Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin O'Malley

The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

The Austrians are so by-the-book. They're almost like robots.

(The Adidas slogan) 'Impossible is Nothing' resonates with this generation almost like no other campaign that I've seen.

That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of our country into a mythical figure.

That is proving almost impossible without giving him some sort of break and I am hoping that they will agree,

That is the one significant overriding factor that will dominate the market's attention next week. There appears to be an almost even 50-50 chance they'll move.

That is the most valuable animal we have. That is the focus of selective harvest. You want to focus the harvest where the greatest surplus is, and that is almost never in the largest fish.

That is why we are working with 44 partners from 12 European countries, which means almost all the groups that have studied these questions on our continent. This will enable us to compile a kind of super European database.

Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts andto write a new one.

Chauncey Billups

Tay had us on his back last night and almost carried us to a victory. Tonight, he did it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

Switching the lineup changed the attitudes around. It's almost like it injected a little energy.

David Ansen

Superbly marketed, Pearl Harbor is the very model of a modern blockbuster. Will it matter that almost nothing about its human drama rings true?

(Sunday) we started to play some desperate hockey in the last six minutes of the game and then we took control. We just didn't have that extra step we needed in the first two periods. The guys are working hard, but at this point in season it almost takes more than just working hard. Teams talk about getting that extra bounce. We have to put forth the needed effort to get that bounce. Once we're willing to do that, things will go our way.

Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has nothing to do with whether they will change their lifestyle. It's whether or not they can connect with someone once they get out.

It's just a big circle. Now, you're almost into kids who had parents that made the playoffs.

B. F. Skinner

It's inevitable. You almost have to expect that.

It's indicative of this whole new generation of ethnic media that you find in almost all sectors, all ethnic groups. It's really part of what the community imagines its future to be.

Andrew Tobias

It's complete freedom of expression, almost instant gratification, ... No two-month delay until your magazine article appears or nine-month delay until the book comes out - and almost instant feedback. I have thousands of terrific readers, and I learn at least as much from them as they do from me.

It's coach Fox's call. He knows me almost as good as my mom (Julie Ruiz) does.

Randy Johnson

It's clear we don't have enough workers with math and science degrees and in a workforce of 140m a cap of 65,000 is way too low. The cap has filled almost immediately over the past two years.

It's clear they had a big support network and one that has managed to function without creating any chatter that the security services picked up. And almost certainly, this is only the tip of the iceberg. They can strike again.

Bruce Tulgan

There's tremendous demand for skilled people at all levels of almost every organization and almost every industry and that's true in almost every part of the country.

There's this almost universal sense that we're in this big cap-ex spending cycle and the big stocks should be moving on that, but they haven't been.

Robert Thompson

There's this almost defeatist attitude in the Midwest that Brazil has captured most world markets growth recently and the U.S. WTO round proposal will significantly cut subsidies linked to production of specific commodities.

Anthony Shadid

There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years; the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath?

There was an almost an 80% decline one year from 640,000 vehicles to 200,000, and now it's grown back. Our share has grown a lot.

Jeff Gordon

The retirement package that was available for my almost 32 years of employment will vanish before many others and myself are eligible to receive it, if this new plan is implemented.

There's usually someone who will insure almost anything for the right price.

These people have their hand in every deal, almost every deal, and to the detriment of the well-being of the rest of us.

These views are unfortunate, since the reality is almost the exact opposite.

This is a very good team and you almost question why they're in this league.

This is a very diverse team. There are players from several countries on our team. The team is almost 50 percent men and 50 percent women.