Famous Quotes & Sayings

This program allows states' leaders -- who are closest to the people -- to decide exactly how this grant money should be spent.

This process has kind of helped us close that gap.

This win was a good one to close out our home schedule with. We won at their place 6-0 last time, and we wanted to go out and show that we were an offensive team.

The rearing site is within a portion of the refuge previously closed to public entry to protect and minimize disturbance to wildlife.

Vicente Fox

There are those that with great shortsightedness think that the solution is to close themselves off and that the solution is to not compete in the markets,

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Lot of people are saying they hate to see it close down.

Vince Carter

Looks like he lost a little weight. Looks lighter, quicker on his feet. He's going to be a tough guy to stop. It's close to that time now, so I guess he's getting in playoff form.

Magnus Scheving

'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

Gerald Wallace

Last year, we had a lot of close games and couldn't hold onto leads and didn't know how to finish games. We've done a better job of that this year. Which shows improvement. Unfortunately, we've had so many injuries that have kept us from reaching some of the goals that we had set. Like making the playoffs.

Last year, we'd hang close in games, but we couldn't put together those big plays when we needed them. We'd been getting them from our passing game this year, and today we got it from the running game.

Jarome Iginla

Learning to play in big games, Game 7 and Game 6, all of it is a whole different level. It's different hockey, it's great hockey. On the other side of it, we were that close (to winning the Cup), (so) we're hungry. To get that close and hear the other team celebrating, and know it could have been us, that does enter your mind.

Many people are drawn to this game. We were the first club in Illinois, and now there are close to eight.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Many people will move here and self-select here because they want to be close to Metro.

Many workers who are closer to retirement can be tempted to consume rather than save.

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Andrew Mitchell

Shareholders will not be happy with anything close to the current offer.

Scott found a Superfund site vacant for many years and not on the tax rolls. It matched all our criteria. It's close to transmission lines and highways.

Settle entered in a really tough spot. Closer is a tough job; you're either the hero or the goat, no in-between. He did a good job in that situation.

Sears has had a very different problem from Kmart, ... Our service and products are as good as our competitors but they're not where our customers are. This now gives us the opportunity to grow off-mall locations closer to the customer.

sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly.

John Malkovich

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

So few people have seen a kangaroo up close or in the wild and the more we worked with them, the more fascinated we became,

Michael Hitchcock

So it's sand in the hour glass now. And the closer it gets, the better it is for us.

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere. But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

She was very close to hitting that one. She was feeling it at that point.

She was really close to all the kids. She was in the gym on Monday. She was a great kid and such a hard worker. She was always the first one in the gym. She was really smart and ran my scout team. She was just an incredible person. We're really going to miss her.

She was like a mother to me, too. I was pretty close to her.

She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia and Sara are really close to my heart because I've coached them since the sixth grade. I was their grade school coach.

E. O. Wilson

She's right there, right there with it. Seeing death, up close and personal.