Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Fosdick

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.

Jim Matheson

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its waste on the West. We still have never addressed the transportation risks, whether on the roads or rails to Skull Valley or Yucca Mountain. That is why this lethal cargo should stay where it is until an acceptable disposal solution can be found.

Arrigo Sacchi

Real Madrid has always been happy with him and we thank him for what he has done here. We wish him all the luck in the future. He asked to leave because this is World Cup year and here he wasn't always going to play. We didn't want to loan him out and only when a big offer arrived did we accept his transfer.

Nevada Democrat

President Bush must accept that he has to change course, reject the notion of an open-ended commitment in Iraq, and finally develop the plan that allows our troops to begin to come home.

Francis Fukuyama

President Bush has made some statements suggesting the US would accept whatever democratic outcome comes. Should the US be willing to do that, it suggests a major change in their position. But I think it is a little premature to assume that any real decision has been made. I think what they -- in the US administration -- are hoping for is a more gradual reform process in the Arab world, a more gradual expansion of political participation which Islamist groups do not use as an opportunity to come to power. So while I think there has been a shift in the US Middle East policy we will all have to wait to see how great that shift has been.

Chris Lewis

Our research shows a growing acceptance of IP telephony and associated services. It also shows that end users of all sizes are looking increasingly to third parties to take the burden of management of services off their hands. Packaging the right combination of applications, connectivity and management is the key to driving this into the mainstream market.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Ed Perkins

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,'

Chris Harrell

Part of why Tony is so hard to tackle is that he's a big guy and you don't know what to expect. Sometimes he'll make a move and go by you or sometimes he'll try to run you over. As a defender, he keeps you guessing. I guess I have to accept being run over sometimes.

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Don Mischer

People look at what we do and call us stress junkies. You just say to yourself, 'If I'm going to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front of a billion people?

Peter Ashkenaz

States are eventually going to save billions of dollars under the new program. And that's why very few states decided to join this lawsuit, despite requests for them to do so.

Bill Bradley

Our program would cost between $50 and $65 billion to make sure 95 percent of all Americans have health insurance. We can get this right,

Joel Staff

Our priorities for 2006 will include completing the transition to a fully competitive retail market in Texas, converting to an open model in our wholesale business, improving the commercial capacity factor of our generating plants and managing our collateral exposure to reduce postings by $1 billion by year-end.

Ken Bacon

Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.

Werner Braun

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

Jim Redding

Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.

Joel Fuhrman

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Kevin McCabe

Regardless of the operator, the Department of Homeland Security controls all security operations in the seaport. That's our job.

Mike Shaver

Organizations will be able to set up their own update system that uses the same client-side piece, so they can control what gets updated and when. And we are scaling our own infrastructure to deal with our growing user base.

Paul Murphy

Organizations ultimately exist as information and control processing tools, and outsourcing IT therefore diminishes overall organizational value.

Tom Shepard

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Jim Baron

Parfait played solid, he played under control and very poised.

Bill Owens

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

Josh Towers

(Pat) Hentgen used to tell me: 'You can't control wins and losses, you can control what you do'. That's why I think for a lot of veteran guys they understand how important it is to throw a lot of innings, to get 200-plus innings,

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Brian Billick

Passion, emotion and intensity are good, but they've always got to be under control.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Jenni Engebretsen

Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they're now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Keith Martin

Harper adheres to this notion that society should morally ( penalize ) people who use illegal drugs.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Cornel West

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth