Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chet Gladchuk

Paul has delivered a level of professionalism, knowledge and focus to a program that truly needed a jump start, ... He has accepted the challenge and the entire Navy community is realizing the rewards.

John Taylor

Payments for expired parking meter tickets, will be accepted as canned goods.

Dick Cheney

Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that the United States accepted now more than two years ago. September 11, 2001 changed everything for this country.

Ismail Haniyeh

Such a plan definitely won't be accepted by the Palestinian people or the Palestinian government.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

Fred Diaz

Some have accepted the challenge, and some have not. Those that have risen to the challenge have gotten our business.

Jake Sinclair

Some games I'll make a shot and get the team going or other games I might not need to take a shot. That's my role, and I've accepted that.

Bruce Rohde

Our preliminary findings indicate that certain conduct at UAP circumvented generally accepted accounting practices and violated ConAgra Foods' corporate policy, ... Those actions will not be tolerated.

Daniel Greenberg

Our students get a good education here, and those who are highly motivated to go to college get accepted without the letters of recommendation.

Robert Corn

Our patience was good as it's been all year long. We were very deliberate and converted at the end. We were good at running the shot clock and then getting something productive at the end.

Henry Schacht

Our team is working around the clock to restore an American icon.

Paige Sheehan

Our crews are working around the clock and other utilities are assisting.

Chris Kempf

Our clock management is where we need a little improvement. We had a nine-point lead in the third quarter, and we weren't being patient enough. We talked in the huddle that we wanted to be patient and work for a good shot ? not necessarily stalling. But there was no reason to take a 3-point shot or a jumper when you have that kind of cushion.

Jason Gore

I was a little worried when the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, going into a new year. That's what makes golf a great game. You're only as good as the last shot you hit. You move on from there, and hopefully get off to a good start this week, see what happens.

Pam Munger

I was a little concerned when I looked up and there was 6:20 on the clock an Courtney had two fouls. I thought it was going to be a long night. ... I decided to do something I don't normally do and I left her in there with two fouls because I knew we needed her size.

Ben Smith

I think they're ready to except the responsibility of being the leaders of this team. The natural feeling for players is to hang on too long. But time marches on. We're setting the clock to players that are playing at the highest level right now.

Otis Smith

Jerry Reynolds was trying to dribble the clock out because he didn't know Scott was closing in on the record. But then Reynolds ended up scoring the goal to give Scott the record.

Stu Jackson

The 3 has become a real focal point of offenses, and we would like to turn the clock back and see what the game is like without it,

Jim Volk

People like the plan. It doesn't mean that the Dow's going straight to 9,000, but this could be relatively helpful for the market.

Ronnie Brown

I think it was still helpful having someone else in the backfield.

Arlen Specter

I think we can get materials which will be helpful to us,

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Patricia Wright

One of the things I think we were helpful in doing was getting some exposure.

Scott Weiss

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

Charlize Theron

She's very private, but she was incredibly helpful to me,

Bootsy Collins

We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.

Ashley Wagner

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Bill Young

I find it interesting that some people would position the sales tax initiative with this. It's simply not true.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.

Gray Davis

If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.

Jan Murphy

No other teacher has ever taken that kind of initiative with Kevin.

John Carlson

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912,

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

John Tinker

Peace is the right approach. War is the wrong approach.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Javier Solana

Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire,

Jan Pronk

Peace is being jeopardized in the short run.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love! Peace and love! Peace and love!

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ron Johnson

Rest in Peace, Brother, you will be missed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

Bob Elliston

Our old surface required significant repairs during the off-season. That's a process that can take several weeks. We don't have to do that now. The surface maintains its uniformity.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Valery Nesterov

It is an unpleasant episode, but the IPO preparation process is not going to stop because of it.

Stephen Moore

It is an ugly bill. This is the legislative process at its worst.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Jim Robb

I think this will keep that process on hold.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Alberto Fujimori

It is my purpose to remain temporarily in Chile, as part of the process for my return to Peru,

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Cornel West

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth