Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Houllier

Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Peter Mandelson

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

David Dein

None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.

Greg Evans

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Brian White

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

Adam Rickitt

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Marilyn Monroe

My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Stevie Jackson

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

Michael Leunig

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Chris Bailey

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Amiruddin Saud

Moved by our nationalist sentiments, we decided to call a boycott of all Australian commodities.

Michael Healy

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Joseph Capurso

Of all the economic statistics, the labor market best highlights the underlying strength of the Australian economy.

Carol Cooper

None of us knew how the Faithfulls had become the Maple-Browns, ... Pamela and Jim spoke about them as family, and we had to pretend we knew who they were talking about. Now we know them all . This is a family drama. They are real people, they have real passions and intrigues. Major Australian events were going on around them.

Derek Brewer

No one had seen anything like it; every time England took another Australian wicket, the switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree. By the end of the day another 7,000 had been sold.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

Frank Lowy

Maybe next time it can be an Australian but this is a global game. It's not about nationality, it's about talent and finding somebody with the right experience.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

Paul Wick

Last year was a year of unprecedented volatility. The euphoria is gone and we're back to reality.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Richard Franulovich

Net-net, given the sharp U.S. upward revisions to payrolls, for the euro to punch higher to fresh highs is nothing short of spectacular,

Peter Power

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

Richard Franulovich

More people are targeting lower levels in the euro and momentum is picking up,

Ashton Holmes

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Graham Watson

My good friend Simeon Saxe-Coburg is the prime minister who implemented the reforms necessary for Bulgaria's EU accession.

Scott Dowell

Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so far geographically.

Joan Jett

No ones immune now, to a world of problems. No ones exempt now, from a world of pain!

Dick Gephardt

So instead of trying to hold them accountable for what they have done wrong, it seems that some in the Republican leadership want to exempt them from any accountability in the legal system for what they have done wrong.

David Fay

She's not exempt now. But she's in limbo.

CeeLo Green

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

Ben Stein

We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.

Austin Scott

All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.

Danielle Steel

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

Mike Rann

There is no place in the world which is somehow exempt from the threat of terrorism. It is a threat to all of us.

Patricia Wright

In essence, we want to know if Title I funds will be withheld if we exempt non-Title I schools that don't get the money. That is the million-dollar question.

Gregg Moskowitz

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,

Beyonce Knowles

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Melvin Scott

Yeah, a big hump. The talk about the Tar Heels is that we can't win on the road.

Jerry Stackhouse

We were just not in the game. We were totally knocked on our heels in the first half.

Dan Starkey

We set them back on their heels early. But when they got rolling, they rolled.

Catherine Young

I thought we kept them off their heels a little bit.

Rick Carlisle

He had us on our heels a lot of the night.

Bob Semling

I think they imposed their will on us. They made tough shots and big shots and executed. They knocked us on our heels and they got us to go out of character.

Jody Conradt

We're improving, but I don't know if we're improving quickly enough. This team has been on its heels for some time. We've been in a perfect storm.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Craig Hansen

I feel like I'm ready. I feel like my game's 100 percent right now.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

David Buck

I would say 99 percent of what's out there on the road right now is not a safety hazard, not an impediment.

Kyle Cavanaugh

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.

Tony Blair

We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Ann Coulter

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

John Izzo

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

Xosha Roquemore

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

Peter Thomson

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

Deborah Kerr

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

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.

Bob Dylan

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

Torin Francis

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

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.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Albert J. Nock

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

P. Chidambaram

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Thorstein Veblen

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.