Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Mark Mellman

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Richard Cripps

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

William Cotton

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Bill Dudley

Past transitions at the Fed have often been accompanied by volatile financial markets.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

Brian Garvey

That could lead the Fed to soften their statement tomorrow.

Zach Lund

Our federation has been through hell these last few weeks. We need to get past all this and start to think only about the Olympics for a little while.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Gary Player

I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.

Kevin Cunningham

We are working on something. We are still working out our situation. We are working and grinding right now.

Orlando Hudson

We've got to keep grinding and stay on top of it. . . . The tide will turn for us, and we'll get it going. It's right around the corner.

Tom Sawyer

At 1-2, I wasn't grinding on the kids about performance or anything like that. It was about recovery. It was about understanding who we're playing and where we are with the program and where we want to go. It was about motivating to rebuild.

Casey FitzRandolph

That's a man's race. You'll have guys really going for it, really grinding it out.

Barry Ritholtz

There's still upside in tech but it's going to be more grudging and grinding and choppy, it's not going to be this moon shot that we saw a year ago.

Mike Sweeney

We've really been grinding it out, and now we are starting to click. It takes the pressure off the pitchers.

E. Hicks

We just need to keep grinding and hope they don't have a 52 percent shooting night because they're going to mostly be 3s.

Pat Flannery

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Scarlet Knights

Stay on her, ... You go where she goes.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Laime Contreras

I was just trying to concentrate on each point. I was like, 'This is 5-2 - we can't get any worse.' So I was just trying to stay focused.

Dave McCullough

It is a readjustment. We're going to stay here and I think we will survive this, but it won't be easy." ()

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Dick Umile

I think if we all stay healthy, we'll all keep going.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think he thought I was going on my backhand but I stayed with my forehand.

Juan Rincon

I thought I would never see him again, ... We have been able to stay together through baseball.

Reggie Myles

I'm still trying to get them to come up and stay with me, but they won't,

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.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Aleister Crowley

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.