Famous Quotes & Sayings

by lifting road blocks and increasing freedom of movement, and the terrorists have exploited these humanitarian measures.

I'm just happy to run for my team. I was running hard because they're blocking so hard for us.

If Lukoil wins the arbitration, it's CNPC's problem, ... If they block this deal they can pick up shares of Petrokazkhstan at a lower price with no other bidder.

Carl Robinson

If my offensive line makes the blocks then I'll be able to make the runs.

I had to sit on the corner. That's when I walked down the block and saw my mom coming. Just because we have rims, police expect us to be drug dealers. I work for Comcast. It cost $670 to get my vehicle back.

I grew up in Largo and started working at 12 at my father's theater (the Largo Theatre), two blocks from the hotel .

The first half was a very fast-paced game. There were a lot of possessions and we came out of the blocks shooting really well, but it's hard to get out early like that and maintain that kind of energy.

The first four blocks of Gulfport are nothing but foundations ... and it's that way from Slidell, La., to just east of Pascagoula, Miss.,

The first quarter our girls did everything right and we were only down by one. After that, for some reason, we just forgot how to play basketball. We stopped playing defense and stopped blocking out. If we had just played four quarters like (the first), it would be a different story.

Thad Cochran

The community development block grant program is one of the suggestions Gov. Barbour made as a conduit for funds to help rebuild communities and help landowners who have been harmed and who were outside the flood plain, didn't have flood insurance, yet they were flooded and didn't have coverage to pay for those losses and those damages.

The concept of the tripartite nexus also gives us insight into how to develop novel drugs to save certain cells. For example, if we could block the formation of the nexus in children receiving radiation or chemotherapy for cancer, we might be able to save otherwise healthy cells from the side effects of these treatments. Or, we might be able to encourage the formation of the tripartite nexus in cells that pose a threat to the body.

Neal Boortz

Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

Neale Donald Walsch

Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.

Nate Berkus

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

Nate Berkus

As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.

Mike Lowell

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Lauryn Hill

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Laini Taylor

Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream. His voice soared over the pandemonium - a scream to scour the souls of all gathered, a sound to drive ghosts from their nests.

James Rollins

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

Gary Chapman

Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one’s search for meaning.

Louise Hay

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.

The guys out there threw some good blocks for me, and I hit any gap I saw. As a running back, we can take any little gap and see daylight, we're going to hit it. That's the way I'm going to run back kicks for the playoffs, and next year, if I'm going to do it.

Brian Elliott

The guys in front of me have been unreal lately. Just blocking shots, as we say in the locker room, organ donating. Everybody is just all out and you can't say enough about the guys in front of you.

Brian Elliott

The guys in front of me have been playing unreal lately just diving and blocking shots. They say in the dressing room they're organ donors.

Brian Elliott

The guys did a good job blocking shots. Everybody was putting their bodies on the line.

Flip Saunders

The guy that has been on a mission here is Ben. They might as well take the Defensive Player of the Year trophy and send it here for the fourth time, because when you look at all the things he's doing - defensive rebounding, blocking shots, steals - he's just doing everything.

The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.

Jacques Maritain

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

Helen Garner

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.

Hedrick Smith

This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

Hedi Slimane

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

Henry Ford

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

Malcolm X

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.