Toll Quotations

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.

Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.

Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad's regime will ultimately fall from the heavy toll of the horrors it has spawned. From past experience with such regimes, this scenario is unlikely to happen.

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.

We value our employees and their safety is a top priority. We want them to know their WETCO/Church's family cares about them, and that's why we've created a toll free number for employees to contact the company to let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

We believe that the economic future of this corridor and the future success of the airport depend on a viable road and mass transit network. This will only happen if there is an investment in both improving the Dulles Toll Road and complementing that road with rail to Loudoun County.

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

We express our appreciation to the French Government and the four toll road companies for the grant.

With the new CBA, injuries are really going to take a toll on teams even more than before.

We knew when we lost those two there was going to be some games like this and it was going to take its toll on our bullpen. That's just the situation we're in.

Vernell was the heart and soul of our team. He brought leadership, experience, he brought a lot to the table. To see a guy like that go down takes a toll on the team.

What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. So, there's a lot of debate about the use of that money. And, of course, there's some debate about leasing the toll road itself.

We're a company that, historically, has done work on the Toll Road. We are not concerned about a private entity having control of the Toll Road.

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in Canada. However, we need to do more to make the most of this opportunity, which has the potential to significantly reduce the cancer burden in this country.

We're just going to keep looking forward. We have a tough stretch in front of us. We're playing all the top teams, except for Toll Gate (Feb. 10), over the next two weeks.

Many of us feel that the soul of Texas may be riding on this campaign. I would dearly love to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property tax.

Meat and alcoholic drinks take a heavy toll on man's health, causing many a disease in him.

My feeling is, we're confident that when people actually get the facts of what's going on, it's not hard to be against these toll roads.

One of the things that you generally see with the older guys is the injuries start to take their toll on them and they miss practice and that kind of affects their impact on the team, whereas for Rob, injury still isn't a factor for him.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

Right now I'm struggling. Pretty beat up. This match was rough, ... He made a lot of balls. We were both running each other side to side. Other two five set matches definitely didn't help this match out...definitely wasn't looking for another five-set match today. It takes its toll on the body. Luckily, I have two days off to get ready for Saturday's match.

One of the reasons it may have been done is to make it a little bit more difficult for the Toll takeover.

I wouldn't lose sight that Toll and Patrick can get together.

I don't feel that it's in our best interest to make up the game. I don't know how we can work that into our schedule. It's not like it's basketball or baseball. Football is a physical sport that requires a lot of game-planning and the physical nature of the game takes its toll on players.

I am delighted that Toll Brothers has agreed to support this landmark series, the longest running classical radio program in the history of American broadcasting.

I am pursuing college basketball and it's going to take a toll (playing football) between the time and the (possibility of) injury,

I feel fresh, I feel strong. Last year, I hit a wall physically and it took a toll at the plate. This year, I feel good.

For us, Asia has been an opportunity to grow our business. We believe we've got a very good model inside Toll to offer customers an integrated supply chain capability. We don't think that has been serviced very well right across Asia.

GM's success earlier this summer has really taken its toll on inventory levels for several models, limiting their ability to have another terrific month. And there appears to be relatively little momentum left in GM's employee discount incentive program now that it is in its third month.

If the bidders had offered the government a dollar for the Toll Road, it'd be a better deal. So to get $3.85 billion, that's phenomenal from a financial perspective.

Having Curtis on our mind during the North Carolina game, it took a toll on us. It might not have shown, but it took a toll on everyone from the coaches to the players. Coming into this year, we're just a year older and much more mature and we know that we have a job to do out there.

There is a human toll and an economic toll and the Street is currently weighing both of them.

What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before.

Going to see those cancer patients, that's a real humbling experience and it's taken a toll on me these past few days. It's made me appreciate life a little more. Now I'm trying to make every day count, every minute count. I'm showing everyone else that I really care. Everybody I see walking by, I'm just saying hello to them because I'm happy.

He's a lot stronger. Last year he lost weight and I think that took a toll on him at the end of the year because he didn't have the strength to fall back on.

He's a lot like (Tom) Landry. He went through the same thing. He got all the good players but didn't win the big one. That's tough to live with, and I think it had taken its toll on Mack.

We look forward to a speedy conclusion to the takeover and working with Paul Little and the Toll group to map out the future direction of Virgin Blue.

I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. I'm exhausted and I only played nine innings.

I think it's a good thing for our well being and also his well being. When we see him over there ranting and raving, it kind of pays a toll on our mind set.

I think it gives everybody a chance to just decompress from the night before. We're in the middle of October and physically, I think things begin to take a toll on guys. We had a somewhat leisurely day here ... it gives guys a little bit more of an opportunity to relax, go out to dinner and take a break from it.

I think it's huge for us at this point in the season. We're used to practicing at 7,000 feet and playing multiple days in a row at that altitude. The other teams have played here but it's only for one day. It can take a toll on you playing multiple days in a row.

I think the hope is that Washington has done its thing and has given money to the state. We just need to make sure that money gets to the people. People have a long way to go. The storm is still taking more of a toll on people than most realize.

