Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Maduro

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

Carl Jung

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Larry Fitzgerald

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

Leymah Gbowee

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

Denzel Washington

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Asif Ali Zardari

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

Tony Hawk

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Marilyn Bouldin

There are people out there that started out with a disadvantage in life. They work hard and aspire to own a home. We want to help them with that dream. They need a hand. It's not a handout.

Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Kyle Hines

When we weren't winning, we were still working hard. It just didn't seem like we had all the pieces of the puzzle. We all believed sometime we'd click, and I'm happy it's now.

Karen Stewart

When we were in Waveland, we were thinking about how we could help folks. We wanted it to be more than that we went to Waveland for two weeks to help. We wanted to say that people outside of Mississippi care about them and believe as they do that they will rebuild.

Annette O'Toole

When we were first together, he said, Nobody's ever called me Darling. I said, I can't believe that - I could just cry thinking about it.

Nick Vitucci

When we were 12 points behind Wheeling, we never doubted ourselves and always believed we could do it.

Cody Franson

When it come down to it on most nights it is about the player and the teams that work the hardest and not so much a chess match of strategy. Composure is key to playing defense and you cannot allow others to get under your skin and throw you off your game.

Pink Floyd

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it was goneI cannot put my finger on it nowThe child is grown, The dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.

Robert Barry

We remain confident GM will offer some assistance to Delphi, but bankruptcy risk cannot be ignored. We think GM would find it hard to justify not offering its struggling, former captive supplier, Delphi, some form of assistance.

Michael Redd

We're starting off slow (in the fourth quarter). The first couple minutes we just floundered away. It's happened to us the last few nights. We cannot afford to do that.

Ron Dittemore

We're going to pause and reflect upon the crew of Columbia, their lives, their contributions, their memory, and although we cannot stop our investigation and the recovery effort, we will pause in this location to take the time to reflect upon their lives, their sacrifice. It's a day of remembering. It's a day of remembering our friends, and for us it's a day of mourning.

James Harrington

What they're doing is totally illegal. You cannot stop and question and search people without a search warrant and probable cause.

Jakob Bohme

When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot say nor find that we are at home in this life.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Nelson Mandela

What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

Jeff Brown

We felt like not only was (the compliance check failure) unintentional, but that we took many, many steps to prevent it.

Mike McGavick

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

David Gayson

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Richard Byrd

We're focusing on evacuation and what would cause us to evacuate major portions of our population. One of the largest impacts on Davidson County would be the hopefully unlikely but catastrophic failure of the Wolf Creek Dam.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Charles Buxton

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Curtis Dubay

What's keeping Arizona firmly in the middle is that they need to do a better job with business taxes.

Susan Lyne

With new initiatives under way in every area of the business, the revitalization of MSLO is firmly underway. Third-quarter earnings were modestly ahead of expectation, largely on the strength of our core publishing business.

Jim Olson

We are proud of our record as an auto industry environmental leader and firmly believe our vehicles comply with the testing procedures as originally written.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Martin Jacques

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

Kelly Devers

We're looking at what the governor announced. We firmly believe that charter schools provide an effective educational option.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Karan Johar

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

Marc Kudisch

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

Gary Cook

We're going to miss him. He's such a pillar for the sport. We'll just have to keep him involved.

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

Bruce Raynor

The potential for exposure to bacteria on airline blankets and pillows is a very real issue for millions of Americans,

Lori Allen

We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.

Steven Galson

There are dangers to consumers who purchase diet pills that contain drugs of unknown origin and quality. These products are not approved by the FDA and if people experience side effects, it is difficult to trace problems and for physicians to treat them.

John Donne

Where, like a pillow on a bed, / A pregnant bank swelled up, to rest / The violet's reclining head, / Sat we two, one another's best.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

Vince Green

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Jamie Russell

When we were successful in this building, we scored shorthanded goals. If we get a bounce here or there (tonight) and if one of those finds the back of the net, it's a different outcome.

James Nesbitt

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

Michael Finley

Tony is a big part of our success so far this season. Tonight, everyone had to step up and do something that he would usually give us during the game as far as assists and points. Everyone did that tonight.

Brad Grey

Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Jim Hawkins

We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.

Lester Holt

I reluctantly soldiered on to the raccoon. It actually would have tasted quite good had I not had the image of a raccoon rummaging through the garbage stuck in my head.

Joey Porter

I was sleeping all week, but I just tasted blood right there. You're craving it when you haven't tasted it in a while. Now I'm thirsty for more.

Johann Kaspar

He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life

Keith Jackson

He had never seen a corn dog, much less tasted one. It took him three quarters to eat one, and then he ate three.

Christopher Shays

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Chris Shelton

I don't drink Red Bull. I don't drink red pop. I do chew Big Red gum. I've tasted red pop and it wasn't for me.

Laura Bush

I am delighted that Cris Comerford has accepted the position of White House Executive Chef, ... Her passion for cooking can be tasted in every bite of her delicious creations.

Jen Kirkman

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

Brandi Brown

I tasted spring - the cupcakes and pizza and polish sausage. From the fall, I had turkey and dressing. It was mouth-watering. And I had cabbage and turnip greens.

Margot Robbie

You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.

Darren Shaw

We remain unconvinced that an acquirer would be interested in buying/merging with Hanson, unless the asbestos liabilities were capped in law. We continue to believe that the probability of asbestos reform becoming law in 2006 is extremely thin.

Ned Riley

We're going to see more of the same for the next few weeks, unless something comes in that indicates a pick-up in activity in the economy or on the corporate level,

Kevin Blanshan

What we're looking at is about a 30 percent reduction in both programs per year. There isn't a lot of new money there to consider new projects, unless some of the other ones drop out.

Mayor Shaw

What this is for is (to express) what you want to see the town of Wesson like in the next five years, 10 years.... But we can't get your ideas unless you're there.

Bertrand Russel

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Mike Simpson

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

Susan Hofer

We felt it was that person's responsibility to take care of the maintenance of the facility and make sure that the facility is operated safely and cleanly. We don't normally do summary suspensions unless there's imminent concern.

Steve Francis

Webster was low going into the winter, ... and we know it will give up water for irrigation next summer. Unless the situation there changes fairly quickly, it's going to continue to be very low.