Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Uhrik

We want to take advantage of the opportunity. This is a chance to do for others, and to grow in relationship with God.

Dan Fridgen

We want to take advantage of the opportunity that we're playing at home for the last weekend of the regular season against two very good opponents. What better way to get tuned up for playoff hockey? I see this weekend as being no different than how we're going to have to play in the playoffs. We want to finish as high as we can. We don't know what opponent we'll have, but we don't want to be complacent. We want as many points as we can get out of the season.

John Thomas

We want to take advantage of the opportunity.

Stephanie Reichert

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

Ramona Cruz

We want to start the event a little earlier this year and take advantage of the warm weather.

Bruno Julliard

We want to see how we can take advantage of this power struggle that is now in our favor to garner new victories.

Andre Johnson

The other teams just seem to take advantage of their opportunities, and we don't. Once we get up on a team, we all take turns breaking down.

Jim Mitchel

The potential is there for him if he wants to take advantage of it. It just depends if he wants it or not.

Robert Borosage

The potential for him to be a leader of significant reform in the wake of this corrupt Congress is very great. We want the parties to fight over who has the best reform. It will be interesting to watch and see if he takes advantage of the opportunity.

Karl Rove

We strongly support Tom DeLay. He's a good man, a close ally of this administration.

Joschka Fischer

We have to go back to normal business with our most important ally, the United States, and with France -- the most important outside of Europe and the most important ally inside,

Pat Jones

We feel that we've lost an important ally in the dispute over traffic and density.

Radha Mitchell

Silent Hill is the scariest thing I've been in since a bed with Ally Sheedy.

Tim Holmes

She can do so many things with the ball, and scoring is only one of them. In fact, all of our players are so unselfish when it comes to getting points. Tiffany Daniels, who doesn't get to play much, passed up an open shot to feed her teammate Ally Hearn. That's just the way our girls play, which makes them a success, win or lose.

Robin Morgan

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Walid Muallem

If a close ally of Iran like Syria went to Iran and said, 'This peace is in our interest,' what do you think would they do? I can tell you they have never opposed any of our peace moves since 1991.

Taha Ramadan

the deceitful proposal that America and its ally Britain are trying to pass in the U.N. Security Council not only targets Iraq, but also other Arab countries and friendly countries that have trade and economic ties with Iraq.

Mitt Romney

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Scott Smith

We want to stay away from penalties and turnovers and not give up big plays on defense. It's going to come down to execution and effort.

David Orton

We are pleased with our overall progress in the quarter and remain intensely focused on technology leadership and operational execution.

Nick Saban

We have to get the kind of execution at quarterback that will give it to them.

Tim Parmeter

When we do what we're supposed to do, and we have execution, we're going to be hard to stop.

Anton Chekhov

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Roy Halladay

The pitches they hit weren't very good pitches. To me, that's not a pitch-selection thing. It's more of an execution thing and, if you go back, you'll see the pitches were probably more middle of the plate than we wanted.

Dana Delany

There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it has to with the timing,

Kirk Salvo

Mack has tremendous technique and flawless execution. What is most impressive about Mack is that he's always in great position, which is an indication he'll be an outstanding collegiate wrestler.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Tom Wlaschiha

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Gunter Blobel

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.

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.

Lauren Miller

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Jim McKelvey

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Bob Goodenow

I feel very strongly that we've done our share. Frankly, we're still waiting for our partner to step up.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

Hans Christian Andersen

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

R. C. Sproul

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Sebastian Faulks

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Jean Lacordaire

All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.

Marcus Aurelius

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Victor Hugo

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Douglas Coupland

I've got 911 on speed dial.