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.

The idea is to export acts of terror.

Ariel Sharon

The horrible pictures we saw here today of these murderous acts by the Palestinians are stronger than any words. This terrible act -- the continuation of the Palestinian terrorism -- it is this terrorism that we have to fight, and that is what we shall do.

Shelley Berkley

The House resolution I voted in favor of today did not go far enough in condemning the barbaric and dehumanizing acts that have been reported in Iraq. Rather than relying solely on the Department of Defense to investigate these incidents, I would have preferred that Congress authorize a full-scale joint inquiry.

The growth in online advertising is showing no sign of slowing down. The internet is an exceptional medium in that it now acts as a source of entertainment, information and communication for the majority of the UK population. Advertisers are realising this, and allocating their budgets accordingly.

Johnny Rivers

A lot of young artists don't realize that it is a business. But the acts who survive over the years are the ones who take care of the business end of performing. Mick Jagger does it, so does Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan. They know how to sell and promote themselves and their music. They understand the financial end of this business.

Sigmund Freud

And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

All those who are propelled to do these acts must stop or surrender because it would be better for them and their salvation. There is no crime more heinous than this.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages

All the user has to do is plug in an optional headset, which acts as the FM antennae. Then they can tune digital stations right on-screen.

John Ashcroft

The magnitude and nature of these attacks -- the coordination, the sophistication of these attacks -- indicate to me that they are not sort of random acts by people who are just angry. These are long, prolonged, planned activities.

Aristotle

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Shirley Temple

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

John Ashcroft

These heinous acts of violence are an assault on the security of our nation. They are an assault on the security and the freedom of every American citizen, ... We will not tolerate such acts.

Along with free speech, with that type of freedom of expression, comes responsibilities. And we would condemn any acts of violence that might be associated with this issue." ()

Paulo Freire

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

James Hill

Any loss of life is regrettable, but we will simply not tolerate acts of violence against our multinational forces or innocent Haitians,

An element of the general strategy employed by the organizers of the terrorist acts was to unleash a wide information and propaganda attack against Uzbekistan involving international human rights organizations.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

John Ashcroft

as a delaying tactic to try to shield the details of unofficial acts having nothing to do with national security, but everything to do with Mr. Clinton's personal legal problems.

Doug Williams

Arson isn't usually done with intent of committing arson, ... but to conceal other acts of criminal behavior.

Anyone who is considering carrying out such threats should bear in mind the U.S. government's determination to bring to justice anyone who commits acts of terrorism against U.S. citizens anywhere in the world.

Samuel Alexander

Practical acts are such as, through the medium of our bodily movements, alter the object or its relation to ourselves or to other subjects.

Jimmy Rollins

Same guy. He acts like he's shy and humble: 'I'm just looking to make the team.' I've seen an All-Star be in Triple-A the next year, but not the rookie of the year!