Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a lottery thing, ... In my field of operations research, it's called an action-timing problem: Dynamically over time you are offered opportunities to make decisions and once you say 'yes,' you cannot go back.

It makes no sense (to go). You cannot do a fact-finding mission without talking to the detainees.

Richard Rodgers

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed

It's going to be kind of like playing in a road stadium with everyone on your side. You have 7,000 more people rooting for you, there's no way you cannot be excited about that.

Dominik Hasek

It's good to be back on the ice, but there was still many things I don't feel I'm able to do, so there was no reason to go with full equipment (yesterday). I can feel there is some improvement. I feel stronger. There are certain things I couldn't do two or three weeks ago I can do now. But there are still a few things I cannot do on the ice. I have to wait a few more days, or a week or whenever I can do it.

Allen Toussaint

Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.

This tells us we cannot rest on our laurels and we need to do all we can to ensure that all students are successful, ... We do a good job but it is not good enough.

This was an off night for us though. We cannot play like this next week. We owe Seminole one.

What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.

Hassan Nasrallah

What is illegal cannot be legal just because it has been 50 years. Occupation remains occupation, even if it's for hundreds of years.

Jeff Lindsay

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

We cannot yet conclude the source of the blast.

We cannot win this race by doing the same things we've been doing, ... I thank Howard Dean for making my little girl's dream -- and my dream -- his dream.

We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,

We cannot win the White House without winning electoral votes in the South.

Jacob Lew

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.

Steve Frank

We cannot win as a party that wants more regulation, more taxes and more Democrat judges. If he continues to do that, it's going to be a very long night in November for him.

We cannot vulgarize the deaths. We can't keep talking about winning or being competitive while there are people dying.

We cannot underestimate the possible loss to the reserves if, in the long run, the United States adopts a weak-dollar policy and we are still maintaining a high level of dollar reserves.

James Wolfensohn

We cannot turn globalization back. Our challenge is to make globalization an instrument of opportunity and inclusion -- not fear and insecurity. With all the forces making the world smaller, it is time to change our way of thinking, time to realize we live together in one world, not two -- this poverty is in our community wherever we live. It is our responsibility.

Francis Bacon

We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts

Waisale Serevi

We cannot think of winning the circuit now ? there are still a lot of tournaments left.

We cannot talk about any punishment until we have the results of the B test.

We cannot take the progress we have made over the past four years and put it in the hands of the most persistent and vigorous opponent of that progress.

Chris Henderson

We cannot take them looking at the table and seeing a last place team. If we do that, we are going to lose, ... If we take them as a team that is fighting and scratching for every point, kind of like we are, we will be successful.

Joschka Fischer

We cannot take a time-out when it comes to our security,

Roxane Gay

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

We cannot sugarcoat what we're facing as working people and as a nation. These are very serious times, and it is time for us to take very serious actions. If we don't stand up, who will?

We cannot stress how important it is for people to make sure that they strictly follow the bio-security arrangements.

George H. W. Bush

We cannot stress enough the danger this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast communities.

We cannot stop the run. I'm used to guys not getting 100 yards on us all year long. Someone has had 100 yards on us for I don't know how many games in a row.

Ronald Reagan

We cannot stop at the foothills when Everest lies ahead.