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.

Sarah Lowe

We knew they were talented. We didn't come out with the focus and composure we needed against a team like that.

David McClure

We knew they were good three-point shooters and we knew they were real good running their set plays against man (defense). We wanted to try and see how they would do against a zone and it worked for us tonight." ()

Phil Murphy

We knew they were fast and we still panicked. We would have liked a little more time, but you don't get that against a team like that.

Jeff Mittie

We knew they hadn't been going to their bench as much, but all their players are dangerous. They obviously had a lot of reserves step up against us. Their depth makes them a much tougher team.

John Pearson

We knew they'd press. We didn't handle the ball as well as we wanted and dug ourselves a huge hole. Against Hilton Head Prep, you can't pull yourself back from that far. I thought we put ourselves in position to win.

Paul Lundberg

We knew they could shoot. We'd seen them down by 17 against North Attleboro and cut it to a point.

Chris Davis

We know what we're up against with them. I think our kids that ran into them head-to-head showed that we're not too bad at wrestling either.

Aleksander Kaasniewski

We know with all the certainty that Poles were among the oppressors and assassins.

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Alonzo Sledge

We knew they weren't going to go away. They came back from 22 points down at their Regional, so we told our guys not to relax. They did exactly what I thought they would do.

Sasa Cuic

We knew they were going to make a run; we knew it. Their run ended and we look up and they were only up by a few points. And that was all they got. And then we came out and played better.

Brian Curran

We knew they were going to come back. But when they came back, we stopped skating. We had to make a line and we didn't make a line.

Ryan Smith

We knew they were going to be good. But we came in expecting to win.

Maurice Cheeks

We know how these games are. We've been on the other side. We had games we thought we won, and the other team came back. San Antonio had the game won.

Karel Bruckner

We know he has started the season in excellent form with Hearts and we would like to take a closer look at Rudi in the international set-up.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Jamal Qureshi

We're in a world that faces serious problems with political stability in several key regions. People want to hold more supplies closer to home, and that's going to keep demand high for purchasing imported barrels.

Lorenzo Jones

We started out good, but we had a lapse in the second half. I was able to play everybody and it would have been closer if my big girl had not fouled out.

Jack Sturgeon

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we got our heads back into the game. It wasn't an 11-3 game. We're closer to them than 11-3, but there are some things we have to work on.

Dan Webster

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

Susan White

When you think about it, it makes sense, ... People are living closer together in the dorms.

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

Chris Colfer

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

Wes Newton

We knew they were coming, and we wanted to come because they are going to be our competition in the state finals.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Don Cooper

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

David Korten

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Michel Patini

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.

Kevin Roe

There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come.

Greg Haga

We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.

Tom Poti

We knew they were vulnerable, they had a tough loss the other night and we knew they had a new goalie. And with a team like that, you've got to jump on them early and that's what we did. We got the first goal and we just kept going from there.

Derackk Curtis

We knew they were going to come out strong early and we managed to stem the tide. D-Y is a well-coached veteran team that plays with a lot of emotion. Our goalie, Matt Ryan, was obviously a key factor for us.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Chris Renner

We struggled early on with our team trying to identify their roles. That is what the early season and midseason tournaments are for. The guys have done that.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Al Madrigal

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

Chris Hanson

We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.

Chris Cleave

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Dan Nobbs

We lacked on the sticks a little bit. I think there was somewhat of a welcome factor. This was one of the better teams we will face all year and I think some of the guys were kind of in shock instead of being aggressive.

DJ Qualls

My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else.

Dave Chappelle

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

David Sedaris

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Mark Thompson

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Sean Burke

We knew they would throw everything at us.

Bill Otte

We knew they wouldn't go away and they chipped away. It's a rivalry for a reason.

Jack Coit

We knew they would be tough inside; they have some physical players.

Randy Matthews

We knew they were working on a no-huddle offense. And, we've watched their films.

Mike Adras

We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they weren't going to go away.

Damarius Bilbo

We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.

Rick Carlisle

We knew they were going to make runs. We knew Wade was going to play big down the stretch. When that happens, we had to keep our poise and composure. We did that and made the plays we had to make to win.

Mike Gundy

We knew they were going to make mistakes. We knew they were going to make big plays. We didn't want them to think if they did something wrong they weren't going to get back in forever.

Randall Stallworth

We knew they were going to make a run. They were playing like that throughout the tournament.

Dan Campbell

We know if we can go up there and (win), then it pretty much knocks them out. But if we don't, then we give them new life, they're still in this thing.

Don Murphy

We felt, in our organization, that it was better than to go and knock down trees,

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

S. Hughes

The CPI took some of the sting out of the market, but it didn't knock out the implications of the PPI,

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Tony Hawk

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn't know any better. But I didn't have options then. People weren't knocking on my door.

Henry Johnson

Leadership requires talking about the right things and doing the right things, and sometimes you take your knocks when you do that.

Ken Rhoden

She was one of our main contributors and knocked in the winning run in the state championship game.

Vance Downs

On a different night, we knock down some of those open looks, and obviously it's a different game.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Virender Sehwag

We've won the series, but it doesn't mean we'll take the remaining three matches lightly.

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Sal Imbimbo

We have had some tough matches this year, but (the sectional tournament) is what it's all about. That's what everyone is pointing toward and trying to step up a notch with that in mind.

Nadia Petrova

She had me running around so much. She was playing so well out there. We always seem to have matches like these.

Mary Christensen

Six matches in one week ... that's a lot. We are so tired. I'm exhausted.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Joel Meisenheimer

I think a lot of them have played the back nine before, but it's not one we normally play as a team. This is one of the first matches where we've had our top six together.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Justin McNaull

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

Joe Zwilling

Now is the time for the schools to have the input, to tell us what's unique about their situation.

Clare Callahan

They have it in the schools over there.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Jerry Kelly

Just play well and the scores will come. I showed that today.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Amy Williams

It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Phil Mason

We would have been up by two scores had we scored on that drive.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Alan Alda

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.