Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We need audiences. Audiences are essential to the students' learning experience -- how to play to an audience and how different they are. Theater is meant to be performed. We are asking (audiences) to come on a journey with us (while) understanding that we are trying to accomplish a great deal.

We want to make sure we are using the right media and that the message is on target for what we are trying to accomplish in helping people recognize the quality of healthcare right here in Onslow County.

We made a lot of planning during the early period and now we are in a more demanding stage of implementing the plans. We need more talents and assistance to help us accomplish the whole work.

Julia Roberts

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

William Clark

shows what can be accomplished when citizens and municipal and state governments all work together for a common goal. This grant wont accomplish everything we want to do on this project, but its an awfully good start.

Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.

Matt Williams

She's a great example for young people who want to accomplish something. She plays so much basketball, and that's how she's gotten better.

Most people were thinking, 'They'll be OK, but I don't know if they can accomplish what teams in years past have done. I think they were kind of on a mission because of that.

We have heard many constructive proposals; we will incorporate as many as we can in our new plan and still accomplish our needs of the business.

There are ways we can help renters who are paying more in rent than they would pay in a mortgage payment today, ... We have to find those ways to help people accomplish that dream.

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Lorne and about five of us were sitting in a group and talking about things they'd like to accomplish in their lives. Lorne said flying was one of his greatest wishes.

Many of them are students who have families, who work full-time jobs, and need to know how they can balance all the different realms of their lives and use the resources we can offer them in order for them to be successful and accomplish their goals in the timeframe they have set.

Many of the factors that can put our brain health at risk are things we can modify and control. This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers of sick and mentally declining older people, and reduce healthcare costs. To accomplish that, we need more research to show us which specific combinations of lifestyle choices, and also future therapies, will maintain our brain and emotional health.

Dennis Scott

Many people have asked me what will happen to the company now that Mel is gone. Mel's death does not cause a change in our operation or philosophy. Even though Mel owned the majority of the stock in Eel River Sawmills, there is a plan in place that will transfer the majority of the voting stock to the employees over time. The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation now owns Mel's shares. Eventually, some company shares owned by the Foundation will have to be sold to meet certain regulatory requirements. We have ample time to accomplish this.

Ariel Sharon

Sharon wants to maintain the current political status quo so as to accomplish his objectives out of the pullout from Gaza, including boosting settlement construction, and completing the apartheid, separation wall in the West Bank, particularly around the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Service with respect has become the foundation on which store loyalty stands. Women want bargains, to accomplish a lot in one trip, and interesting items, but if the level of service and respect is found wanting, none of that matters.

So I see a lot that we have to offer and a lot that we can do and accomplish but it has to be for 40 minutes.

David Morgan

She was so young, inexperienced and unlearned and yet she was able to accomplish these amazing things. The fact that she is a woman in those dark times of stupidity and arrogance brought innocence and feminine power to that period.

Matt Murphy

She's just able to accomplish tasks and whatever's in her way, she's able to break through it and get it done.

Edward Abbey

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

Atul Gawande

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

LeAnn Rimes

What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?

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.

Mark Twain

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

Mark Twain

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Virginia Hey

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.