Famous Quotes & Sayings

We came out with the game plan to go inside and have defensive intensity. And about midway through the second quarter, we abandoned the game plan.

We are not the circus. It is important to make sure that the core elements of sport are respected before we abandon ourselves to the demands of show business.

The demolition of these vacant and abandoned buildings sends a clear message to all of our residents that Plainfield is on the move to become the Queen City once again,

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

John Ridley

The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

Robert Reich

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

She is an example of what we see everyday in southwest Florida, animals abandoned and neglected.

Most people really don't want to give up abandoned cars. Really, we don't take them away from them.

Trevor Manuel

I wasn't even the ham in the sandwich. I was just dragged out of the sandwich, abandoned by left and right!

S. Truett Cathy

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

Most analysts are on record with expectations of a decline in corn planting intentions and an increase in intentions for soybeans. The debate generally centers on the magnitude of the changes. Acreage of spring-planted crops, however, could deviate from intentions due to escalating spring wheat prices; potential for abandoned hard red winter wheat acreage to be replanted to other crops; changes, if any, in price relationships of spring-planted crops; and spring weather conditions.

Members of Congress who want to abandon this project are wrong to suggest that leaving nuclear waste next to communities such as ours is better than storing it at remote, militarily-secure Yucca Mountain.

Why weren't we contacted first when they abandoned their plans (to use the land)?

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

Paul Farmer

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

Jim Sensenbrenner is once again deciding to abandon his fellow Americans in their time of need. This proposal would simply allow those citizens wiped out by Hurricane Katrina to file for bankruptcy under the old law, making it easier for these families to get back on their feet after this disaster. Apparently, Congressman Sensenbrenner doesn't think we should lend a helping hand to these families.

John Paul II died as he always lived, animated by the indomitable courage of faith, abandoning himself to God and entrusting himself to holy Mary.

We are the cream of the crop. Our model has served us well, and there needs to be a strong reason for abandoning what has worked so well.

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.

We had hoped to return Mr. Stern's show to the air free from indecent content. Unfortunately, the FCC's latest action, combined with deafening silence from the Stern show on their future plans to comply with the law, leave us no choice but to abandon the program for good.

We had hoped to return Mr. Stern's show to the air free from indecent content, ... Unfortunately, the FCC's latest action, combined with deafening silence from the Stern show on their future plans to comply with the law, leave us no choice but to abandon the program for good.

We have clearly heard their message: Don't abandon us at this crucial time and risk a return to the bloody nightmare that we lived through for so many years.

Michael McDowell

will provide a greater test over a longer period of the extent to which the Provisional movement (Sinn Fein and the IRA) has abandoned criminality in all its forms.

When it comes to major issues on a statewide or national level, the Democrats in these small counties probably feel abandoned by the Democrat Party. These are folks who go to church on Sunday morning and have strong conservative values. The Democrats on the state and federal levels don't relate to that.

Mark Regev

We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

That may be good because we may be able to abandon some of those lower areas.

This government's budget is barely six months old and it's already been blown to smithereens, ... The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse.

Ehud Barak

This government is abandoning the peace policy it has signed,

Moshe Dayan

Arabs cross to collect the grain that they left in the abandoned villages and we set mines for them and they go back without an arm or a leg.

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

As an overall philosophy, you want to come out in the most robust market as possible and this ain't it. The public has finally figured out that they shouldn't abandon the companies that make up the bulk of the economy.

Lesley Stahl

Artie is as engrained in the 6O Minutes DNA as anyone. As our director, Artie, with his exquisite taste, created the look of the show, one we never abandoned in all our years on the air.