Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some teams will have to clean up old messes, but frankly, once that's done we shouldn't be losing money anymore.

So they're all scurrying around cleaning up these sites the same way as if the neighbors were coming over for dinner.

So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.

One game will be played, then the gymnasium will be cleared. This gives our people time to clean up before the second game begins.

James Blake

On clay, his serve still isn't a weapon, but he can back it up really well. Here, he wasn't able to do that. I was able to hit a couple of clean winners off of first serves, and that can rattle you early.

Wayne Allard

Now isn't the time to be firing anyone. It's the time to be focusing on helping people, ... We will have plenty of opportunity at a later date to review what happened and to take the appropriate steps at that time. We need to focus on rebuilding, getting clean drinking water restored, getting kids in school and those priorities.

Do your country one last service and cleanse it of the suspicion that shady figures influenced German policy for years, ... morally discredited.

Gordon Strachan

Delighted with the win, delighted with the performance and delighted with the clean sheet.

George Williams

The team is looking a lot better. We have some timing issues cleaned up. This is the week we're just going to put it all together.

Rafael Benitez

The team has a lot of confidence in games. We know we can concede goals and still win matches. But it would be good to go in front and keep a clean sheet in these games instead.

The support for cleaning this up, I have to tell you, is overwhelming. And it is about time we got on with the job of cleaning up the waterfront and making it a productive place for all Australians.

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

I've always felt like we could win, ... but in the past I've looked in some of the guys' faces and it looked like they weren't too confident. We cleaned those guys up out of here, and we have some guys who are going to fight until the whistle blows.

I wanted to find a cleaner fuel to power diesel engines.

Sometimes you need a different face. It just wipes the slate clean and they feel better about themselves.

William Hazlitt

So society, when out of order, which it is whenever the interests of the many are regularly and outrageously sacrificed to those of the few, must be repaired, and either a reform or a revolution cleanse its corruptions and renew its elasticity.

Ozzie Guillen

Sometimes when you win the World Series you clean the house and get a new team. It's not easy, no matter what you do. (General manager) Kenny Williams has given us a good shot to repeat.

David Allen

Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks.

It was uninhabitable, ... I needed to clean it out so that the contractor could come in. When the students heard that I was going to get a crew to do the cleanup, they volunteered.

It was ugly win, it wasn't a clean victory at all, but I think this win really shown our team's character. I give it up to all the younger guys. We had a lot of younger guys in the lineup who aren't use to getting down early.

It was very close, but it was on me to make a clean run. If it's on you, it's no problem because all you have to do is make a good run and it's done. It's in your hands and that's better than if it's out of your hands.

It was very close, but in my opinion it was a clean, legal hit. It's just an unfortunate one. Vince was in a very vulnerable position, and Weatherford made a very clean hit.

It was a nice, clean game. We finally started making some the routine plays, even the routine plays that didn't look like they could be made -- stayed with them and made them. Mental focus has been a problem for us.

It was an evenly matched game, a hard-fought, clean game. The guys are elated and they should be.

Jerry Miller

It was a lot cleaner and a lot closer. It was a good move for me and my family.

The shelters here are clean and well-staffed and we're ready to take people in,

The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had a really neat 3-D quality to it without that fuzzy eyeball stuff.

The stay here was good. We cleaned up the program. I want to move on. I have no hard feelings. I forgive but never forget.

Susan Sontag

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

These men went to Kazakhstan seeking safety, but now face torture and imprisonment. The Kazakh government shares responsibility for their fate and must come clean about its role in their illegal detention and return.

The streets have been cleaned up and the protesters have escaped to the hills.

The stuff he did is just astronomical. He power cleaned as much (360 pounds) as our starting (offensive) tackle. That's a big number.

Norman Thomas

The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.