Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

The key is to keep putting pressure on them. We did what we had to do. We executed two double steals and created situations (offensively).

The unintended consequence to disaster is more vulnerability, created by a culture of expectation that government will always be there to make us whole.

The trouble with plenty of talk in and around the G8 summit was that it created an abstraction - the Problem of Poverty in Africa.

These are fairly well-paying jobs, and they're the kinds of jobs that are created when other services are doing well. It's a good sign for the economy that sector is contributing to growth. That tells me the economy is on its feet.

These are circumstances created by a sustained high oil price scenario -- the level of which was unexpected by everyone. At this point, everyone knows high energy prices are positive for the communities of Midland and Odessa while being a negative for everyone else in other communities.

This has created tensions. They are underlying, they're not out on the surface, but they are there.

All helmets are not created equal. There are different helmets for different sports.

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

A.R. Baron was created and existed for no other reason than to line the pockets of its executives and employees at the expense of unsuspecting members of the investing public, ... Today's indictment depicts an investment firm totally out of control.

An honest mistake was made which created a very unfortunate situation.

A new hero is created when a spaceflight is launched. I want to create more private-space-travel heroes in China.

A new hero is created when a spaceflight is launched, ... I want to create more private-space-travel heroes in China.

A security zone is being created sufficient to guarantee security.

Right now we have a really nice balance. With Schultz in the game, it made their defense come out and that created openings. Lots of girls had good games.

Praise the Lord and Master, who, having created this play, beholds it.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

Say what you want about (goals) three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine, but the first two killed us. Once again, you look up and it's 14 minutes to go in the first period and we've dug a hole. Nothing went right for us and everything went right for them, but at the same time they created nine goals. They played hard. We have to stand up to that better.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Mike McCarthy

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

John Galbraith

Production only fills a void that it has itself created

Our defensive pressure created a lot of offensive opportunities.

Our defensive effort was good from the opening tip and that's something we've focused on in practice all week. We had a few breakdowns at Massachusetts, which was unlike us. It was a good week to focus on the defensive end. We created a lot of havoc, a lot of turnovers.

Our defense was real solid. As a team, it was our most solid game of the season from front to back. Everybody was playing strong -- we didn't have any weak links. We spread the field and created a lot of scoring opportunities.

Our defense was really solid tonight. We were moving our feet and getting to the glass. Our defense created this win.

Steve Johnson

Our existing system had served us well in the past but there were a number of reliability and support issues and it was also starting to reach its limits in terms of expandability. At the end of 2004, we started a four-stage selection process with an invitation to tender from which we created an initial list of eight different products from 12 potential suppliers.

People forgot that God created all of us and everybody lives and breathes and eats alike. Thank God that we are where we are today.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

The momentum was with us. We had it after that penalty kick. We created our chances. But for her to take that kind of a shot and surprise the goalkeeper like that, you could see our whole team get up and get ready to go.

There's been theories all the way from, 'Has the tsunami ... hurricanes and the effect of environmental factors created mold levels that are unprecedented? Right now, we're trying to deal with the close-in factors of ensuring we don't have a formula problem or a contamination problem in our manufacturing facilities. And nothing indicates that we do.

Sigi Schmid

There's been a lot of pressure on Danny to be successful immediately and I think that's been unfair to him. It's created pressure and I think unrealistic expectations that he feels he's failed to live up to. I think if everyone just leaves him alone, I think he'll be fine.