Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Garner

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

Henri Bergson

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

Carol Moseley Braun

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

With due respect to the counties, it's hard to market 18 games against them a season,

With Derek, I've already tried everything, so I'm going to do the same thing. I don't have any particular plan with Jeter because any plan I've been trying, he's had success against me. What worse can happen?

While it's certainly an industry issue, we believe Ericsson is having a hard time competing in networks against competition. That appears to have led to a major shake up at the top,

While I play against some of the strongest athletes in the NFL, I know that off the field, the toughest players are the thousands of hospitalized children who are fighting for their lives each day. That's why I've made this commitment and why I'm asking everyone to join me in making a difference for these kids.

While improving consumer confidence probably suggests downside protection against a slump in spending, it does not suggest we will see spending take off. We still need a sustained improvement in the jobs market, including a significant decrease in unemployment with a solid increase in real wages.

Glenn Tilton

Without a coherent U.S. aviation policy that reverses the bias against airline size and removes the barriers that prevent us from constructive consolidation, U.S. carriers will be unable to compete on a global scale and we risk being marginalized,

With our talent level, against an Edwardsville we'd have to play a near-perfect game to win. We fit in pretty well with schools our size, but I think our kids understand the importance of playing against really good competition.

With our height we don't want to play too much of a half-court game against a bigger team. We don't know a lot about Sacramento Adventist so we've had to prepare for everything, which is a little frustrating. We're definitely not taking them lightly.

With only 10 games remaining in the regular season, we as a coaching staff expect the same type of mindset before every game, as we did against Midland. The mindset that we can't be beat.

With one track in the United States, we're at a distinct disadvantage when we go up against the rest of the world.

Without Michelle we needed to have flawless runs from everyone to stand a chance against North Andover. The conditions were inconsistent, wet-packed for the early racers and dry later in the afternoon.

Without ever seeing him except for this evening, he throws with the long arm and has pretty good velocity. I saw his stats and he was effective against us. He beat us with a pretty good fastball.

Annalee Newitz

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

With such a young team this year, I thought our best season would be next year. It's going to be a dogfight against Cairo (today). This region is so tough that, on any given night, any team can beat anybody. I think this is one of the top regions in the state.

We need to continue that against Inverness this weekend and then in February because it is going to be a massive month. We are playing well at the moment and it's fantastic that all the strikers are enjoying good form.

We need to come out the first half of district with a 3-2 record. We had a let down against SHS, but we need to regroup.

We need to clean that up. You just can't do that against anyone.

We need to check them against Opus, ... That way we can compare what the prices are everyday.

We need to bounce back, especially against those teams like Redwood that we've already seen.

We need to be smart enough to hit the deep corners and then know when to switch up and drop the ball short. The kids are beginning to understand how to attack and it all comes down to passing. If we pass well other teams have to defend against the quick set.

We need to be more efficient at what we do. Even though everybody knows each other they haven't played together at this level. It was hard to play our game against that kind of pitching. We didn't bunt today and didn't do a lot of running.

We have made very clear that his fatwa (edict) against Americans is unacceptable -- and do not believe that anyone should give him safe haven,

Michael Malone

We moved up this morning relatively quickly up against the highs of last week, and that just so happens to be also the top of the range that we've recently been trading in on the S&P. We ran up to those levels and we're seeing a little big of profit taking as a result.

When you are trying to compete against a region with such a huge head start, why not play to your strengths?

When you are successful, everyone comes in and tries to play their best game against you. That's hard for the girls to deal with.

When you're blessed with a wide body and some girth, you want to beat people up, ... And tonight that's what I tried to do -- get in there and bang against them.

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.

When the game was still being contested, we had a lot of pretty good looks that I like, that we usually make. If you miss open shots, you're going to have a problem against a team like that.

When we play hard and we play smart, we can play against anybody.

When we play games against top-10 programs and in the NCAA Tournament, she's the type of player who's going to step up and shine and take us to another level. That's how much talent she has.