Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today we begin to build a global union in very specific terms. In a global economy with global employers it seems rather obvious that we need global unions.

Kasey Keller

To be able to shut them up at the beginning of the second half by getting two goals and just kind of seeing the game out comfortably was fantastic.

Sri Chinmoy

Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey.

Robert Collier

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Gregory Maguire

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Ben Jonson

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Timothy Hutton

I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.' I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.

Trey Gowdy

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

We'd like to rebound with a sense of accomplishment. We didn't have a good year last year. I'd like to go .500 to begin with.

We would hope that the minister of finance lives up to his commitment to provide clarity on this issue at the beginning of 2006, as we are now being forced to operate in a business vacuum,

We were all glad when it was over, I think. I think we all enjoyed it, but it was a real challenge and we were all eager to get home and begin living our lives again.

We were a little worried at the beginning with only three pitchers. But we're doing a good job now, so I'm really proud.

We were a little independent and selfish at the beginning of the year, and we paid for it.

We were a different team at the start of the season than we were at the end. At the beginning of the season we were a transition team that played good full-court defense. By the end of the season we were a half-court team.

We were able to respond to this hurricane and begin our support missions as quickly as we always have,

Matt Hall

We definitely weren't playing our best game in the beginning and that showed. I don't know if that was from the layoff or whatever, but it was our fault.

We definitely started crashing the boards better in the second half. We knew if we weren't going to get the rebounds now, when are we going to rebound? Rebounds always matter, no matter if it's the beginning or end.

We do expect broad-based dollar weakness to resume when or shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve begins to signal the end of the current tightening cycle.

We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.

Richard Mourdock

Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.

Richie Havens

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.

Rudy Giuliani

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

I will never begin to know what the accountants do or what the camera guys do, as much as I try to learn just out of respect for what they do and to try to make my job as manager more efficient. The most important thing is to let those people do their jobs while making it clear what the parameters are.

The Democrats are in exactly the same position as the Sunnis in Iraq. From the very beginning, they have done everything they can to disparage the process. Now they have to turn around and convince their supporters to participate. That is a pretty quick pivot.

The debt equity swap carried by the Chinese is beginning to be rather costly, it is this organic realization rather than pushy comments from (U.S. Treasury Secretary) John Snow that is likely to trigger a change.

William T. Vollmann

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

Wilbur Ross

I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth.

Daniel H. Wilson

I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

Anna Jameson

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Armstrong Williams

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.