Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The governments should invest in primary and junior middle school operations and staff salary payment. They are not allowed to depend on fees from students to run schools.

Pico Iyer

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Ruth Bernhard

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Jeff Jones

We had our chances, but we couldn't capitalize on them. We allowed Emmanuel to get into its offensive rhythm throughout the game. We just didn't come out to play.

Rick Carlisle

We have the same group that played well and won the other night. We're not going to make excuses. Our undoing tonight was the first quarter when we allowed them to shoot over 77 percent. That got them going early.

Three members of a body that no one has ever elected should not be allowed to overturn the votes of millions of Londoners.

Thousands of people would be only to happy to contribute to the UK economy if they were given some recognition and allowed to work while they are here.

Renee Ellmers

Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

Carl Erskine

Today's managers don't give the starting pitcher a chance. Maybe this White Sox staff has re-proved something that was true all along. If the pitcher's in good shape, and he hasn't allowed too many runs, he can and should go all nine.

Ruby Rose

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

Mariano Rivera

We needed to go there and battle. Wang pitched tremendous and allowed our hitters to come back, and Cano hit the home run. It's the end of the season, so we have to give it everything we've got.

Heinrich Boll

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

Hillary Scott

We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.

Howie Mandel

I was never brave before. I always tried to make it work, ... Now I have nothing to lose except some cash, and it's just not that important to me. I've never been allowed up until now to remain who I am, or true to what my life is like.

Ronda Rousey

I wasn't allowed to throw big hooks and overhand rights until I'd been striking for three years. It's so you don't rely on those things from the very beginning. If your footwork sucks, and you can only stand in one place and throw your hands all crazy while the other person is running around, you're never going to be able to hit them.

Kaley Cuoco

I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda, or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted. So, we would do the baskets, and my sister and I would go crazy.

Anna Popplewell

I would not be allowed to be in the web series without playing 'Halo.' I'm awful, by the way. I'm much better at the live action version.

Courtney Ford

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.

Emanuel Ax

Most composers trust their listeners to respond at the right time, and if we feel like expressing approval, we should be allowed to, anytime!

While the closure of the Texas stores results in an impairment charge, it does set the stage for fundamentally improving our Texas operations, ... The competitive environment has softened over the last couple of quarters, which has allowed us to improve our sales in that environment despite carrying these underperforming stores.

Coco Chanel

who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.

John Hume

When the break between himself and ourselves took place it came to our surprise and we regretted that very much. He was the first MP from Northern Ireland to be even allowed to raise the Northern Ireland problem in the House of Commons.

When teams bang him around like they did tonight, it's surprising. But everyone's allowed a speed bump every once in a while.

We just went to the line with great poise and composure and it allowed us to keep scoring. We have great confidence in our guys when they go to the stripe. It's not easy to do all the time. It's different in OT and on the road.

Jim Calhoun

We just broke down and allowed some plays that shouldn't have happened.

We just allowed them back in the game. . We missed a lot of free throws.

Elizabeth Perkins

When you're dealing with a large ensemble cast, there's a lot of character choices coming and going. He really allowed us to find ourselves on film.

We believe there is a strong case for recovering some amounts that we were not allowed to recover.

We played very well. I think we felt guilty of perhaps making things a little bit difficult on ourselves. We created a number of good goal-scoring opportunities and came up short, and that allowed Trinidad to hang around for 89 minutes or so when they could have been punished and sent home a lot earlier.

We had him on the ropes. We got five on him real quick and then our guys eased up and didn't keep the pressure on him. We started to take too many strikes and that allowed him to get in a rhythm, and then he became very tough.