Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've never said that this would be an easy operation, ... certain of the outcome.

We will be assessing his fitness - we certainly need him on board.

We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.

To a certain point, that is already happening. It's enough to look at the tone of his speeches since he was elected.

To a certain point I feel like competitively I've done it all, looking back on everything with a smile on my face. Football is the missing block. Make it? Don't make it? I need to find that out.

Michael Hitchcock

To a certain extent, they want to try to have as much resolution as possible ... before Ms. Mullen is set to be sworn in.

To a certain extent it was frustrating, just because I had to learn new positons and schemes, ... But at the same time I felt comfortable that they were getting me into positions where I had a legitimate chance to see playing time. It was sweet and sour.

To a certain extent, it was frustrating. It took a lot of learning. At the same time, it was comforting to know they were putting me in positions to get me on the field. It was kind of sweet and sour.

To a certain extent, it makes sense for Samsung to do this and it will put pressure on others to do the same.

To a certain extent, Bush's speech about increased spending in the U.S. Gulf Coast is helping the market. I am not too terribly surprised that consumer confidence is low because the number is colored by Katrina.

To a certain degree, yes you can bargain. The real key is how much value the institution places on the individual applicant.

To a certain degree, the regional exchanges had to do something to remain competitive in this marketplace.

There is short-term certainty and medium-term mystery for the Fed.

Those three girls have certainly played some high-level tennis so far.

Those that have to have them for a product like a hamburger certainly can get what they need.

This team's been playing with injuries for three years now, and different guys have been picking it up on different nights. We certainly want those guys back as soon as we can get them. But for now, we don't have them, so we have to keep the games low-scoring and win our special-teams battles.

Jim Calhoun

This team, at times, can be overwhelming to handle for certain teams. It can dominate through size. It can mismatch you in so many different ways. As long as the guy who makes us go (Marcus Williams) has good games, they we can play with anybody.

This was very big -- we want to see that we're making progress. I said before that we had to go back to square one and just plain execute. I see we have a lot of flaws in executing, but it's certainly better than it was the first game. Now we know we're going in the right direction.

This was the last song I wrote with Wally shortly before he died. He loved humor, particularly bawdy humor, and this song certainly has that.

This was certainly not a worthwhile battle. What do you gain - that a few ballplayers can't play ball? This was a silly resistance and just not worth it.

John Davidson

This was certainly a surprise. It's definitely spooked stocks and raised worries about whether consumer spending, which is responsible for around two-thirds of the economy, is going to slow down, and how that will impact the recovery.

John Davidson

This was certainly a surprise, ... It's definitely spooked stocks and raised worries about whether consumer spending, which is responsible for around two-thirds of the economy, is going to slow down, and how that will impact the recovery.

This was certainly a successful launch for the 30-year bond.

This was a very important and strategic move by Oracle, which is certainly good for them in long run.

This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

J. Taylor

This unfortunate incident is certainly not indicative of our destination, as we are known for our warm hospitality.

John Ruskin

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

What people have an issue with is in certain instances, there have been confrontations. We're fearful she's going to run into a situation where that's going to get out of control.

Marsha Blackburn

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

We got a little conservative because we certainly wanted to make sure we got the win.

Andy Murray

We go by the rankings we have in practice, and he certainly was one of our better ones. He scored on a penalty shot earlier this year.

We gave him a contract extension. Certainly that speaks volumes about what we think about our program and his continuous leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

We fully intend to find them and chase them to the ground and root them out, ... We certainly intend to find (bin Laden) and we're doing everything humanly possible to do that.