Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwin B. Nuland

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

We didn't play assignment football at the end like we should have defensively to stop the option. We attacked the quarterback pretty well in the third quarter, but then the fullback got us on some bend-backs late in the ballgame. We had people in the right positions, but I'm disappointed in the missed tackles." ()

You had really junior analysts assigned to the biggest assignments.

Chan Gailey

What they do is make you play assignment football. Somebody's got to take the running back. Somebody's got to take the quarterback. Somebody's got to take the wide receiver coming around for the hitch. Then, you have to be ready for the play-action pass. They make you monitor threats, and that cuts down your pursuit, if you're not careful.

Women are being assigned to units that are supposed to be all male, that are required to be all male. That law is being ignored.

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win, but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

We had to change our minds within three or four weeks. Without the staff pastor assigned here, leading small groups and praying with people, it got a little thin.

Ned Yost

It's possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they're OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

Does this pose a national security risk? I think that's pushing the envelope. It's not impossible to imagine one could develop an internal conspiracy, but I'd have to assign it a very low probability.

Assign jobs and make sure they're done and evaluate the performance. I think (Hall) wants to improve. I won't support his termination. He's had a bad year but he can change.

As You assign me, so I take to Your service.

A company doing business on the Internet sends mail daily. A spammer or zombie may wake up once a month and disappear again. Normal mail senders don't do that. Without knowing what the message said, you can assign reputations looking at the relationships between senders.

It's just the little things, really. It's really nothing that major, maybe an assignment here, maybe another step you take there.

Lester Holt

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

It's obvious that the hurricanes will drag this number down, and because of that, separating the trend from the noise is going to be hard. When it's hard to assign a meaning to this number, the market will likely just overlook it.

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

That's a critical capability. If someone is promoted or demoted, their assigned rights to specific documents should change to reflect their increased or reduced responsibilities.

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

Each of the speakers will have an assigned topic. It's based on their strengths. They'll deal with the nuts and bolts of running a business with character and integrity. It will be incredibly motivating and entertaining.

Each of them did exactly what they were assigned to do. We don't run a simple system. A simple system won't win big games. We need to have a well-tuned system, and that's what we're working on doing.

Each shift is assigned a training topic and the training is then conducted while on-duty.

Every night ... we'd watch film together, or we'd come in late from games together, it was just good because he knew exactly what I was going through. We were doing homework together because we knew we had to get the assignment done before we went on the trip. It was great.

Bill Belichick

It's a combination of things. Sometimes we've missed blocks. Sometimes we've missed an assignment and didn't block a guy that we should have blocked.

Ed Orgeron

It's more of an assignment thing with Kendrick, but eventually he and Antonio will play. They aren't ready to play right now.

We got all these rolls assigned on Monday, so I'm feeling really good about that.

Kurt Andersen

We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.

We go out onto the Web and capture millions of stories. We crunch down the essential elements of people, places, topics, industries and products, assign mathematical scores, and produce a new way to search and organize news.

Not that they don't have wonderful skaters, but when I look at the results from some of the junior competitions, I'm not seeing the depth now that I used to see. So I have a question as to when this current crop of Russian skaters are finished whether they'll be as strong. Originally, the (Soviet) system was to assign a wonderful coach to perhaps one or two wonderful competitors and government would reimburse the coaches. Once that was removed, there was anticipation that this method wouldn't continue to produce any good skaters. So far it's been wrong. We'll see in the future.

Audio CD burning capability allows users to play burned music on players that don't have MP3 support, like a CD player. A beta tester burned a high school assignment to Audio CD using the new feature. She reported that the CD-R played flawlessly on the CD player available in the school, a CD player that was too old to recognize and play an MP3 CD.

Lloyd Carr

Defensively, it's become an assignment game. It's had an unbelievable impact.

E. O. Wilson

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

Something happened that changed the priority assigned to the job search. On the morning of December 11, 1997, Judge Susan Webber Wright ordered President Clinton to provide information regarding any state or federal employee with whom he had, proposed, or sought sexual relations. To keep Ms. Lewinsky satisfied was now of critical importance.