Famous Quotes & Sayings

What are you going to hold on to that for? It's counterproductive. There's another game (tonight) and we've got a lot of hockey left. You can't dwell on one game that you lost badly. If you do, you might as well pack it in now. We've got to look ahead and see what we can achieve here. You've just got to hold on to the good ones and get rid of the bad ones.

We challenged our agency to depict the life experiences of our frequent business travelers in a thoughtful and differentiated way. The quality and uniqueness of Dragon's innovative animation technique helps us to achieve our goal of making that special connection with our most valued customers.

This is what we hope to achieve with a college team. We want to enjoy training. We want to enjoy playing. It should be as well-rounded an experience as possible.

Fernando Alonso

This is the maximum I can achieve in my life and my career,

Brian Lara

This is the time to plan properly with the World Cup upon us and start to turn around the game in the Caribbean. West Indies cricket is at a stage where upward mobility is necessary and we have to all start working to achieve this.

This land was historically a wetland, ... Restoration of wetland characteristics and function of this land, as well as others in the South Florida ecosystem, will help to achieve restoration of the Indian River Lagoon and the greater Everglades ecosystem.

This is a waste of time for the state of Connecticut, which should be dealing with the worst achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

This is a victory for children and parents all across the country. Chief Judge Friedman's decision validates our partnership with states to close the achievement gap, hold schools accountable and to ensure all students are reading and doing math at grade-level by 2014.

Jay Feaster

This is a very tough thing for me. What bothers me most is that when we started to achieve success is when we stopped the revolving door. We had stability.

They postponed the date because they want to agree upon everything, so the whole constitution is delayed. Practically, it is probably not enough time, but we hope everybody works hard to achieve it.

They're playing much better now. We're trying to get in that top four and get that bye, so we really have to keep our composure and play as hard as we can to achieve our goal.

They're definitely considered people who believed in a cause and were willing to sacrifice themselves -- and, unfortunately, others -- to achieve that cause.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Clive over the last four years with England and would personally like to congratulate him on the success he has achieved in leading England to the World Cup and as the number one team in the world,

Brad Smith

In the software industry, things move quickly. We are a company with bold goals for innovative and pioneering technology. This plan provides us the space for the current and future talent who will help us achieve those goals.

In the short term, most of the Indian technology companies may look at innovation as a strategy to achieve higher growth.

Antonio Guterres

In these next 12 months what we'd like to see is the steady start of the return to the south, a peace agreement to be achieved in Darfur and the east, progressive improvement of security in Darfur and the start of the sustained return of refugees there,

Tom Udall

I have supported and voted for a variety of trade agreements in the past because increased trade, when achieved through a true level playing field, helps grow the economy and create jobs,

I hope that I have achieved what I set out to do and that is to make your days more memorable, a little more bareable, lighten your troubles, and fill your heart with love.

Steve Jobs

I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we've achieved together during the past three years. Over 1 billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.

I hope progress will be achieved in the fields of culture and education, particularly as this year has been dedicated for African languages.

I heard somewhere that maybe one or two people doubted the capacity of East Carolina University to achieve that great status. It's hard for me to believe that anyone would have doubted us, but I think the record speaks for itself.

I have to commend the parties. They really showed some vision and are working hard to achieve some good economy of scale. Both sides have worked hard and made some concessions.

I have to be very happy with the game. We set out to achieve one of our season's objectives by reaching the cup final, and produced another good performance.

Moshe Safdie

I prefer San Francisco to Los Angeles. I prefer New York to Philadelphia. Why? The kind of concentration that is achieved in them creates certain choices, an openness of society that is not possible in the lower-density environments.

Paul Otellini

In the third quarter, we achieved all-time records in company revenue and unit shipments across all of our major product lines.

Ayn Rand

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

Alexandra Robbins

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

International expansion continues to be a front-burner strategy for the company and these latest developments represent our commitment to that plan. We have experienced long-term success in the United States by executing on our business model, and we are pleased to see similar business goals now being achieved in the European Union.

In terms of working together efficiently and synergistically, we believe we have achieved a great deal, ... But to go to the next level, we think it is important to relocate some of our employees to Los Angeles.

In that respect, we can say that we have achieved our goal. We have half of Bosnia, more than 40 cities in Bosnia. We also have good land in each region, but in some regions we didn't get some.

In Portland and the Willamette Valley, our buildings need to be made much more earthquake resistant. California has had almost 100 years to prepare after the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Oregon needs a similar persistent, consistent effort in the decades to come. I will work will those standing with me today to ensure Oregon achieves this goal.

In people with highly advanced cancers, we saw about a quarter of them achieve what we call stable disease, meaning that the tumor no longer grew. There was no increase in tumor volume,