Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I did when I took over is ask what we need to build a program around. To me it's discipline and the weight room. Those are the two big things I've focused on.

Dick Thornburgh

One of the things George Bush was comfortable with in asking me to stay on as attorney general, he told me, was that I was a friend, but not a crony.

Lesley Nicol

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.

One of our reporters asked me if we would be scared of the environment. We know it's going to be loud, but it's easier to get excited for a game like that rather than 500 people. We have good crowds here and (opposing) teams play well and are emotional.

One of our goals was serving. All the girls did a very good job. I don't think we started missing serves until that last game. They all did real well. All I asked for them was to challenge each pass and I think they did a good job, each one of them.

One of our customers asked which patch they should deploy if there starts to be a lot of third-party patches. I told them, it's just like picking a dentist or a plumber -- you're going to go with someone who's got a good reputation.

One man told me he asked his wife to marry him on our front porch years ago.

One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she did. She said, 'It was more.'

One little boy in a red shirt said that he wanted one of the pencils and notebooks that they had helped unload and he asked if he could have one, ... A teacher said she would make sure he got one.

One life has been lost. I ask you not to destroy another.

One memory that just really stood out in my mind was our first home basketball game. She had some time before the game started. Each one of the girls came up to her, and she asked them how they wanted their hair done. They sat in front of her and she did their hair in blue and yellow ribbons.

Nicolas Sarkozy

One asks himself why a certain number of young French people are in Pakistan in religious schools, ... It's not normal that an individual who lives in our neighborhoods leaves all of a sudden for four months in Afghanistan, three months in Syria. We want to know who is going where, for how long, and when they come back.

Jennifer McMahon

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Freddie Roach

One of (Juan's) friends told me that he thought he made a mistake and wanted to come back. I told him all he had to do was pick up the phone and ask me, and that's all it took. I don't hold grudges at all. It's a good working relationship, which is what you need to have success.

Alice Oswald

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Obviously, we got off to a slow start. I asked a couple of my players if they wanted to go home.

Obviously, we want him to come back, but we'll help him with that decision if he asks our opinion. We know that whatever his decision, we'll support it.

Jeff Myers

Of course that's your decision, but we still ask that this not be approved.

Mike Quade

Obviously, you lose two quality guys and you ask guys to do some things they haven't done before and you're hoping somebody can pick it up. The bullpen is a work in progress right now.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

Abu Abbas

Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'

O. Henry

Of course I thought about leaving. I asked myself a lot of questions at Christmas time.

Mahmoud Abbas

Of course, I am going to ask the majority party to form the government.

No one saw this coming. Now they know who we are and we are going to have to come back and work even harder. It was a great ride, and I enjoyed every minute of it. For me, it was the best year of coaching in my nine years here. I felt they played for me every game and gave it their all, and that's all a coach can ask for.

Ellen Galinsky

No one had ever asked young people about the issues they face growing up. I don't think this changes the fact that adults need to be in charge; I'm not asking children to run the families of America. . . . But their insight about their lives is actually fairly interesting input into our lives.

Craig Biggio

No, not at all. I think if second base didn't go as well as it has, I might have missed it, but I always wanted to catch and once I got here, after four years they asked me to move. You do what you have to do in order to stay in the big leagues.

no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence.

No one could ask more than what these guys did. It was not a lack of effort, it was just that our shots wouldn't fall, and that happens in basketball.

John Salley

No one asks the cow or the chicken where it gets its protein. I eat about 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, and I cook for myself. I also have a line of cooks that work with me - some raw, some vegan.

Sathya Baba

No one asks himself what good or benefit society derives from him. Start by rendering benefit to society.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

Duncan Hunter

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

One time somebody asked me what Woody and I talked about, ... You know, we didn't talk that much. We didn't have to. I knew what he thought, and he knew what I thought.