Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w

Jamie Dixon

We're not near where we need to be defensively. We need to make significant progress there, but we have the ability to do it.

We think this event has the ability to bring people from outside of the area. Thomas Hart Benton and the work he did is very popular right now, so we saw the momentum.

We think they're positioned very well to compete with the satellite TV folks and the regional bell operating companies. Their competitive position is based on their ability to offer the triple play.

We think these messages are at odds with the comments normally made to investors regarding future oil prices and the ability of producers to meet demand, and we wonder if perhaps those messages are actually a better indicator of the companies' thinking.

Leon Wieseltier

Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery.

Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is nature's characteristic ability to naturally select species not the most perfect decision maker we humans have access to on this issue? Just as we expect human children to respect their human elders, let us humans collectively respect our significant elder--Nature.

Sumner Redstone

We've delivered on our promises and greatly enhanced shareholder value. This move reflects our optimism in the company's ability to sustain its momentum in 1999 and beyond.

We've built four houses, so we have the ability to do it right.

Theo Epstein

You have to believe in every aspect of the job and the organization and your ability to stay and do the job the right way, with your whole heart and your whole soul. And in the end, it just wasn't the right fit.

This year, we have so many weapons offensively that we're only going to be as good as our ability to spread the ball around. In order to run the ball, we need to throw better. We need to hit a couple more of those deep balls.

We also introduced, and this is very appealing to our channel partners, the ability to deploy and use 3Com's legacy fat APs,

Dom Starsia

To run the field, to ride, to push and control the tempo of a game requires midfielders who are athletic and unselfish. This year's unit has the ability to consistently demonstrate those characteristics.

James Jones

We didn't get to the free throw line. And if you don't get to the free throw line, that hurts your ability to put points on the board.

Bill Cowher

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here. You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

Bill Cowher

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here, ... You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

We had a choice of letting it happen to us or trying to manage it, ... When we let it happen to us, our ability to react as well as we would like financially is compromised.

We believe that any decision about a union should be made in a neutral environment, and we feel that card-check neutrality has been proven to have the ability to make the process fair.

Hector Ruiz

We believe that AMD's long-term success depends on our ability to help China grow its information technology business, and we are demonstrating this belief by sharing this important technology with our valued partners in China,

We believe people will benefit from the ability to not just view a page, but to easily act on that data in contextually relevant ways, both online in the search experience and in the applications they are using.

We believe our offer is well above market. Our offer reflects the business realities we face and recognizes the contribution of our employees with the ability for us to win new business. That's how you secure the long-term future of our employees and our company.

We are so close to putting it all together and I still believe in the talent on this team and our ability to get it done against anyone. We have all the components but really need to start playing smarter, understanding certain situations better and becoming more proficient at playing to our strengths.

This will really challenge our ability to hold runners. Our pitchers are going to need to change their looks and control the base runners.

We believe our ability to successfully reverse this volume erosion is limited by the continuing overhang of government litigation and investigation issues. The resolution of these issues remains among our highest priorities.

We believe in this model's ability to pass on great savings to the customer. When it does work, it works incredibly efficiently.

Kenneth Bacon

We believe hitting their (Serb) supplies -- their fuel and ammo supplies -- will have a demoralizing impact as well as a debilitating impact on their ability to operate. But I can't give you a firm estimate of how long it will take for their sources to dry up.

Brian Wilson

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

Brian Krzanich

A lot of the really good features of Windows 10 - things like Windows 10 Hello, where you have facial log in and you don't have to use all your passwords, the Start screen and your ability to go through that, the touch usages of gaming, as the new games come to this product - those are going to run with PCs that have the latest features.

Indra Nooyi

BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

Damien Hirst

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

Mickey Matthews

When people are loading up on us, we have to have the ability to throw the ball. We cant let people put eight or nine people in the box and expect to run the ball.

We will go to Sydney a far stronger outfit. Our bounce-back ability is brilliant. We will come back with a few new strategies.

Henry Hyde

We will focus both on the scandal and on the ability of the U.N. to investigate itself,