Famous Quotes & Sayings

My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.

Rochelle Aytes

My first big break was 'White Chicks.' I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn't feel like I was ready for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I'm given with great appreciation.

Nobody gave up. That's the difference between this team and teams from the past. We are not going to accept 'no.' We did not play anywhere near our best game. The defense played their butts off for the entire night against a very good offense, and we struggled a little bit. We covered for each other, and that's what a team does.

Neither the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina nor the international community will accept such blackmail,

Abdulsalami Abubakar

One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome of the investigation and he has agreed to that.

One of the advantages of filing electronically is greater accuracy. The system won't accept a return if there is an error on it and consequently the error rate on e-filed returns is less than 1 percent.

One in particular appeals to me and I wanted to be free to accept that if the offer comes through,

One of the attractions of the pig is the widespread acceptance that it is regarded as ethically proper to rear and then kill large numbers of pigs for food.

One of many reasons why some people today are very difficult to accept the existence of advanced technology in prehistory era is because they didn't realize that their minds have already been clouded by an unconscious presumption which states 'ancient people should be primitive, before gradually evolving into this modern era nowadays'. I call this as 'Toba Syndrome'.

One must view the government's acceptance of responsibility for the thefts as very important and we hope it will stand as a durable lesson for the future.

Anthony Browne

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

Arthur Rubinstein

Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Of course it will not be automatic procedure, ... It will be based on concrete and specific requirements by Iraqi authorities, of course. So that is why I feel that we should come to a solution which is acceptable to everybody.

Of course, it's not acceptable to have any problem. We're working to resolve these problems as quickly as possible.

Of course, I liked it, but it was weird. With the Winona kids, I didn't make that big of an impact. Here I was, but it was up to them if I was on the team and if they were going to accept me.

No one is giving up, but it is the acceptance that the actual real chances of finding someone alive are almost nil.

No one knows when Francine Busby became an expert on port security. What we do know is that Busby has accepted money and support from some far-left, anti-war groups that don't exactly emphasize toughness when it comes to dealing with terrorists.

No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitude occur in our system. Unfortunately, the reality is that they do.

Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult to accept if you were a victim or believe in the system because there is supposed to be some finality,

Online usability of financial disclosures is essential for investors to easily stay informed about their investments in public company securities, particularly as companies begin to replace printed reports with Web versions. Yet the vast majority of these mega-cap companies are failing to meet an acceptable usability standard.

Martin King

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Poul Anderson

My current project is science fiction, really ambitious I think. But again, it's a matter, to some extent, of what you can do, accepting limitations.

My experience was to the contrary, ... He would not accept all our analysis without skepticism and believed we were better on some subjects than others. But those are the characteristics of a good customer.

My dorm is way too chaotic to work in. It would make my life a lot easier if Snell would stay open for a few more hours. Boston University actually accepted me last year. I'm sure that if I'd gone there the library hours would be a better fit for me. It would just be a lot easier to get my work done.

Must we accept that the only alternatives are to either incrementally improve our current patchwork of identification documents, drivers licenses, Social Security cards and the like, or alternatively, move to some centralized federal data bases that aggregate all sorts of privacy-sensitive information,

Dhirubhai Ambani

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

My advice to him after consulting other officials is that he should not accept the appointment.

More and more urban families are employing children to work in their homes. It is disappointing that these people, who have high levels of education and good incomes, do not recognize this as something that is not acceptable in modern society.

Jan Egeland

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

Money damages can get the job done. Beyond that, nothing further needs to be done. Money damages are a completely acceptable solution in this case.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

Bill Belichick

My father was always just part of the team. He willingly accepted whatever responsibility he was given, whether it was coaching the linebackers or the junior varsity.

My dad has always told me to accept who you are. I'm sure people said stuff, but it never mattered.