Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Smithwick

We want to push the ball every time we get it. We also play a tough man-to-man defense. It affects a lot of these teams.

John Carey

We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

George Parker

Whenever teachers don't receive materials they need in a timely manner, it affects how successfully they will be able to implement the new standards,

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

Jon Kitna

When you get to the playoffs, you know you're the only game going on and you know everybody is watching and you know the ramifications. You have to maintain an even keel. You can be down 10 or up 10, you can't let that affect you.

Ian Smith

We've spent a lot of time talking about the new hospital, but every day we're continuing to provide care in this hospital to huge numbers of patients, ... No matter how much we try to protect our patients, as long as we're struggling with those volumes it is going to affect patient care.

John Mitchell

We've seen the energy shock before, but the difference today is there isn't a lot of excess capacity anymore. The unknowns in countries like Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela have an immediate affect on oil prices. Without excess capacity, anything that takes production off line can spike prices.

Bill Polian

We have no details with respect to events surrounding the cause of the cut. As is our policy, our security department will conduct an investigation and report back promptly. As always, we will share the results of that investigation with appropriate league officials.

David Mills

Whenever we talk about the environment, we need to know what we're talking about and not cause people to fear,

John Moffitt

Whenever we'd run into another American, that was always cause for celebration.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Karl Smesko

We were trying to stop the guard penetration and not let them cause problems with the dribble. We also emphasized rebounding, getting on the boards.

Alan Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

Bjorn Hanson

We've seen ... substantial occupancy increases, which cause developers, lenders and others to have confidence that positive trends will continue.

Brent Wilkes

The fact that Latinos are underrepresented in the service causes us concern because the service is often a way to the middle class for many immigrants. If you don't have a lot of options, would you rather go into the service and get a middle-class career, or stay in the fields all these years?

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Steve Reynolds

We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,

Robert Brown

When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.

Richard Knight

Walking and talking is just a natural thing; it's social interaction.

Byron Katie

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Andy Nota

We did most of the work on the beach. We didn't intrude on the natural habitat.

Jane Austen

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Aretha Franklin

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

Ben Roethlisberger

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.