Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Kotowski

Our schools are very pleased with the results.

Richard Parsons

Overall, I'm pleased with the results from most of our businesses,

Kelly Svebek

I think they (teachers) are real pleased overall. This time of year, there's a lot of wondering.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

Rob Parish

I was really pleased with that considering we raced all 5A teams.

Gerald Perry

I was really pleased. I was very pleased to be honest. He could've done a lot more, but it was the first day.

Frank Allocco

I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.

Mike Dowd

I was pleased we competed well. We fought; that made a difference.

P. J. Harvey

I was pleased that she had upheld the work that we had done.

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Paul Otellini

Steve, I wanted to report that Intel's ready.

Margaret Mellon

Over all, I thought the report was devastating.

Mark Pervan

Other than that, it was a solid report with no real surprises.

Floyd Abrams

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.