Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Graziano

Our season was never in jeopardy, ... Rebecca is a graduate assistant. She said some things out of context and with emotion. She said some things that she regrets.

Tom Daschle

Our goal is to make sure that it's done within the context of fiscal responsibility. We've got to recognize that we didn't get here by accident,

Peter Wilson

Malloway's statements were made in the context of formal police interviews. She understood she had an obligation to be truthful. The fact she was willing to take a polygraph test supports her reliability.

Andrew Heyward

Just as the enormity of Katrina has created a new context for Rita, it has also done so for us,

Richard Wilbur

That's what (Hill) died for, the right for people to protest. But I don't think a funeral is the right place or context in the way they are protesting. It's not something the family needs to hear, that we're glad your son's dead and that your minister is a whore.

Arlen Specter

I think that it would be very, very difficult for the president to explain that, in the context of information leading up to why that would be so,

Bill Callahan

I thought it was an opportunity to go for it all. I never thought in any vein or any context that it was too big. I never felt that. Never sensed that. But I did know that I had nothing to lose.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Michael Riedel

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

Rocky Nichols

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Harry Reid

I think it's right and proper for the Moderator to speak out on matters of great public interest. Too often in the recent past Moderators have failed to do so.

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

John Montgomery

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

Tony Leon

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

Joseph Addai

We play with our helmets and you see it on the scoreboard.

Brandi Brown

We picked three-man so we could spray their helmets red, white and blue, for America.

Brian Griese

Whoever stole the helmets obviously didn't know that the quarterback helmets were the most valuable because they have the speakers in the helmets. The other helmets are $150 to $200 but our helmets are like $3,000. So whoever stole them must not have known that.

Lisa Voss

We talk to the parents at the same time and say you really should have helmets as well because we need to lead by example.

Joe Hall

Relatives said (Mr. Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

Joe Hall

Relatives said he (Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

Ron Vos

Part of the project involved getting kids to send in videos. We set up news crews to go out and videotape the kids; we also had to find contractors to mount satellite dishes.

Zwelinzima Vavi

Surely we ought to respect the rights of all involved in the case.

Marlon Defillo

Out of 1,750 officers, we're looking into the possibility that maybe 12 officers were involved in misconduct.

Aaron Boone

That's the ultimate, man. To win one of those, to be involved in something like that, that's what we all play for.

Shea Hillenbrand

I think it's the atmosphere, it's everything involved with the Yankees and Yankee Stadium.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Claudia Stuart

Lisa was involved with so many organizations, and she was a trusted member within anything that she did.

Amy Bloom

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

Fran Clader

Everything the officers did in each of these occasions was right.

Cassandra Clare

Woolsey bites on occasion

Leigh Hunt

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

William Penn

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

Aaron Peirsol

I think it's rare you surprise yourself like that,

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

David Harsanyi

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

E. M. Forster

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Source Unknown

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

Kristin Hannah

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

James K. Polk

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

James Rollins

The truth is often one's best shield.

Juliana Hatfield

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?

Queen Rania of Jordan

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

Samantha Mumba

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

Les Dawson

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.