Famous Quotes & Sayings

When people make a gift to us or pay us their tuition, or when tax dollars are appropriated to us, those who pay that money or give us that donation can rest assured that this institution is going to do everything it can to make sure their dollars will accomplish what they intended for them to accomplish -- and nothing else,

We believe in priority access, but we want to do it in a way that offers us maximum flexibility to accomplish the endgame. We are working with the government, including the White House, for a short-term solution, and expect to have a system up in Washington within 60 days.

Orison Swett Marden

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

W. S. Gilbert

We owned it in a business trust, which prevented us from doing some development, and we also thought the timing was right in terms of interest. We were very pleased with the marketing effort, the exposure, the number of credible offers and the way everyone worked together to accomplish the closing before the end of the year.

J. C. Watts

Winning's a difficult thing to start for a program that has lost a lot in recent years. It's hard to break tradition and hopefully we'll accomplish that soon. We need to bring our practice ethics to the game.

Financially, we did a good job and we were able to accomplish a lot of improvements.

First half, we didn't really accomplish what we wanted to, especially on offense.

Finding a company who was even willing to talk to us about the possibility was more difficult than we anticipated. Finally, American Sentry Guard seemed to have both the interest and required technical staff necessary to accomplish what we wanted to do.

Alice Waters

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Barack Obama

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

We'll practice that day. We may get together (again) in the summer before the game and try to accomplish some things.

Ned Yost

Those guys should be proud, for what they had to do to accomplish that. They started out with a great team, a very talented group of kids. By the end, we had taken all their best players, and they still persevered through it and found ways to win a championship.

Scott Ritter

You know we can't expect the inspectors to accomplish anything in a country the size of Iraq.

When I received the platinum record for 'Coyote Ugly,' I sent it to James because if it wasn't for him, none of this would have happened, ... So I gave him my first one and said, 'Hey, this was for you and I and what we did.' It was just wonderful. It's exciting to see your names as the credits roll by because you're from El Paso and you never think you're going to accomplish so much. I lived in New York for years, and I still had that mentality.

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

Santana Moss

Unless you stay on top of yourself, you're never really going to accomplish anything.

I would like you to know that she is greatly distressed over Danny's situation. She hopes that you will come to understand that keeping Danny will not alter U.S. Government policy or accomplish your goals.

I would like you to know that she is greatly distressed over Danny's situation, ... She hopes that you will come to understand that keeping Danny will not alter U.S. Government policy or accomplish your goals.

While the engine burn abort was unfortunate, we still expect to accomplish the rendezvous objectives, ... We expect that the later rendezvous date will not diminish the overall science return.

Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Robert Collier

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

We had two good games this weekend and we have two games left. I'm pleased overall with the spring we've had and the progress the team has made toward what we want to accomplish in the fall with our new system. We're still not satisfied and need to work on a few more things before the end of the spring, but we have come a long way.

We have a good number of girls out. We have some girls who took a year off and now are back to help the team accomplish goals we have set for the year. We are expecting a good season.

We have a lot of pride in what we're trying to accomplish and it's nice when other people notice.

We've had four guys now accomplish it. That shows our history and our tradition, but we want to move forward with it.

Doug Wilson

We have more things to accomplish and more challenges ahead of us. We're building this to be a championship team and nothing less. You don't get ahead of yourself in any of that. I just know that I believe in these players. I believe in them strongly and that's why we gave them the opportunities.

We're working every avenue to do whatever we can to get things back in order. We're going to accomplish the mission of getting the water out of the city.

We pulled through after a really rough little stretch (in December) and played some great basketball. But in the broad scheme of things, people didn't think we could accomplish this much. We played really well.

Jeff Jones

We played hard. I'm not upset with our effort, but when you play hard, you've got to accomplish certain things. There are certain things that win games.

We have to remember what it is we're trying to accomplish sometimes.