Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Garner

Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Jacque Jones

While it's exciting to be a present-day Thurgood Marshall, it is also disappointing that we are still fighting the same battles that should've been solved years ago.

While he was with us, he was swinging the bat real well. The thing that stood out for me is the improvement he's made defensively. He's throwing better and he's taking better routes in the outfield defensively.

With our speed, we think it's a strength and we can score runs. We just didn't have our bats today.

With our personnel, we can give Serra a battle (for the Division IV team title).

Without question this battle has been time consuming and draining. How much better could the numbers have been if management had been freed up to focus on the business and not reading legal briefs?

Rebecca MacKinnon

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

We need to come out and battle for third. If we can do that, we can make into the top five.

We have made some changes in our defense without sacrificing for offense. It's been kind of blessing for us, because now we have some competition with the bottom half of our batting order. Our kids know that we intend on putting our best nine players on the diamond.

We moved to battle positions. We never returned to barracks.

When we played them before, we didn't bring our heads, our bats or our arms. They brought themselves, and that's it. I was dumbfounded, really.

Donald Adams

When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries in the UPS systems were not sufficiently strong enough.

We will have a real battle next week at the Bobcat.

We've only played two or three games in the past two weeks. I didn't know how our bats would react, but we swung it well.

Jay McKee

We wanted to get on them early but they got the first goal and that certainly wasn't our game plan but we were able to battle through and pull it off.

We had some opportunities but even in the losses, you learn something. It's a huge meet that you want your seniors to do well in. But it's a tough battle to survive. That's why so many people buy tickets and pack this place.

We'd bathe her, feed her, all of that stuff.

We are excited for the bat of Lindsey Rowberry also. She has hit well for us this year and she is only a junior.

Julianne Moore

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

Gabrielle Aplin

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.

We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

Ron Gardenhire

We're trying to survive. We've got injuries. We've got people out. I think we're battling pretty good.

Billy Herman

When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.

The only shame is we have Huntington next who we have to battle in the sectional. I'm sure we won't see their ace, and they're not going to see ours.

Tony McCoy

There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.

Floyd Abrams

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Carl Honore

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

We have to come out, especially at home and not let the other team get a jump on us like that. This is the second or third game that's happened. Battling back is hard, especially when you play a team like Nevada.

We have to break the siege on Jerusalem. There is a battle for Jerusalem. Sharon has frozen the building here and prevented the creation of a greater Jerusalem. Instead, he is enabling the creation of a greater Palestine.