Famous Quotes & Sayings

(Police) told me they were certain it was him, and that's why I testified. That was bad to blame someone that was not there.

Potential is a bad word. It's a sad thing if you don't reach it.

Devin Nunes

Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Stephanie Adams

Posing in Playboy is every bad girl's dream and every good girl's fantasy. (Stephanie Adams Interview regarding Playboy)

Cyrus Broacha

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

Personally, the experience is amazing. To see where these kids live and grow up, it's an experience all in itself to just talk to them individually and feel that you have made some kind of positive impact on their life. Most of them really are good kids stuck in a bad situation and we are there to try to bring out that motivation and determination in them to succeed in life. And the kids have started to warm up to us. They are starting to bring their homework more often and have gained more interest in what we have to share with them.

Retief Goosen

My swing is definitely not there. Yesterday I was very bad off the tee and I had to keep chopping out sideways. I was a bit better today, at least I kept the ball in play more.

Jacky Ickx

My school achievements remained bad and my parents said : Each person has their abilities. You only have to tease them out. They urged me to find an area, where I could beat the others.

My uncle had been a basketball player in his day. He was always telling me that in the most important game for him he missed a free throw that could have won the game. He told me he felt bad about it. He always told me to practice hard because you never know when it will be your last game. You never know when the game can be taken from you. When we lost to IMS, I felt like I let him down.

One thing I pride myself on his how hard our defense plays and how bad the players want to be the best in the league.

Niche players can have one bad quarter and they don't have the wherewithal to survive that, or at least survive it easily.

Jerry Maren

Nice kids but they just loved their beer, ... That?s what gave us the bad name.

Joey Harrington

Nobody played well. The problem when you're playing quarterback ... even if things go wrong around you, you're the last line of defense, and my mistakes compounded what was already happening yesterday. It was just an all-around bad day for everybody.

Jeff Ross

Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.

Nightmare is always a bad ending and a relief.

Nobody can figure out what's going to happen with the market -- they're all guessing. Let's say CNN or Fox or MSNBC brings up a picture of a GI in a bad situation. The market takes a dip. Is that a fundamental or a technical move? No, it's a war-driven, live-video stream move, which means it's totally unpredictable.

Bob Wright

Nobody is immune. There are elements that are very bad and the reputations of countries and citizens are at stake.

Nobody in Quebec thinks the Olympics are a bad idea. They're flat-out determined to be involved.

Nevertheless, money supply contractions are often harbingers of bad times ahead, and if this lasts much longer, people will get more concerned.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

NBC is stable and our vital signs are encouraging. Most predictions were that we were going to go from bad to worse this year, and that hasn't happened.

On the road we just haven't played up to out potential. Today (Saturday) we defended well and forced them (South Carolina State) to take bad shots.

On the good side we would keep them from freezing. On the bad side we were more or less enabling them.

Only time will tell if it is a good day for Formula One or a bad day for Formula One, but unfortunately, and I don't like to say this, I don't think it will prove to be a good day.

Clive Woodward

One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall many people talking about it. There have been very few bad incidents, hardly any citing offenses and (Watson's) looking forward to tomorrow's game and so are we.

Hugh Johnson

One of the most important signs of a bull market is when the bull market manages very, very bad news like we've had today. So in that sense, you've got a very encouraging performance today.

One of them is sick, badly sick, and could give up tonight. If one of them dies, we kill them all.

One of the problems with bad history is that when it's repeated often enough, then it becomes the story. He never says here's where he got this or that. We don't know if this is something told by a member of his family, or some yarn he heard hanging around Town Hall or over the wood stove.

Miguel Cabrera

I was going to home plate to make the one out. I thought it was the right choice, but it was a bad throw.

Darcy Tucker

I was going to hit him, but I was in a bad position and I realized I would hurt him, so I pulled out. Maybe I touched him. But I could have hit him and I didn't.

I was floored by how bad it was. I don't think it's realistic to expect that this is going to work itself out by the second quarter. This is not an opportunity to buy on a weakness. This is a time to stay on the sidelines. Too many things have to go right. Intel has to reinvent itself very quickly, and you tend not to bet that a supertanker can turn on a dime.