Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Wendy Kopp

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Ben Carson

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Brent Scowcroft

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

Tom Lynch

The overall mission of Fuel Advantage is to bring technology innovators and government incentive programs together in one place, so fleet operators will finally know where to go and who to talk to about saving money on their fuel costs.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Big Sean

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Mark Richt

We played a great football team. They executed beautifully.

Kyle Whittingham

We played about 55 minutes of very good football,

Joe Gibbs

When are we going to start getting it done? I don't know. I know we're here for the long haul. So, at some point, we've got to start getting it done if we're going to win football games.

Joe Jurevicius

What we have to do is realize we have potential here and we do have a special football team here,

John Eastman

We are going to treat it as a normal week just like any other game. Obviously, our kids know it's homecoming, but as a football team, we haven't even talked about it.

Larry Coker

We're not going to be intimidated going into Clemson, South Carolina. We're going to take a good football team there and we're going to play well there.

Larry Blakeney

We had some guys who made plays on offense. But we had 15 or so negative plays. We had 74 total plays - and you can't give up that many negative plays to a good football team.

Lawrie Sanchez

Tommy said that international football just isn't for him,

Betty White

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Dan Gallagher

We are not limiting our options until this comes back before you,

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Alan Cohen

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

Calvin Klein

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Jerry Falwell

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Raymond Kelly

If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.

Jalal Farzaneh

We were students on a limited budget. We had to move.

Ludwig von Mises

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Michael McCabe

When you're releasing that many people, unfortunately mistakes can happen.

Mike Reese

When you're playing someone that's not quite as skilled and well-coached as New Albany, you can make mistakes. When you play a team this good, you can't.

Roy Williams

When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.

Ron Holmes

We didn't play very consistently; we were making very uncharacteristic mistakes. We played a lot better on Sunday, but if we play like that anymore, we will have a rough time with the rest of our schedule.

Brandon Matich

We had some mistakes when we had the momentum.

Kevin Keegan

was not strong enough and made too many mistakes.

David Jones

Today, VoIP is where wireless was 10 years ago. We can't repeat the mistakes made with 9-1-1 and wireless phones again.

Mark Elston

To Lansing's credit, when you have all seniors, those mistakes don't always take place.

Frank Scelfo

We had Tristan (Smith), solid but not great; we had Bush, solid but not great; we had Carl (Davis), solid but not great.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Katie Uhlaender

In my training runs, I threw down solid yesterday.

Hubie Brown

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.