Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Orlando Early

The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.

Chris Connolly

The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.

Benj Steinman

The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.

Charles Dickens

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Alan Alda

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Chris Christie

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Camille Paglia

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

Vince Carter

We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit.

William Shakespeare

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

William Shakespeare

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Lili Simmons

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

Bob Watson

Yeah, I saw some things, I heard some things, ... But I dealt with them, and that's it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

L.K. Advani

Some MLAs may have personal differences. But all differences should be dealt with amicably within the party framework.

Stephen Barrett

should be dealt with individually under medical supervision.

Henry Fielding

Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

Jerry Angelo

We're going with the hand that we dealt ourselves. It's unfortunate; Rex will be missed.

Marlin Nilsson

This product is something that will have to be dealt with and livestock is one of the few things that can utilize it.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Anna Lindh

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

Kevin Crossley-Holland

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Elaine Sciolino

When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Scott Brown

We're seeing the productivity gains split up between wage increases and profits.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

August Wilson

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Melvin Watkins

What he told us is, it's an opportunity to get back to playing basketball. All the speculation was a heavy burden.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Brad Doyle

Yes, it will rain on their parade. There's a possibility of some heavy rains in the Pasadena area.

Josh Wright

We have really heavy guitars, but the vocals aren't heavy.

Francia Raisa

I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Anton Chekhov

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

John Brunious

We're not going to let a hurricane stop our music. This music is too important to the musicians and people of New Orleans, and to the people of the world. This music is our treasure and we want to share it.

Linda Casey

We started up with no problem. We were back up and running by the end of the weekend, when the hurricane had passed.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Phil McNichol

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

Jim Goetz

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Jon Favreau

If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.

Jane Smiley

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Timothy Sr

It is very shocking because it is a very close-knit neighborhood.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Guan Yi

We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.