It is going to be a very difficult process, I think the emotional toll is going to be substantial,

It is probably not a bad thing for somebody doing data entry, for instance, where the boredom and monotony of it takes a toll on performance.

I think we wore down a bit. It's tough to bang, rebound, defend and score. It took its toll on us. Plus, TJ stepped their game up.

I think Toll is more than Paul Little. I think they have a broader and more in-depth team behind them.

I think that would take a toll on the kids, asking them to get out of school early that much. Dealing with that many make up games would have made it difficult to keep up with their work.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

It is a traffic management device. It is done to expedite traffic. It is expensive to put in an electronic toll collection system.

I think there's every reason to believe that another jobless recovery could be in the offing in the years immediately ahead -- one that would take a comparable toll on consumer demand.

Last year, he just lost weight. And I think at the end of the year that kind of took a toll on him because he didn't have that strength that he used to, to fall back on. ... Shaq is motivated to do something better and help the team.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Over the last few months, these forces have taken their toll on activity, and evidence has accumulated that the economy has hit a soft patch,

Our primary concern had always been and clearly stated to be that east-west route and if Toll took over Patrick it would then have 100% of Pacific National.

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Our report identifies for the first time the severe, and previously hidden global toll of birth defects. This is a serious, vastly unappreciated and under-funded public health problem.

Patrick regards its prospect for growth in freight forwarding as greatly superior to Toll given that Toll is already the dominant supplier in this market with no significant prospects for future growth.

Part of their charge will be to ultimately find alternative revenue streams, and there are some out there. For example, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission this past year floated a (multi-million-dollar) bond that was available to communities up and down the Delaware River for various road improvements.

STDs continue to take a heavy toll on our nation's health,

That decline has taken a heavy toll on our industry as a whole -- from songwriters losing their jobs to record stores, especially those around college campuses, closing their doors.

Many factors have conspired to make this cholera outbreak one of the worst ever seen in Angola. But with what we know today there can be no excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the death toll from climbing much higher.

I was very startled. I heard about it when I was in class, actually. It was kind of hard to believe. There are a lot of things that have happened in the past and things that are going on right now that take a toll on a person's mind. It's hard. I personally have a lot of things going on with me that I don't share with a lot of people.

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

It depends on the day you ask him. I think he's come to terms with the physical toll racing in every event takes on him and plans on being more strategic. But then I've also heard Bode say in passing he's going to ski every race.

Man, we've been playing a lot of games. It seems like we haven't had a day of rest, and that probably took a toll on us mentally. We've just been playing so much in the last week or so.

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.

I was proud I was able to finish the game. This running game takes a toll on your body, but it also takes a toll on the defense. Next year we have to condition our bodies for it.

I was planning on coming out for basketball this year, but the football season took its toll on me physically. I needed to rest and rehabilitate some injuries. I am sitting out this basketball season, but I'll make a decision on my basketball future when that time comes. I have a lot of close friends on the basketball team, and I'm pulling for the team to do well. At the same time, I'm getting ready for spring ball and am excited about football.

I wasn't used to sitting on the bench. I shouldn't have done it, but I did kind of start to lay back and not work as hard. It's taking a toll on me right now, but I feel I'm starting to gain the confidence of the coaches.

My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to the services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

Mercury's focus on adding value through integrated solutions translates to end-to-end payment processing for Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip.

Members from both sides of the aisle endorsed a plan which will permit cable and phone companies to construct 'pay as you surf, pay as you post' toll booths for the Internet.

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

We really wanted to bring this toll to the attention of governments, international health organizations, and the public and to provide a road map to move forward.

We really need to focus as much capital as feasible in rebuilding the roadway. We had a toll increase in 2004, and we had a commitment that every penny of that money would go into improvements in the road.

When you're in the spotlight as early as Floyd was, it takes a toll in a lot of ways. But remember, when you're talking about a celebrity, things aren't always as they seem. Floyd made some mistakes, but not as many as some people would have you believe. He's always been a guy with a big heart who wants to do the right thing.

We will respond when we have seen the revised toll offer.

We've gotten so good we wouldn't be able to attract any competition. Our top kids will only race six times because each race takes a toll on their bodies.

We have been trying for months to get an investigation underway into this deal which was negotiated between Toll employees and former Toll employees who were being given Toll options while working at Pacific National,

With the death toll still rising, it will take untold millions of dollars to get back some semblance of life along the nation's Gulf Coast. Most of us will never truly understand what it is like to have your life turned upside down overnight. No place to call your own. To become homeless in a day is unthinkable.

We have had discussions over a long period of time about building private toll roads in New Zealand.

We have had a tough week with sports altogether. We played much better in the second half only holding them 2-1. Injuries and schedules for these ladies have really taken a toll on them, but we'll be ready come time for playoffs.

we know that today's horrible and senseless violence has taken a terrible toll on their lives and our hearts go out to them.

Toll sees no reason to bid against itself to acquire Patrick. Toll will not overpay for Patrick.

Toll roads may be an option we consider, ... Everything is on the table out the gate.

Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.

Toll remains committed to the proposed merger of the Toll and Patrick businesses.

Toll may come back with a slightly revised offer and maybe this is something to sharpen their thinking.