Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Hakim

Life is not about getting the easy in. Things happen in life for a reason. What makes you confident is knowledge and getting an education.

Julie Matheny

Mac and Kelsey, they can stroke it pretty well. They're very confident shooters, as any good shooter should be.

Cory Lidle

Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 in their last five. We're confident that we can do our part. But we're depending on another team to step up.

Rosabeth Kanter

Leaders deliver confidence, that's what they do. They make decisions, they set strategy, they do all the technical stuff, but they also have to make people feel confident that their efforts will pay off.

Brad Stuart

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

Peter Taylor

Leroy is very, very dangerous in the penalty area, and he knows how to take a goal. He is a confident boy.

Brian Finneran

Matt's been confident since he showed up here, he's had control of the huddle, in practice, in training camp. In the games he's played in, he's always been confident in his ability.

Matt Hasselbeck

No disrespect at all, ... but we expected to win this game. I've been on teams and gone in places where I'm not sure everyone felt that way. We're more confident than we've ever been.

Dorothy Moore

No one can guarantee me anything. I am much older and much sicker than I was when I had the first transplant, but I am confident in my doctors and confident that I will find a donor.

William Lloyd Garrison

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

Kyle MacLachlan

I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.

Tommy Thompson

All of us stand today at the precipice of a new era, where science holds the promise of curing the most devastating diseases,

Kurt Fuller

I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.

Kelley Heck

It's time to stop wasting time and get to work on curing these diseases.

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.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Ellis Rubin

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Don Seymour

John Boehner has ties to K Street, but they're ethical ones.

Peter Butler

I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,

Andrew McLaughlin

We take our ethical and moral issues super-seriously. As an information company, freedom of speech and expression are fundamental to our purpose.

Kelly McBride

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

Rob Enderle

We're right now at the forefront of another major change.

Bruce Dressel

We've always been at the forefront of trying to deploy this kind of stuff.

David Scharf

I think today's announcement was not a major catalyst. Even though the headline reads very well, it probably had not been on the forefront of the minds of investors as a real issue.

Mike Crosthwaite

I don't think people realize the role that La Costa played in the history of the PGA Tour. It really was at the forefront of professional golf being a venue and what that offered.

Michael Fitzpatrick

While Iran seems to be going back and forth on the use of oil as a political weapon, that issue will probably remain in the forefront for the near term, at least.

Terry Jicinsky

This speaks very well of Las Vegas. It shows Las Vegas remains in the forefront of people's minds.

Paula Scalingi

The Puget Sound region is at the forefront of the nation when it comes to looking at the needs.

Alan Greenspan

The United States has been in the forefront of the postwar opening up of international markets, much to our, and the rest of the world's, benefit, ... It would be a great tragedy were that process reversed.

Sherrod Brown

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

John Gibbons

If the Yanks don't win the division, they'll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

William Kingdon Clifford

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Betsy Ross

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Ron Pollack

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

Richard Boucher

Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

M. Thompson

Now we really are going to Disneyland. I promised them if they won, we could go.

Charles R. Swindoll

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

Ehud Olmert

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Michael Cooper

If we had him, it's a different ballgame, I promise you that.

Michael Wynne

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Councilwoman Sanchez

We promised you a one-stop, streamlined process. We have not been able to do that for you.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Tom Brady

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Justin Trudeau

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Marshawn Lynch

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Richard Montanari

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

Ron Cole

We haven't raised our rates in 11 years.

Hugo Papstein

We did some engineering stuff a year ago, and we are doing a little formatting and engineering research now.

Mike Daly

We've done our research and we think that it's OK.

John Henderson

We do all those things (site research) but not on such a formalized basis. Even responding to this (contract bid) was a project.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

Carol Licko

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Dennis Flanagan

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.