Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

Only an independent, nonpartisan commission investigation that commands full support from the executive and legislative branches will accomplish what we need: a thorough, comprehensive review which is only concerned with getting to the truth,

Charles M. Schwab

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

What we're going to really try to do is position ourselves as the enterprise play in the marketplace. The way we accomplish that is by having the binary compatibles inside the server version all the way to the desktop, so no matter where the customer wants to use Linux, they're going to have one common code base.

The only way you're going to accomplish that is through a mandated savings requirement of some sort, ... only a third who say they are able financially to save.

There are economic differences between the teams, so I'm sure some teams want to get playing because they're losing money by not playing. But I anticipate we will come out of this with a total resolve to fix the system, and we'll press forward in trying to accomplish that goal.

I believe the only team that can beat us is ourselves. We can accomplish some nice things, but if we get knocked out, it's because of ourselves.

Dave Wannstedt

I believe we have as good a coaching staff as anyone in college football. But we are always looking for ways to make ourselves more efficient and effective and these adjustments help us accomplish that.

Tony Stewart

I am really happy. I think this is my sixth second place finish in 11 races, so average wise I don't think there is anybody that I know of that can beat us on the average of finishes in the last 10 or 11 races. So we are pretty proud of what this team has been able to accomplish here. It's been an awesome day. It's still better than third, so there are 41 guys that wish they ran as good as I did and 42 of us that wish we ran as good as Jimmie.

Robert A. Heinlein

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

But excess funds from operations will not completely fund these critical parts of our mission. We continue to partner with foundations, benefactors, government and industry to accomplish mutual aims.

But beyond economic development, I want to change the feeling this community has about our government. It's sad and it must be changed. It saddens me that the people of this community feel the way they do about us. That is the first thing I would try to accomplish as mayor.

Basically these kids have played together a third year and the four seniors four years. This is third year Scott was part of the group. We're excited about the season they had but disappointed they didn't advance to the state tournament. They were successful in almost everything they did except that. I think they will be more focused then ever to accomplish that goal.

Basically if an idea sounds like a project that will help people with mental illness, and has no apparent downside, we find a way to accomplish our goal.

Because we built a relationship with IMG, we started to let our imaginations run wild as to what we can actually accomplish on the site working with them in collaboration. It just grew and grew to a point where we think it's phenomenal.

Chris is new here and he has some great ideas. We're hoping to build a core strength program that will help our kids to accomplish their goals.

Chris has helped us to accomplish all that we needed her to do and we thank her for her contributions to our success.

Ron Rivera

More than anything, you've got to accomplish something before you can be compared to someone else and we hadn't accomplished anything. It was flattering, but we really weren't where we needed to be yet.

Chris Jones

More than anything, the defensive intensity has been there. We've had a couple of games where it hasn't been there, but we learned a lesson from those games versus the ones it has been there. We've seen the difference in what we're able to accomplish when we play good defense.

Gianni Versace

My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accomplish what they want, and I think women want to look beautiful. (It's) less about jacket(s) and more about shirt(s) and about sweaters, about T-shirts and about freedom.

Jeremy Sisto

Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.

Jose Canseco

Maybe not accomplish the things I did, the freakish things I did, being 6'4

Mack Brown

Now we have a chance to accomplish the things that this game has cost us over the years.

Obviously, it's an exciting day for Michael and his family. And it's an exciting day for our organization. Michael has established himself as an All-Star and one of the premiere players in the league, and we feel that he's going to accomplish much more in the upcoming years.

Kyle Boller

Obviously, the confidence is there. But I've done the same thing each week, and that's continue to work. Maybe a couple of different things of going through the game plan. I did that this week, but really just the same stuff I've been doing. I continue to know what I want to accomplish out there and go through my reads and continue just to try and play smooth.

Matthew Dowd

Obviously, a lot of things that the administration had wanted to accomplish in 2005 and going into 2006 were tough.

Ron Francis

For me, that team was very special. We didn't win, but I don't think anybody gave us a chance to accomplish what we did. At the end of the day, it was a fantastic experience.

From my perspective, I'm not sure why a new organizational structure is needed to accomplish that.

Shani Davis

I have a lot of respect for Chad. I want to see Chad do well. We're competitive but it's not about being competitive with Chad right now. It's just going out there and doing the best that you can as an individual and being able to accomplish the dream that you set.

I have a lot to accomplish here still. I've got the indoor 400-meter championship under my belt, and I want to get the 200 championship under my belt. And I want to get some outdoor championships, the 200 or the 400, or maybe both. And I want to try to get the most All-American titles in school history.

I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot.

I have accomplished many things in life, but hardly any of that glorified God. But now that I've realized how wrong I was if I could help someone change their wicked ways maybe I could accomplish something for the better.