Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are not against development or growth at all. We would like to see smart growth where key resources such as prime farmland are protected.

We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.

Victor Valdes

We are more beginners than them in the matter of semi-finals, they are more experienced. We must be careful because the Italians start slowly and then end up scoring against you.

Fidel Castro

We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.

Sven Eriksson

We are meeting one of the best teams in the world. It's important for our confidence that we do well in this game and important for the England fans as well. If they see we can play good football against Argentina it gives us more hope for next summer.

We basically wanted to take Spencer out of his comfort zone, and that's hard to do against the best player in the country. We just wanted to make all his shots difficult, and we did that.

We are always happy when we win, but it wasn't a 100 percent portrayal of how we will fare against 4A schools.

Tom Brady

Xavier is a big rival of ours and they are in our league, so it was nice to get that first league win against them. It was definitely fun volleyball.

Rick Atkinson

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck... even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.

Richard Mourdock

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

Pope Benedict XVI

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

Sarah MacLean

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated.

I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past two games). For them to get the ball back right away gave us more momentum. Then we get the turnover and convert on that.

The decision was made to proceed speedily and appropriately to bring UU4 down, weighed against the alternative of shutting down multiple units, creating significant other risks,

The decision was made after substantial documentation of not fulfilling his responsibilities. It was hard for Larry; he's going against someone who supported him politically.

Jim Connors

The decision to utilize a 34K core in our storage network processor design came after extensive internal benchmarking against a competitive multi-core solution. The realized saving in die size and power consumption, coupled with its compelling performance, made the 34K core stand out as the clear winner.

The defendant needs to be fairly informed of the charges against which he must defend,

John Buck

The deepest in the league, by a long shot. They're all really patient hitters. It's not often you have all nine guys who play tough and take pitches. You've got to go the full nine innings, especially against these guys.

The decree is protection against all future diversions from the Arkansas River. The Board of Water Works was extremely cooperative in obtaining it, and we look for their help in defending it. We rely on their expertise.

Edward Leigh

The Department for Education and Skills looks to be losing ground in its battle against truancy. Having remained at the same level for many years, the level of truancy has suddenly increased - to over 0.8% of school days.

Richard Garnett

The Democrats won't have the votes to sustain a filibuster even if they wanted to, ... I think people will vote against him, even though they know he's going to be confirmed, because the polarization's gotten worse. But that's unfortunate, because whatever one's ideological views, based on his merits he is one of the best qualified nominees in 50 years.

Frank Lautenberg

The Democrats voted against this budget resolution, and it wasn't so much on the issues we wanted to have taken care of. Listening to the debate, each of us wants to protect Social Security in different ways. One can observe that we both want to do something about Medicare, but in different degrees and in different ways.

The Democratic Party has sunk to a new low with a false, personal attack against his family. It's gutter politics, and it has no place in Montana.

The Delphi bankruptcy didn't help. The concern is, what are the repercussions of that for General Motors and for other automakers and the component makers. And it's all happening against background where real wages are not rising, so the question is, who's going to buy what American manufacturers produce?

The Dells are hard to argue against due to their performance and stability. Even though people can have deep-seated preferences, they can see their value.

(The delay) was not the best experience, and so to come back and win (Sunday) was just great. Hopefully we can keep it rolling from there against Oregon State.

The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons in the second half of this year and the first half of next year,

Morgan Spurlock

The debate continues in America, but anytime people start to question it the people start to say, 'Well you're against farmers, you're against farming in America,'

Janeane Garofalo

I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.

We play the old-school inside-outside game. We made some adjustments against their zone in the second half and that opened the inside game. I'm glad Harvey was hitting them early because no one else was scoring.

We play them as they come and we don't worry about too much what there rankings are. We weren't ranked and we almost played a really good game against Southern. We realize that if we play up to our potential we can play with anyone and we proved that last Saturday night. I would expect that we will prove it all over again on Saturday afternoon.

We play the best team in the country twice, and everyone else we play is in the top 10. Then my (athletic director) tells me our non-conference game is against Moorestown. We have a killer schedule, but we had a nice preseason and I think we'll be OK.