Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was not an easy fire to contain because it was running so fast.

James Smith

It was luck, partly. The other reason is the anticipation that inflation would be contained and that continued rate increases from the Federal Reserve would keep longer-maturity investors enthused about their returns.

Kenneth Starr

The report contained pages of pornographic detail and damning commentary.

They're a tricky team and they're going to test us. We just have to find a way to contain them.

If we can contain those two guys, you never know what might happen.

If you had an open container on the train yesterday, you would receive the summons. It's the same summons.

If you look at it from a shareholder perspective, it's a good short-term move, since there is a difficult container shipping market now and it makes CSX a pure rail play, ... Five years from now, when container shipping goes through its cycle, there may be second thoughts. But given what's going on now, sure, it's a good move.

Inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the edge of the solar system that truly contains star dust.

In our defense, he's got contain a majority of the time. He hasn't missed many assignments.

Dana Rohrabacher

In times of emergency, it is responsible to increase the power of our government, yet we recognize that these powers should contain sunset provisions.

In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for pharmaceuticals.

Carter's the key to their offense and we knew we had to contain him and put a solid lick on him to keep him from running free. He made us pay with big plays, but he's real good at that.

I felt that it was more contained ... and I didn't see as many people that I felt were out of control as I've seen in previous years.

I don't think we communicated as well as we should have. A few times, we got mixed-up. We just didn't do a good job containing them on the perimeter.

He's got a nice little stiff-arm that he throws at you and he'll really make you work. But if we just play our defense, we'll be able to contain him, if not stop him.

David Greene

Chemically, diesel fuel contains 10 percent more energy and diesel engines are 30 percent more efficient than regular gas engines.

Tim Vine

But I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

Mads Mikkelsen

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

I like the image that each droplet of water contains the DNA of this planet.

Jason Terry

He's similar to Iverson, McGrady and Kobe as where, if they get in a rhythm by going to the free-throw line, then they start to hit jump shots. We were able to contain him and keep him off the line. It was a long night for him.

Richard Flanagan

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Brian McGrattan

He's pretty strong, that's how he wins his fights, by overpowering guys. To actually hold him out and contain him, I felt pretty good about it.

He's real quick. And we have a tendency to make people look better. He runs well and I think he'd rather run than pass. If we don't contain him, he'll run right over us.

I don't know if you can totally stop her. We contained her. We frustrated her tonight and we threw some junk defense at her and I thought that was the difference in the game.

Peter Roebuck

It is over. A supremacy that lasted a long time and contained many glories is on its last legs,

Sandy Alderson

It's virtually impossible to contain the impact of smoking within a limited area, so this is a logical extension of our no-smoking policy and reflection of input we've received from our fans.

It takes us three days to produce our premium dog food (a chicken-based product containing 26 percent protein) and on the fourth day it is delivered fresh to your doorstep. None of our competitors can do that.

They write to me as if I'm one of their friends, one of their buddies. Students write some messages that contain swear words.

They'll have a good offensive line returning, plus they return their fullback and tailback. Their offense is similar to DeWitt's. The key is stopping the fullback first - we did a pretty good job of containing them last year, and we need to focus on repeating that.

They like to get out and run, so we had to get back and contain them, and I think we did a good job.

They've probably got some of the top forwards in the game. We've just got to contain them. We have to play a grinding, hard, tight style and show that we can win the one-goal games.

They've got those two perimeter shooters and three elite big guys; it's hard to contain all five of them. They hit too many threes.

David Chase

It may be that in two or three or four years I could be sitting around and get an idea for a really great 'Sopranos' movie. I don't think that will happen. But if one morning somebody woke up and said this would make a really good, concise, contained 'Sopranos' story, I wouldn't rule that out.