Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mardy Collins

We want to try and embarrass them and beat them by 30. They gave us a pretty good butt kicking. I give them credit, they played well, but we came out with no energy, came out flat, and let them do whatever they wanted to do.

Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Louis Navellier

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

Micky Ward

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Scott Found

The only difference between the Commonwealth and Cedar Run is that for the past seven years, Albemarle has gone to states and no one has beaten them. In the Cedar Run, I think everyone is more evenly matched. There is no team that everyone is going to lose to. It is so competitive because everyone is fighting for a spot.

Kevin Gaughan

The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.

Marvan Atapattu

The positive side of it is that we have managed to keep our intensive levels high to beat teams like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. We have done our homework well. We respect teams and we do what we can do best, without thinking too much about the opponents. It is shown by our results.

Thomas Yeager

The perception is that somehow they're paper tigers, and they aren't. Everybody needs to hope the higher seeds hold on and win their tournaments. If Gonzaga had gotten beat the other night, that would have taken up one of the other spots.

Coach East

We struggled with our shooting. We have to play better to beat a powerhouse team like Thatcher. This team is capable of doing just that. We have to play better as a team. Again, this was an important conference victory.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Bryce Davison

We always believed we might have an outside shot (at earning an Olympic berth) and that if we did our jobs and trained hard on and off the ice it could be a possibility.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Craig Davis

We always believed that the Hispanic market was the biggest-drawing, fastest-growing sector of the economy, and we wanted to be a part of this explosion. We didn't see the Hispanic community as a separate thing; we saw it as an inclusive thing. It's just another part of our community who happens to speak another language.

Wendy Anae

We always believed in the kids. It was just getting used to our system. They worked hard, and always played with heart. I think they deserve everything they've gotten.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

M. H. Abrams

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Jim Calhoun

The person who believes less in Josh is Josh. It's a daily progress with him to get him to believe.

Glenn Wilson

We are lucky to have Doug, who has been a great coach. He really believes in what we're doing here.

Tom Reilly

We are at a crossroads - young people are moving out of state. Our future is disappearing. You need a governor who believes in Massachusetts. There is nothing wrong that can't be fixed.

Martin Seligman

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Holly Holm

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Jon Meacham

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Kim Sears

Universities, colleges and business schools get that information on students. He believes military recruiters should too.

Charles Smulders

Vendors must find ways to persuade end-users to replace their PCs more frequently, ... Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form-factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.

Cleve Ryan

The other team has scored more than we have, and that's the bottom line.

Alan Pardee

We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance rankings.

Edmund Stoiber

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.

Bob Goin

We reinstated the guy. The bottom line is that he was cleared and he's back on the job. Now go do what you've got to do.

Chris Hoffman

We're in crisis - we're not meeting demand, and that's the bottom line,

Christopher Thornberg

We're in a housing-driven economy from top to bottom at this point in time.

Jose Canseco

We spoke about it quite in depth. And-you know when I op-when-when I rejoined the team back in '97, we'd be working out-talking about it. You know we'd go into clubhouses and do steroids. Bottom line.

Alan Curbishley

We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.

Alexandre Burrows

We have to have a better power play, that's the bottom line. We've got to get it done (tomorrow).

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Lorenzen Wright

What hurts the most is losing the way we did.

Lindsay Bowen

We didn't want to go out this way. It hurts a lot right now.

Rick Carlisle

We're down players, which hurts us, but also we're in a situation where we've got zero margin for error. We're going to have to make shots. We just could never get anything going offensively.

Matt Mantei

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Right now it hurts - bad.

Lisa Bluder

I don't know that a win here puts us in, but a loss here hurts us quite a bit. Last year, that was one that we did point to and say maybe this kept us out.

Unknown

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

Ben Voogd

To come out and not show up the one day we need to, that hurts the most.

Tom Davies

It hurts when you lose a tough one like that. That's why Southern Illinois is where they are, and where they've been.

Alex Rodriguez

It hurts to think about where we would be without these guys. They've been a godsend.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Alan Kay

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

John Pomfret

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

Brandon Roy

I think he made up for the Stanford game.

Ken Auletta

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Greg Kraft

We feel like Stanford will be the team to beat. We would really like to take them down.

Steve Jobs

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.