Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Shanahan

. . . But we're trying to win Super Bowls, not just playoff games. Obviously, we'd like to win our division, have home-field advantage . . . we're going to keep on working and, hopefully, we can get over the hump.

Carlos Castaneda

But we just had to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of amending our Constitution.

Rubin Carter

But we did have a conversation or two about advantages and disadvantages.

But they would be unwise just to shoo the coalition out, because they cannot handle the army and the police areas on their own it would give too much advantage to the people perpetrating violence.

but there ain't a lot of folks who'll drop what they're doing to take advantage of a cheap fare in such a market.

But the airline might file sooner, maybe in the next couple of months, to take advantage of the more lenient bankruptcy laws.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.

John Howard

Businesses need almost exclusively year-to-year planning cycles. It would be impossible for anybody to take true advantage of any lower-cost power program if it didn't exist for the entire year.

Businesses are interested in taking advantage of mobility; they understand it offers them a number of ways to help improve employee productivity.

Daniel Alfredsson

Buffalo's goaltending wasn't the best they had, and we took advantage of that. When you get off on the wrong foot, it's tough to get back, and I think that's what we did to their goalies.

Daniel Alfredsson

Buffalo's goaltending wasn't the best they had, and we took advantage of that, ... When you get off on the wrong foot, it's tough to get back, and I think that's what we did to their goalies.

Bryan kept us in the game by pitching to advantage counts.

Business is excellent and we want to grow the company to take advantage of the sales opportunities that are coming our way,

Business has been good, but gaming is very competitive, very capital-intensive, very dynamic. This is about maintaining our competitive advantage and positioning the business for longtime success. We want to become a destination resort.

Business firms are still unwilling to take advantage of this low rate structure. The failure to borrow could be a hint that business planners do not foresee a significant resurgence in the economy over the quarters to come.

But complications are good. It may not be good for the player who winds up not playing, but it's an advantage for the team as a whole.

But certainly we are not forging ahead with the smelter on the basis that we have some global competitive advantage in capital or labor,

But because traders tend to trade so frequently, those aren't major disadvantages, ... And the advantage of being able to deduct all of your losses is very attractive.

(Battle and Brinkley) feed off each other. We had a size advantage inside, so we had to take advantage of it.

Because of the AMT, some people are not able to take advantage of the tax cuts that Bush made available.

George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Barring injury, barring something crazy happening, I definitely think we're a playoff team. I think we're a team that certainly has a good chance to get home-court advantage in the first round.

Jennifer Smith

Barrier free is becoming a large industry in and of itself. There are nothing but advantages for it.

China, with its low cost of labor, has a comparative advantage in shoe manufacturing.

China's real advantage over India is leadership and vision.

China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural citizens in the coming years.

Chris stepped and took full advantage of the opportunity he had in the fourth. We needed someone to play tough inside for us, and he came through in a big way.

Nigel Clough

Chris Hall is one of the last players to agree a contract. That was one of the advantages of the Manchester United game. We were able to get the players we wanted to keep sorted out with contracts early.

I'm a strong believer in an open venue. I think it is a big advantage to have some of the other teams come up to our nice, warm Minnesota winters, so they can enjoy playing football up where it hurts, a la Green Bay.

I look like a mailman, like the average Joe. I roll up my shorts, I comb my hair funny. I pull my socks over my ankle brace. And that's all an advantage for me. I can feel it before the game. I can see the way guys look at me on the court. I may not look pretty but I get the job done.

Elena Dementieva

I lost a lot of points and gave her a big advantage. It's not my favorite shot to do. I'm trying to get better.

My balls were moving, I had life on the fastball, and I was jamming them pretty much for most of the night. A couple of pitches they took advantage of, and that wasn't even the home runs. Those were just singles.

My backhand fell apart and he really took advantage of it. He just picked on my weakness, and that's what he's supposed to do.