Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

Nancy Kress

How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

Kevin VanDam

We are like a second family; we spend so much time in the same places. It helps to have friends out there to accomplish anything from things as simple as going out to dinner and picking up laundry to telling each other where the best ramps are or even where to get a fishing license. That's when you look to your team: for those non-fishing-related things.

Deval Patrick

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Kurt Huber

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

We're not sure what the state is going to do, they can meet back in the legislative session in the winter and pass mandates that we have to be able to absorb, its going to take a little time to accomplish what we want here

Wendy Kopp

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Ezra Taft Benson

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ellen Key

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Adam Gopnik

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we possess.

Ramez Naam

Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

The Defense Business Board suggested that we find innovative ways to accomplish the (military) mail function.

James Hall

The debris fields are as dangerous as any we have dealt with in NTSB experience, so we are going to try to accomplish this task with these remote vehicles,

Sunil Mittal

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

Tommy Caldwell

The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

John Garfield

When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

Right now is the time we all need to come together and be partners to accomplish this task as we move forward if we don't have these homes the soldiers that are projected to be up here they won't be able to come up here till the homes are available.

Clint Hurdle

Plus, to challenge him. We got to remember what we're trying to accomplish over here, regardless of what the other team's trying to accomplish. He had some adversity and I thought he bounced back pretty well through it all.

NIPC operates in a milieu of federal agencies and for-profit entities that feel the NIPC threatens their resources or authorities. Many of those upon whom the NIPC relies to accomplish its mission might prefer that the NIPC, especially housed in the FBI, not succeed.

Guillermo Diaz

On the road it's tougher to win. It's going to be a long trip, but we've got to stay focused and avoid being mentally tired. We're playing for something. We want to accomplish something different.

On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.

On the court I'm really dedicated. Once I put my mind to something I don't stop until I accomplish it. My dad was really strict with this when I was younger and I hated it then, but it's starting to make a little bit of sense.

Mrs. Eckert was a strong force in my life. She helped to develop in me a strong work ethic. She was a demanding teacher, but I didn't mind doing what she assigned. She taught her students to work hard and to accomplish whatever they set out to do, in spite of the obstacles. She taught us to never back down when we knew what we were doing or saying was right. She was very much a people person - she didn't forget anyone.

Moving the LSU game to Sept. 16 allowed us to accomplish two goals. First, we are able to avoid playing five consecutive conference games in the middle of the schedule. Secondly, it allowed us to have our first SEC home game in September instead of the first weekend in October.

Cesar Millan

Mother Nature always wants to be balanced. So there's no age where they don't want to return back to normal. I have worked with dogs that are 11 years old, 13 years old, which you witness in the show. I worked with a dog that was 13 years old that was extremely territorial to her food. And I was able to accomplish a calm, submissive state, which is allowing for you to create rules, boundaries and limitations. The mind backs away from the food. So in their world, they are always ready to balance. It's the human who fights it.

Sylvia Fowles

Me and other teammates were talking about it some days ago. That's our goal, to send (Augustus) out with a win. If we don't accomplish that, nothing else is going to matter.

Erik Larson

My job is to ... sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and erase the barriers and increase the strength so they can accomplish their goals.

One of the things we wanted to accomplish at district was to be able to compete with King's, and I feel we accomplished that.

One who works assiduously and wholeheartedly without bothering about the results shall definitely accomplish his tasks.