Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Marcello Lippi

When he has resolved his problems, Cassano will return, ... Something may change. I'm not saying that because I know what it is but because the deadline is tomorrow.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Rene Fasel

The only deadline that exists comes from the International Olympic Committee, which wants each federation to hand in rosters by the end of January.

Horacio Gutierrez

Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights.

Chris Hill

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

Tony Dwyer

The Dec. 8 deadline -- it's a geopolitical concern.

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.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Steve Warren

We've been here long enough that the kids understand the importance of these games. Because of who we play from week to week you can't let the highs be too high and the lows be too low.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

Donald Selkin

We may need some new impetus to get past the highs we've hit this year.

Douglas Wood

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

Tim Heekin

We've been on a tear and it's just kind of flattening out today after hitting some near-term highs yesterday.

Pat Ryan

Look at my career. It's had its highs and lows. I've won everything and I've lost everything.

Castor Pang

Most H-shares have reached irrational highs so investors are now taking profit.

Khuram Chaudhry

The likelihood that oil hovers near the $59 mark is not a positive for markets because at that level investors are now looking at new highs for the commodity.

Tim Heekin

The market has been trying to hit these highs for some time, but we've been nearing them with less and less enthusiasm,

Charles Spurgeon

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Chris Avellone

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump.

Bertrand Russell

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

John Kinsey

We've seen that kind of roller-coaster ride before, and this is just another one of these.

Jim Bryant

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

Jim Clyburn

we're not going to let it ride this time.

Simeon Rice

We're just going to ride this ship, ride this wave. We accomplished one mission, we'll be setting out for many more.

Forrest Miller

We'd like to have him christen it, and have him take the first ride in it.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.