Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have sent most of our ships to sea and are refueling in only very selected ports and with the use of tankers at sea because we are still not confident that we have complete ability to protect those ships in situations like this, ... By moving them out to sea, we do achieve that higher degree of the protection.

This sends such a message that we should think ability before disability.

This will give us the ability to build on the success we already have in the area.

This was a huge step forward for our program. We had a great tournament ,and the icing on the cake was our ability to hit five balls in play on a very demanding and challenging 18th hole while the two other teams we were trailing only hit one ball in play combined.

La'Roi Glover

The Panthers have the ability the run the football, and they have the best front four in the league.

The PAN party higher-ups, the senior officials and elected officials, don't trust him very much. They don't see him as ideologically reliable to the core values of the PAN. He's seen as a maverick. But clearly, if he gets stuck or tied up in those conflicts, that would impact on his ability to govern.

This really starts to talk about the ability to build relationships with consumers. It's no longer just a broad blast of emails that are going out, but it really becomes more focused on what you're trying to market to particular consumers or segments of your install base. And it really is focused on two-way communication. So if the consumer comes back to the Web site and expresses interest in certain products by looking at those, you want to re-market to those customers regarding the products that they expressed interest in.

This really leaves one concerned about the ability of us as a society to manage chronic conditions that ultimately become very costly to families and to the health system.

This shows an ability for Qantas to interact with a partially owned entity that has a network offering that is complementary to what Qantas offers, operated under a brand that Qantas supports.

The phones themselves have evolved and our ability to detect what type of device is much more sophisticated. That combination alone helps quite a bit. Today we can serve a very specific version of the application.

Aimee Bender

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

We've been playing seven or eight great holes and one total blow-up hole kind of kills your ability to score well. I think that's been kind of the thing hurting us all season.

We've been playing good basketball the whole tournament. We're not the powerhouse most teams are. We just get the most out of our ability and we never give up.

We see the way that we did it as a great advantage because we see ourselves as strategically positioned with our customers in the Southeast. They have a level of trust in us and with this Sprint agreement, we are giving them the ability to connect to their offices outside the Southeast with the kind of network they are used to at home.

Darrell Jackson

We see that a lot in practice. He's got a lot of athletic ability. He's lightning quick, strong. He's just an athlete. For him to be able to go out and do that after just a couple routes at practice, that was really, really, really, really big.

We're thrilled for Jamie to have found a school that is a great fit for her both academically and athletically. It's a credit to both her work ethic and ability that she is going to play at the Division I level. Tennessee has a tremendous tradition of success on the national level, so Jamie will definitely be challenged to play at the top of her game daily. That can only make her an even better collegiate player.

Bill Peterson

We're tapping John Butte's considerable expertise in broadcast television management to help guide and strengthen our company's legacy station. In his roles as news director and acting general manager at WEWS, John has clearly demonstrated his ability to motivate journalistic excellence and solid financial performance. We're fortunate to have someone with John's impressive background leading the station that bears the initials of our company's founder.

Jeff Green

We've been looking for ways to mitigate our costs everywhere, not just in Denver. This gives us the ability to cut back on the debt associated with the automated baggage system.

The government should also be constantly reviewing and reforming the tax system to improve Australia's ability to compete.

The government's ability to fight back may be weakened.

Tom Tancredo

The government of Mexico is a co-conspirator in the smuggling of immigrants. This is how we reward them, with helicopters and ways to tap phones? . . . Somebody just has a lot more trust than they should have in Mexico's ability to be a good neighbor.

Eliot Spitzer

The great advantage of the Internet is that it helps consumers compare products and prices, ... Our action in this case helps ensure that consumers will have the ability to do just that.

Steve Schmidt

The grant is basically to increase their ability to increase patrols for alcohol-related offenses.

Aaron Schock

Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.

Anne Hathaway

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they're so good, and we're all trying to get the same parts.

Blake Lively

I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

Brian Tee

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

Bethany McLean

The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.

John Ortberg

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

John Shelby Spong

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

Heather Graham

Trans fat has kind of lurked in our foods. Now, the new labeling gives people the ability to make healthier choices.