Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the first half, we were a little passive on offense. In the second half, Hooper stepped up big, and I challenged her to take it to the goal, and she did that and got quite a few good looks.

In the courtroom, as at the voting booths, there is little tolerance for challenges to the ruling party's hegemony.

In the '60s, to go to work in a job at NASA, you were the bomb. The challenge is trying to make it sexy again.

Interest in understanding the global wine market is keen, and globalization and its challenges were recurring topics during the Unified Symposium. However, overall there's a strong sense of optimism that the American grape and wine community is well positioned for success.

In supporting migrants, we do face formidable challenges but I'm still optimistic.

In our typical open house before the Olympics, we were twisting arms. The challenge now is finding ice time for people.

In particular, they have expressed concern about legal challenges to the distribution of stem-cell grants under California's Proposition 71. This issue needs to be reviewed thoughtfully and prudently.

I pointed to each kid before the match and challenged them. I told them either they were going to show they were contenders or pretenders. ... They proved they are contenders and did a nice job coming back.

In the two matches that we have played this season, Glasgow have challenged us.

Investors are looking past those challenges and seeing an economy that's still got a good growth rate and are preferring to take a risk with their portfolio than not.

In the second half, the whole idea was to put pressure on the rookie. We showed him stuff he's probably never seen. Coach challenged us and we responded.

In the meantime, these results present a challenge to policy makers.

I really challenged the guys to come out and show a lot of intensity. I didn't want them to overlook this game. We had to jump this hurdle before getting to the next.

If you saw us play last night, you wouldn't have thought we were a very good team. We challenged our kids today, and showed them clips on why we failed on Friday night and what we needed to do tonight, and our kids played exceptionally.

I get asked, how many more people will come to this country? I say, as many as we need to face up to the future challenges of the UK economy,

In next couple of years, the deal puts P&G at a disadvantage. They'll be inwardly focused. The integration challenge here is massive. That's an opportunity for competitors.

Lilly Singh

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I never worked as hard as I did at Duquesne. Never. There are challenges everywhere.

I guess we've given them the second-best challenge of anybody.

Carla Hall

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

Carla Gugino

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

Buzz Aldrin

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

Jared Harris

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

Jared Leto

The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jane Powell

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

Jane McGonigal

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Ethan Zuckerman

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Ernest Cline

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Kyle Kinane

I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.

Glenn Close

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.

Gillian Anderson

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

Jessica Capshaw

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Jean de la Bruyere

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.