Famous Quotes & Sayings

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

We got to learn how to start a football game. We have to start faster out of the blocks. The beginning wasn't good. Right now, we're not a very good football team.

We gave up or something. We came out strong at the beginning of the first quarter and third quarter, then at the end we just died out. We didn't have no energy down the stretch.

We are now beginning to see the benefits of all that hard work,

We are not talking about a solution, but talking about convincing relevant parties to begin meeting.

We had too much of our infrastructure go down in this hurricane. We have to do something. When my phone begins working again, I will call for a complete probe of the entire operation.

Hannah Kent

You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

We got off to a slow start but played hard on defense and tried to take the fight to them. They're a tough team. They have so many weapons, inside with Brunner and outside with their shooters. They stretched us out and got some open looks at the beginning of the game.

We got off to a slow start at the beginning of the year, ... We're starting to hit on three, four cylinders.

Scott Skiles

We fouled a lot tonight, we had a night where we were just flat not into it right from the beginning of the game. And really a pretty pitiful effort.

Jerry Sloan

We fought at the beginning of the second half and then they just annihilated us. They defended us well and we had a very tough time scoring inside. If we keep playing like that, we won't get into the playoffs.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

Peter Shaffer

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

We have a lot of citizens that are very unhappy with this site and we have a lot of charter people who want to put it there without regard to what the citizens want. I would say we're just beginning a long a difficult process.

We have always expected that the time was coming very soon when (the federal government) would begin greater enforcement.

Judd Gregg

We need to have presidential leadership and it can't be the usual suspects, ... They can't just send up another list of the requests that they made at the beginning of the budget process and claim that they've done their job.

We could have started this route at the beginning of the series and talked about it for a long period of time,

We could have gotten more of those in the first half and the beginning of the second half but we kept jumping. So I told them to keep their feet planted and take the charge. They did a good job with that.

We know the chief sources of the warming fossil fuels and, in the tropics, the burning of trees for cooking but we haven't moved to stop it, ... It really isn't that difficult to begin reducing carbon emissions, as Europe and Japan are doing already. We could certainly put a cap on the quantity of greenhouse gases industry can emit.

We know the chief sources of the warming -- fossil fuels and, in the tropics, the burning of trees for cooking -- but we haven't moved to stop it, ... It really isn't that difficult to begin reducing carbon emissions, as Europe and Japan are doing already. We could certainly put a cap on the quantity of greenhouse gases industry can emit.

We know that we cannot change the past, and we can't make up for the wrongs of slavery. But we can learn from our past, and begin a stronger dialogue about slavery and the experience of African-Americans in our country.

We know that the economic situation is very difficult, but we will not go begging to the US and Europe.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We have won. Everything indicates that we have won, but this is only the beginning.

We have under way the beginning of a very major relief effort.

Ron Zook

We have two new tackles, big guys. That pocket is not going to compress as much. And moving Ryan put him at a more natural position. He's done a great job. A couple of snaps at the beginning of the spring were a little off, but he hasn't missed a call. Moving Matt to guard has made him a little more comfortable.

We just didn't wrestle quite as well in the championship match. But we're walking out state runner-up. I'm proud of this team. It's been a great year. At the beginning of the year I wasn't sure how we were going to be. These kids stepped up and we wrestled in the championship match.

We believe the company is poised to begin to reap the rewards of these investments in 2005, and we think this will likely be reflected in superior levels of earnings growth over the comings years.

We came out strong at the beginning of the game and played to our strengths, which are rebounding and defense, but we didn't bring the intensity tonight. I can't wait until we play them again.

We came out ready to play in the third quarter. We were fortunate that they had a couple second-chance opportunities at the beginning of the quarter that they missed. Sometimes it's that simple - make or miss - and we made a good percentage tonight.

We came out here in the beginning of the game really shaken up, with jitters in our stomach. West Virginia gave it their all. They played like it was their last game. Unfortunately, it was ours.

We came out flat in the second half. We came out and committed two costly fouls at the beginning of the half. We just played sluggish.

Reza Aslan

I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.

Scott Turow

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.