run fluctuations in short-term interest rates,

Chris Byrne

Star Wars' is a 20-year-old brand. When the next 'Star Wars' movie comes out, there's going to be much more interest in the product.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Beck

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Sophia Drossos

Reinforcement of imbalances and lack of saving in the United States is not dollar-friendly.

Calvin Coolidge

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Rob Portman

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

Tony Pinto

Our beef, for lack of a better word, is with FEMA, not with the victims.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Frank Gannon

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term,

Bruce Arena

I think there is a lack of respect for our soccer.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus, ... We'll work at it, and the next time they won't try to do those things.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Tom Nalen

I was planning on working this week, then going to Detroit. It's a disappointment.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Johan Bruyneel

He's planning on being here. Just sitting with me in the car, he helps.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Liu Jianchao

it is appropriate now to refer this question to the U.N. Security Council.

Cliff May

I think there's no question that he has, I would say, support from the White House,

MaryEllen Elia

I think there's no question we have some things that we need to do.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Nicole Vaidisova

I think the question is, 'What was not the problem?

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Patrick Murphy

That wasn't the time to question our government,

Peter Murphy

We need to look at the value of releasing these players.

Brian De Palma

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

Randy Means

We're going to be releasing the results of the investigation of Ernest Page.

Jeaniene Frost

The 'Broken Destiny' series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Michael Ratner

They have been very resistant to releasing the names.

Lisa Davis

There is no truth in the story that he won't be making or releasing any more records.

Lisa Davis

There is no truth in the story that he won't be making or releasing any more records.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Howard Rubenstein

out of respect we will not be doing anything for the moment.

Paul DePodesta

out of respect for what he's done here.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

out of respect for the will of the people.

Ron Anderson

Out of respect for Jerry, I can't say anything more.

George Bataille

Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.

James Howell

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know if there's a scientific way to do it.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Darius Rucker

Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Steve Doocy

That's what it was all about. You didn't want to sound like KLWN; you didn't want to be Top 40.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Paul Briggs

It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.

Rick Christman

It doesn't sound like a lot, but they do a whole lot of work.

Timothy Chaucer

It does kind of sound like the writing is on the wall with this issue, doesn't it?

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.