Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hesiod

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Bruce McCulloch

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

Bashar al-Assad

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

Andrew Stanton

There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

Buzz Osborne

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

Bahman Ghobadi

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

Banks

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

Anthony Carmona

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

We have to close it down because we can no longer ensure the safety of our patients or our staff in that hospital.

Kobe Bryant

This was a must win for us. We played well the entire trip, but it's just that we weren't able to close things out. Tonight was a win that we desperately needed.

This was a hard fought win that moved us up another step closer to our goal of having a home playoff game.

There is really nobody to communicate with right now on this issue, because Americans are not plugged into it. I think Americans feel one or two steps removed from the Supreme Court, particularly when the confirmation process hasn't started. But as you get closer to the hearing and the vote, the volume on this thing is going to ramp way up.

There is only one relevant transaction, anything that's even close to this, and that's the Skyway deal. We are talking about, how do you operate something that's already built?

The parking spot was designated because one student was disabled, but could still walk to class. He just needed to have a parking spot closer to the buildings.

The parish president made the decision that he wouldn't risk the lives of the pump station operators, and we evacuated those people to the shelter closest to us, ... You want to know who's responsible for the flooding? Katrina's responsible.

This reflects a move into other traditional media where there's a lot more money circulating. It moves them closer to this goal of being a comprehensive, one-stop ad-buying platform for any media.

This show, by all intents and purposes, should have closed on the 21st. But if we get them in, they will spread the word. I'm positive.

To be able to come close and lose by nine and to be in control and lead was a good thing for us. But we'll get better." ()

Ben Wallace

When you get the opportunity to close a team out, you just have to come out with a lot of energy early. You just have to go out there and withstand some of their energy, play through it, and hopefully they'll wear themselves down.

Jarome Iginla

When you get that close and then you hear the other team, the other fans celebrating to 'Simply The Best' and 'We Are The Champions', that hurt. It hurt a lot. We didn't know who was holding the Cup, but each time someone else took it, you could hear the fans go nuts. We're just sitting there, soaking all of this in and imagining what it would feel like ... if it was us.

When you get a close game, you don't want controversy. I'm very confident in our officials.

Chris Paul

When you find yourself down 21 after one half, that's a pretty big hill to come back from. However, I felt our kids battled all the way to the end and never gave in. The score ends up a little closer than it should have been, but that's a credit to our kids not giving up.

Jeff Steele

When you have that, you're most likely going to win. We played pretty close to 32 minutes tonight. I thought Tuesday we played about 16.

When you have so many cultures living together in a close space, you have problems.

When you haven't won a lot of close games, you have to find a way to win. We battled through, got it done and that was important for us.

Nan Aron

When you practice with people, there's a desire to close ranks.

When you play teams that are close to you, you always have good games with them. You know what to expect, you've played each other so many times over the years, kids get to be familiar with each other and they're not intimidated.

Brian Kelly

When you play teams at 1 o'clock, in the heat, that's not used to being in this weather, you should be able to close teams out and win games.

There are a couple of races that weekend for us to look at, ... If we can get a prep in, I wouldn't want it to be any closer than two weeks before the Breeders' Cup. The 14th or the 15th would be an ideal scenario. It's just a matter of figuring out if he's ready to do it, and, if so, what race we want to go in.

Ron Moody

There are literally hundreds ... of legitimate public right of ways closed to public use.

There are indications that it will not happen on schedule but we hope very much that it would be as close to on schedule as possible, ... I think that it's important for the Israelis to move forward on the deployment.

We always talk about at halftime, you've got to come out strong in the fourth quarter of close games. You've got to get it in your opponent's mind there's no way you're going to let them get back in the game.

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