Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Clare Boothe Luce

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Dalai Lama

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

Brian Lane

We're comfortable with what we've accomplished so far. Maybe we won't be as tight going into the game.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

Anna Netrebko

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Anna Netrebko

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

Rutina Wesley

Every morning, I'm visited by hummingbirds. I think it's nice, but maybe they're planning an attack?

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

I said I want to wear a hat. Maybe I'll put it on.

Dusty Baker

I said, 'Well, maybe you need to read it.

That doesn't sound good. Maybe there is something we can do.

My whole recording studio, tons of music, a lot of original scores that I can't ever get back, maybe 50 or 60 tunes I spent years working on all gone,

I won maybe three times with that. It really shows my flexibility.

Howard Gordon

I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

David Beckham

I went through a tough time for maybe three years after that,

Michael Showalter

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

I will say the mayor was very disappointed.

I was just trying to stay even par or maybe 1-over on the back 9. I thought that would probably get it done after the way I played on the front.

I think they'll keep raising the rate this month and maybe every month until the end of the year.

Tom Renney

I think they've been a little tight, maybe now they'll be able to skate freer.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

I think we had the need, but just maybe it wasn't a strong picture,

I think we're better than people maybe thought. I really do,

I think we're talking a minimum of 20 years and maybe 30 since something like this happened.

I think we've got some tough kids. Maybe they weren't showing it. Through his conditioning and off-season work, he's made them tougher.

Dorian Missick

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.