Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Alain de Botton

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Mike went out there and didn't do a good job. I'm not sure where we're going to go for the No. 3 starter. It's up for someone to step up.

Mo (Maurice) had an unfortunate injury. But because he was such a talented athlete, his junior video provided people enough to get a good look at him.

Molly and Lauren played well back on defense. We did a good job, but it wasn't enough.

Chauncey Billups

Milwaukee shoots a lot of jump shots and our big guys do a good job of getting the rebounds. We're able to make some long outlet passes and we have the guys who can get out fast. Then we're off to the races.

Milton is usually very good at home, so to come in here and get a win is big. We haven?t done as well as we?d like on the road, so this is a big win for us.

Jenny Eclair

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Mr. Lanier put up a pretty good presentation. In my personal opinion, Merck wasn't doing the right thing by marketing the drug the way they were.

Mr. Holthus has done a really good job. I had a lot of horse under me. He's a horse that has some tactical speed; he rates real kindly for me.

John Cena

MTV don't play music no more, so I don't know if we can do that, but we're going to really try to knock it down with this one, ... It's a great song, it sends a good message. It sends that message to people that you always don't have to be a gun-totin', mean mother ... we're all human beings.

Mr. Williams was having a good time with a woman who was 100 percent consenting.

Mount Pleasant was a very good team tonight. Their starters were very good. We couldn't get people to step up and get other people scoring.

Mountain View normally doesn't make mistakes like that, but when they did I thought our guys did a good job getting the runs in.

Motorola has always had problems with speed to market. They haven't done a good job with refreshing their product lines.

McLain is a good shooter. He looked up, saw what was there and saw the goalie was off the line and hit the upper part of the net. He didn't try to kill it, just placed it.

McKinley has been doing some good things. But there's still a lot of work to be done. That's the way it is with all of these guys.

(McCutcheon) did a good job. They just took it to us. There wasn't much we could do. They wanted it and we didn't." ()

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

Maurice is a good player. Maurice is a big play guy for us.

Matt's played great. He's got a lot of tools: good speed, good size and a strong, level head. I trust Matt's judgment on any play call. He's a lot more comfortable with what we do (than last year).

Matt's got a good poker face. You can't tell what's going on.

Maybe we've had more problems with them than other teams have, but that's a reflection more on us. We just haven't been as good as they have been as a team.

Maybe we started getting into the hype, like we're good. When we didn't know if we were good or not, that's when we were really working hard to prove it.

Maybe we're good pitchers, you ever think of that?

Maybe we're getting a new respect, and maybe that's a good thing.

Jaromir Jagr

Maybe we are not good enough yet. Maybe we're not there. Maybe it shouldn't surprise anybody. I thought we played good 5-on-5; the power play and the penalty kill, that's where we made our mistakes. Could we have won the game? Yes. But we lost it. I don't think we are worse than they are. Maybe we're not as talented.

Jim McDermott

Medicare would just become for old, sick people at the end of life. And I don't think that's a good system ... I don't think that's the way I want to treat seniors in this country.

Frank Robinson

Mechanically, he looked OK out there on the mound. All in all it was a good outing.

Deborah Moggach

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

Jose Contreras

Me and Roger had a very good relationship,

Mike McCoy

Me and Brendan are pretty good buddies. I want him to get healthy. But I'll take my at-bats when I get them." ()