Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Smith

They have more money than I do. They are already speaking the same language I am. I decided I could direct my energies and my ideas in a different direction.

There's a lot of pressure on our quarterback. We run a no-huddle offense, and he makes all the line calls. He decides which direction our runs go.

If weather will decide the game, and I don't think it will, it would favor the home team.

I fully expect that when the Fed decides to put an end to rate hikes they will give us notice,

If you focus on making money, then you will fail because you must decide to focus on making a difference in people's lives in to order earn the right to be financially free.

If you decide to do something else instead of soil erosion, there may not be enough money left over to do other things. You will have to decide.

Charles Schumer

If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden, sir, is on you.

Shirley Hufstedler

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

Mike Harris

If you own an establishment, you should be able to decide if you have it or not. That's part of living in a free country.

E. O. Wilson

In this business, trades are something that happen. I've been traded before. I was traded over to Pittsburgh. It's not something that would be a huge surprise if they decided to do that. If it happens, it happens.

Susanna Kearsley

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

In the first half, I only took one shot. In the second half, I found myself open a lot and just decided to shoot it.

In the early part of the year, we're trying to develop a pitching staff. There was really never even a second thought (leaving him in). It was in the plans that he would throw three innings and move on from there. He threw so few pitches, we decided to give him one more. We've got to get some innings to some other kids because we really think we're going to need everybody.

In the interest of the credibility of the reform agenda, and in the interest of the general public, we have decided to take some decisive steps.

Instead of sitting around and moping about it, we decided to do something about it.

In our re-funding we decided not to go with that arrangement partly because the schools didn't want to.

Ehud Barak

In order to receive a new mandate from the nation for the way in which I lead ... I decided to submit my resignation,

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

Amelia Warner

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

Barbara Thompson

I pursued him for the job. He saw the times the people gave me a hard time and he wasn't sure he wanted to put himself in that position. In the end, he realized the party needed him. He knew he could do the job and he decided to take it on.

Investors had to decide this (Monday) morning whether last week's rally was real or just a knee-jerk reaction to the previous week's losses.

Investigators are moving fast. They may have found some lead before they decided to round up suspects for questioning.

Steve Fossett

In the middle of the night we decided it was a hopeless situation,

In the '90s the government decided that any profits made on a property were tax-free up to $500,000.

If you saw one salvage spark in Donald Young's relationship with his two daughters, you can decide to spare his life.

If you start with an application that people may or may not decide to use, you'll have a hard time getting adoption.

Joe Girardi

If you're trying to decide if you want to keep playing, if that's what the issue is, maybe he doesn't want any outside influences to make up his mind. When you have things that are going on in your head, a lot of times people don't think rationally.

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time

Robert Krulwich

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

I gave it a lot of thought, and I talked it over with my family. I got a lot of great support from people in the community, but after talking to my wife and family, we just decided it would take too much time away from my family.

In my mind, it's a simple decision, ... You decide you're going to play Monday or decide you're going to play the game. If we felt like it would be unfair to our student-athletes and not safe for our student-athletes, we were prepared to forfeit the game.

In addition, our sales force is getting smarter about how to sell in this environment. Finally, high (return on investment) projects around e-business can only get delayed so long before management decides they need to press ahead.

Dascha Polanco

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to go for the health field, where there were stable jobs.