Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Duke

By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing with a poor table image, playing passively, or steaming at the table and maximizing the amount of time you spend playing your A-game. If you don't go beyond 30 big bets, you won't dump off large sums when you are playing poorly or are in a bad game. Loss limiting acts as an objective stop-gap.

His acts were cowardly, your honor. Jason was a coward.

Brad Jacobs

Caffeine acts as a stimulant in our body. For many people, ingesting caffeine results in a boost of energy. However, when the caffeine wears off, people often feel more fatigued than prior to ingesting the coffee.

Edward Kennedy

Before the Senate acts on John Roberts' new nomination, we should know even more about his record, and we should know whom the president intends to propose to nominate as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor.

certain acts but didn't commit any criminal acts.

Francis Bacon

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

Brian Jeroloman

Bryan throws harder in the ninth inning. Even when there's adversity out there, he acts like nothing is happening.

Ronnie Hawkins

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ... Keep the money in the country if you can. Canada has got the acts that can do the job in any vein.

They're the people that are likely to give random acts of kindness, like a hug. They don't get credit for that.

And these horrible acts almost always include terrible death and destruction,

An investigation continues but at this point there is no evidence of improper acts by any specific individual or slate of candidates. I urge all parties to the election process to refrain from accusations against other candidates.

Shaun O'Hara

Eli's not a scream-and-shout guy. He's a quiet, lead-by-example type. Won't say much, but when he does, it means something. He doesn't just talk to talk. He's just the most humble guy in the world. He's got the Manning name on his back and he's the No. 1 pick, which means he carries around all those expectations, but he never acts like anything but one of the guys in this locker room, never puts himself on any pedestal.

William Shakespeare

Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.

The resort will not commit illegal acts at the direction of government officials including those who have no jurisdiction in the matter.

There was a feeling of too many uncivil acts on campus. This was to inform the floors and have the floors take a stance that this is not acceptable.

Boris Yeltsin

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

Concerns about higher interest rates and the yield on the 10-year note may keep stocks on the south side again this morning. The higher yield ... acts as a tax on corporations, and it may also attract money to the bond markets from equities.

Hu Jintao

We should all oppose acts of encroachment on other countries' sovereignty, forceful interference in a country's internal affairs, and willful use or threat of military force,

Laura Bush

view the rise of democracy in Iraq as a powerful threat to their ambitions. In this, they are correct. They believe their acts against our coalition, against international aid workers and against innocent Iraqis will make us recoil and retreat. In this they are mistaken.

Donald Kennedy

We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.

Javier Solana

We are going to continue to damage as much as possible those units that are responsible for the criminal acts that have taken place in Kosovo,

Ben Lovett

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Ben Lovett

There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.

Very talented but very dedicated, accomplished musician. The way he goes about his music business, he looks at this as a business. He wants to become a professional player and he acts that way.

You have to see it to believe some of these trapeze acts they do. There's a school in China that trains them. They are very diligent.

Bob Geldof

You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That's what we're doing. If you can suggest to me British blacks acts that should be one, that sell in the same quantities as the bands we've got, fine.

You get better control and it acts more like a pancreas.

Pankaj Mishra

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Martha Reeves

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

We can now fine the property owners for acts committed by their tenants,

We cannot rely on individual acts of compassion.

You have to let these people think they're discovering the acts for themselves by word of mouth.

Craig Ferguson

We wanted something different this year. We're still keeping the musicianship, as opposed to it being a jam band fest. There's also a lot more standard bluegrass acts and we've never had an act like Bobby McFerrin before. You don't have to be a bluegrass artist - you just have to be a great artist to fit in at Telluride.