Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Summers

The president has set a principle: No bank with an unsatisfactory CRA rating could take advantage of any of the powers granted by this deregulation,

The presidency, whoever is in it, has real advantages in the struggle, but we may see that the Congress finally believes that the Bush administration has gone too far.

Chan Gailey

The pressure is more on the defense because you have a three-year starter standing back there at quarterback rather than a rookie. There's the pressure on the defense knowing he can take advantage of any little mistake.

Lynn Coady

We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.

Brian O'Connor

Those big-run innings are important to open up leads. We took advantage of our opportunities toward the end of the game and a couple of guys got clutch hits and we were able to have a four-run inning.

Those are two pretty tough teams to beat, and we wanted to do our job and were ready to take advantage of the situation if we needed to, which is what we did.

Those are opportunities you have to take advantage of. You've either got to put the ball in play or come up with the two-out hit.

Weapons were not carried and were hardly necessary when you had such an advantage in numbers. The violence took the form of beatings, kicks and stamping.

We are in serious discussions with (the 49ers) to take advantage of their rights." ()

Christian Horner

We are in a phase of restructuring and want to take advantage of every available day to prepare for our first year,

Bobby Bowden

We know it's going to be difficult. We know we're going to have to play better on the road because home-field advantage means something.

Jesse White

Unfortunately, whenever such tragedy strikes, there are those who attempt to take advantage of the situation and its victims ... I want to make sure investors and those who want to help victims of Katrina aren't throwing hard earned money away.

Unfortunately, we didn't make enough plays to win the game. We battled back and showed some resiliency; we took advantage of a couple of their mistakes and got back. But you have to get 27 outs in this game and we weren't able to do it.

You have telephone operators girding themselves to take on the cable operators, and at this point there's no way they can take advantage of scale unless they invest in their networks.

Ron Wilson

We were just way too casual the whole second period. We never worked hard enough to deserve anything the rest of the period. And they took advantage of every silly little mistake we made. We got what we deserved.

We were just taking advantage of what we had. We knew we were quicker than the guys they were putting on us, so we had to take advantage of that. It worked out just fine.

We were just taking advantage of open looks.

Joe Pavelski

We were just hanging on and we were just getting games given to us and we never took advantage of them.

Keith Andrews

We were just doing what we do. We want to create some bad passes and rush them. It may have been nerves, but we want to take advantage of that opportunity. We want to press, but we just needed to keep up that effort.

We were just a little too casual. Just a little too casual on defense, not quite boxing out enough, not quite challenging the shooter. And the other teams were taking advantage of it. We have the talent to play with these teams, but when we don't bring our best it's not like we have a big margin for error. We just came back and took care of the little things.

To hang another banner in this building would be nice. But, more importantly, we can secure home ice advantage through at least the first two rounds.

Thoughtful post-resume communication underscores the traits that companies are looking for. Being able to convey what they could bring to the position can give certain job seekers a significant advantage over less-proactive candidates.

We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't give a team like Central a five run advantage to start the game and expect to win.

Byron Scott

We didn't come out with any fire, any emotion or any intensity and they took advantage of it. We came out very lackadaisical. We just didn't play the second half the way we are capable of playing. We were soft and they did whatever they wanted.

We didn't shoot the ball well and California was more aggressive than we were; they took advantage of the opportunities we gave them. We had the lead in the fourth quarter, but we gave it right back to them.

We didn't see our guys quit, which is a good sign, but we have to take advantage of opportunities better than we did today. We've got a tough game Friday against Glenbrook North, so we'll see if our kids bounce back.

Martin Biron

We didn't really use that as bulletin board material. We mentioned it once at the start of the year but we knew what we had. We wanted to use the new rule interpretations to our advantage and we did that.

We didn't really take advantage on the boards like we should have but, hey, it's a nice victory. We have to work for everything we get and it's nice that at least we're not in the cellar of the league now.

Gary Green

We didn't really swing the bats that well. We took advantage of what they gave us. That's the whole point of the game. It'd have worse if they had done that and we didn't take advantage of it.

Braylon Edwards

When Gary made that interception, he let us know that we have to take advantage of our opportunity. This was our game to lose, not that this is a game in which we can win.

Jim Brown

We're not going to have the same home-course advantage that we usually do.

Niklas Zennstrom

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

Nikki Reed

I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.