Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have all the confidence in the world that he's capable of getting us to the World Series.

We need to increase the Endowment Fund for the Capitol so it doesn't go the way of the Weidner (Center for the Performing Arts).

We need to increase our service capacity and it's just time for an update, we are 50 years old.

We couldn't capitalize on our scoring chances and that was the story of the game. They capitalized on our mistakes.

Matt Williams

We could have played with a little more intensity. We need to pick things up. We're not finishing on offense like we're capable of and it's frustrating.

Fabio Capello

We could have closed out the match in the first half. At the end, when the game did open up, we showed how we are capable of playing.

Mike Scioscia

We can't look at the standings. If we play the way we are capable of playing, we will reach our goal.

We have video from several people within the community that are history buffs. We had one person who submitted something on the history of the capitol building. There's no limit. We invite individuals, groups businesses, corporations.

We have very little spare capacity internationally to provide enough crude oil to the system to tolerate any more of these types of disruptions.

We have undiminished faith in the professional loyalty of the (armed forces) and the full capacity of the command to deal with these controversies.

We have to work through capacity bottlenecks and need more focus on production processes to improve order fulfillment and supply chain efficiencies,

We have to work on our shooting. We've had our chances but we don't capitalize on them. Other teams do and that's hurting us.

We just didn't hit the ball. We're very capable of hitting the ball, but that was a good pitcher and she kept us off balance.

Renzo Piano

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

Reza Aslan

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Rose Wilder Lane

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Orhan Pamuk

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Mavis Staples

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Paul Bloom

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

Paul Hawken

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting.

Michael Moore

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Marilynne Robinson

I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.

We had our chances, we didn't capitalize on it. Halifax can thank (goalie Jeremy) Duchesne for that.

We had our chances, and we should have won it without overtime. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities.

We had opportunities to score we just didn't play the way we are capable of playing. Luck hasn't been on our side this year but we are definitely better than last year. We just need to get a little lucky.

We have three individuals play well one day and three other individuals play well the next day, so we haven't had all six cylinders kicking at the same time. If the team produced what they're capable of, we'd be 9-0 right now.

John Grahame

We have the right to petition Congress. We think that we shouldn't have to do it just up on Capitol Hill.

We have the capacity to open dozens and dozens of shelters in south Florida if the need arises.

We have talked a lot about leadership. We name our captains late. They are just feeling their role and Marc stepped up big time. He leads by example and is a big motivator. How he plays is how we go.

Today this team showed what it's capable of. We did a good job of taking good shots and not forcing anything.

To live in this single moment,this lightest breath, this softest touch,to be captured by this smallest, this briefest space of time,to be fully present, alive, consumed in this instant alone,this is truly living.

True development requires far-reaching fundamental changes in governance and institutions, human capacity and economic structure, so that countries can sustain further economic and social progress without permanently depending on foreign aid.