Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Day

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Geno Auriemma

With Brittany, you're not quite sure what level she's at. She hasn't been able to practice much since the Big East tournament. It took a little toll on her. But even if she can play in a limited role, at least we have someone in the lane who can counteract some of the teams we can play. But how much, I don't know.

Steve Bloomfield

We think the forum is being hijacked by the private sector and we're here to counteract that.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

John Rother

Still, none of these discount programs can counteract the full impact of these price increases. Even with the discounts, these prices are hurting people.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Martin Gleeson

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

David Conley

There are a lot of gangs now in the county. You can tell them by their clothing, and by tattoos.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Al Capone

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Greg Owen

If we're going to be involved in leadership work, we not only have to teach, we have to learn. And we need to work vigorously to remove the reasons that gangs exist.

Julie Myers

Transnational street gangs pose a growing public safety threat to urban and rural communities throughout the United States. Their violence, sophistication and scope have reached intolerable levels.

Kareem Evans

A sense of friends is important, to be a part of something. Many of them that are in gangs aren't into anything else. Most of those who are in gangs don't play sports or are in any after-school activities.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Bill Murray

Be available for life to happen.

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tom Pecora

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Cathy Freeman

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Cass Sunstein

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.

Albert Einstein

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

Chris Matthews

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

Chris Hayes

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.

Carly Fiorina

Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, by his own admission.

Jim Cramer

They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is no cyberworld where reach trumps profits.

John Neff

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

Ted Nugent

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

William Shakespeare

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.