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.

Mack Brown

Reggie Bush is like an instant highlight film. It's fun to watch him. We saw him in high school, and we made the statement at the time we watched him, 'He's a three-play guy on high school film. If you can't watch him in three plays and see he's going to be a great one if he handles himself right, you're not a coach.' He was a three-play guy.

Maurice Drew

Reggie Bush is a great guy and I mean no disrespect to anyone. But my goal is to be the No.1 pick.

Dave Roberts

Reggie Bush and the RBV All-Stars. Those guys definitely are at the top of my list for 2005.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.

Bill Maher

President Bush was on the ground all day today - you saw him there hugging the starving and touring the devastated area,

Trent Duffy

President Bush wants the troops home as soon as possible, but the U.S. will not cut and run from terrorists.

Gene Sperling

President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.

Harry Reid

President Bush should forget about privatizing Social Security,

Rudi Giuliani

President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that it is,

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Dave McCullough

Starting in 2000, we started having problems with customers turning to China, and then all of a sudden our production costs started going up and up. Basically, since 2000, we've been in a constant decline.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Brad Zigler

Some people are unable to get over their prejudices. The culprit is the constant characterization of options as gambling.

Drew DiPippo

Overall our defense has been a general constant for us. We've only given up more than 50 points in one or two games. Certainly, we could still improve at it.

David Novak

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

Isiah Thomas

Other than David Robinson I don't know if I've met a classier individual in the NBA.

Michael Goulde

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot. This gives David the slingshot.

Michael Goulde

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot, ... This gives David the slingshot.

Mark Granger

We need some other guys to step up to help David out.

E. Hurley

I think David is at peace with his own game now. He was too worried about himself and worried about others. He's a very quiet kid who doesn't say much. Maybe early on, he wasn't comfortable being a leader. But I think he feels good about who he is right now.

Norman Lear

I think David E. Kelley, with his new deal, is vastly underpaid,

Kurt Melton

I think David (Bendall) did a nice job defensively on him.

Phil Morrison

My mother and Myra Doernberg, the mother of our production designer, David Doernberg, were the utility infielders on the team,

Jack Roberts

It doesn't feel like we're Goliath, it feels like we're David in this matter.

Bill Gates

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.

Larry Spell

Some of these problems are the result of planning decisions made decades ago.

Wayne King

It is a picture postcard lost for eight decades in the mail.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

John Ortberg

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

Preston Burch

I think two more decades of flight is a real possibility for Hubble,

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Joe Donahue

It comes as a surprise to no one that after decades of internal and international conflict, Iraq is littered with land mines and bombs.

Donna Lopiano

I think the public's more understanding now of the gay and lesbian issue. It's much more sophisticated than it was two or three decades ago.

Ulysses Yannas

Some of us were looking for $175 million in digital earnings.

Nicki Zongrone

Retail is actually the fastest growing segment of digital printing right now.

Laura Martin

Piracy has stabilized and strong online digital sales should reinvigorate earnings growth.

Susan Adams

Manchester is a microcosm for what we do in the whole division. It's the place we often go to first for launching new products like digital phone or a high-speed upgrade. It's a well-run system where people are collaborative and go the extra mile.

Hector Ruiz

We need real solutions, not examples of technology for technology's sake, not digital pies in the sky, ... tech utopia.

Jack Kilby

I think they now have a very good position. Their digital signal processing is right in the mainstream of the future development.

John Hogan

I think this allows us to play in the digital world. It is an important entree for us. The radio industry has collaborated and cooperated to work together to make this roll out as meaningful for consumers.

Matthew Stern

Guests can actually order a show or movie, press pause, leave their room and come back and pick up where they left off. Digital is so flexible, it is amazing.

George Packer

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

Marlin Fitzwater

I think this has a pervasive impact on how he conducts foreign policy on a number of levels. There's a perception the president is distracted and in trouble.

Mikhail Kasyanov

There is more than a month before the inauguration, and people mustn't get distracted from work by these thoughts,

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?re doing so that part of your mind needs to be distracted from what otherwise would become boring.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Virat Kohli

In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.

Sadie Jones

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

Karin Slaughter

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Theo James

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Richard Butler

He is now misleading the world's public, and I find that sad, wrong and frankly, a touch dangerous,

M. Thompson

They are deliberately misleading the public to put the teachers in an unprofessional light.

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

Juanita Longwell

I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.

Jonathan Cain

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Charles Braun

It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.

Christian Cooke

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

Shonda Rhimes

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Bill Cosby

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.