Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose George

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

Paulo Freire

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.

We pride ourselves on our defense, and our defense carried us tonight. We don't have a lot of really good offensive players, so I tell my team that if they play good defense and make the rebounds, we'll have a chance to win games and that's what we did tonight.

We pressed them, forced some turnovers and got big momentum on our side. We looked dead in the water, but the momentum switched and we carried it through.

Aimee Garcia

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

Sidney Crosby

We are playing with pride. We have a lot of young guys in here trying to make an impression. We had some momentum going there. I thought we carried the whole third period. It was good to get the momentum, but tough to get it taken away like that.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Will Shields

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

Elizabeth Warren

I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.

Barack Obama

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Lawrence Timmons

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

Miroslav Klose

We are not going to get carried away by this win. We have to start playing well for 90 minutes and not just a half.

Lysander Spooner

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

Rick Carlisle

We set a great tone early with a great defensive effort, and that sort of carried the day as far as the game went. Tonight we did a lot of things well and I thought we got better as a team, so that's a good sign.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Jeff Johnson

We have had leads before but they usually got away. We carried it through tonight. Obviously, we're hoping a win like this will give us some momentum.

John Grant

We could have really put them in a hole, and we could have carried some momentum.

Toll has negotiated for itself a 20-year contract which gives it exclusive rights to all of the freight carried by Pacific National in Queensland,

We needed that. Oklahoma State needed it. So did our players and our fans. We had three great days of practice, and I'm glad it carried over to the game.

Gary Neville

We get too carried away by shouts from the crowd. What do you expect?

Noam Chomsky

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.

Noam Chomsky

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Robin Cook

we are dismayed by the nuclear tests which have been carried out by Pakistan.

Joe Sakic

We were just trying to get two points, just trying to win a game. There was no sense getting carried away with anything. We just wanted to win a game and that's the most important thing.

We were just going to keep fighting. Chamberlain did an excellent job of doing what he does best, shooting the ball. He carried us and put us over the top.

Mel Torme

Whereas a musician is luckier; a lot of times, the reflection of what he is as a human being is not even remotely carried through in what he plays.

Nadine Velazquez

I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

Chuck Feeney

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

Scott Harding

We were hoping to get four innings. He's carried us before in some tough 1-0, 2-0 losses, so this time his teammates picked him up.

What a great bunch. They wore the Lady Monarch uniform with pride. They carried on the fine tradition. I know its hurts right now, but when they reflect and look back on what they've accomplished, it's really matched by very few teams.

What historians will do is not focus on her role as the wife of Martin ... or that she carried on his legacy. They will focus on how she managed to be the leader of institutions and movements by her own right. And not just in organizing the King Center.