Famous Quotes & Sayings

That was a crucial score for us before the half. I kind of stuck my neck out there by going for two, but once we converted it put them in a position where they had to score twice.

That's what it will take to move, but that's not even counting the estimated $500,000 it's going to cost to convert the station into a museum.

Really, we failed to convert and in the second half there was no execution. For Essex, they played a great game. Our defense was lackluster, but they just out-played us.

I think that was the big difference because they just dominated on the boards. We had trouble scoring. We didn't get very many good shots and when we did, we didn't convert them.

New converts feel they have to prove themselves. Those who seek more extreme ways of proving themselves can become extraordinarily easy prey to manipulation.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

The ex-players tend to convert lean mass into adipose fat, and the heart is really being taxed.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Cynthia Kenyon

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Nikola Tesla

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

We played with better intensity on defense in the second quarter. Plus, we converted on their turnovers. Overall, I'd say we played good defense.

When you shoot 11-for-24 from the free throw line, you're not brimming with confidence. It was the first thing we talked about in the locker room after the game. It's a different game if we knock down and convert some free throws. We have nobody to blame, that's us.

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.

Zubin Mehta

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

Tom Hollander

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

Tim Wise

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

We have to work, we can?t rest on any possession, we have to give maximum effort. We got some loose balls, we got on the offensive glass. We were able to convert on those hustle plays.

Barbara Mandrell

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

Victor Ponta

How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

The problem - the greatest inefficiency of the process - is that you also wind up with a substantial quantity of medium-weight products that are not useful and you are stuck with them. What we are now able to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

Paul Young

We dominated the first half and still did not convert chances. But we just have to keep on working hard and go on to the next game.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

We played pretty well. There were some shots that we need to be able to convert that we didn't.

Eric Heitmann

I think our problem right now is that we're not getting the opportunity to run. What we need to do is convert on third downs. That's something that's been our emphasis this week.

We fouled them as much as we could in the fourth quarter. But we failed to convert when they missed them.

We couldn't find the groove for our shooting tonight. They out hustled us and we couldn't convert their turnover into points for us.

One of the things we haven't converted yet is news, but we're experimenting in Raleigh (N.C.) and a few other locales.