Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deb Vercauteren

We remember that we were one point away last year and that's added fuel. This is a whole new season, but we should be a strong team outdoors.

Kevin Miller

We're going to have added money we did not have before, we know that. To put a number on that right now, I can't do that.

Kevin Miller

We're going to have added money we did not have before, we know that, ... To put a number on that right now, I can't do that. I'll know a lot more about how this is going to work a year from now.

Mike Workman

What we're running into is that teams are really preparing for her. That brings added pressure on her, but on the upside it's made her a better player. She's been our main scorer over the past couple of years (averaging 16.2 points last season to earn Division II honorable-mention all-district honors).

Ryan Rosenberg

We found that a lot of people were using advanced scripting, multiple files and other advanced tools but don't think of themselves as professional developers. So we repositioned the product and added more stuff for customization--more tool tips and custom menus.

Melanie Balcomb

What's really nice about having freshman is that you don't expect much of them. So when they do good, it's an added bonus.

Judy Morgan

Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it was only a mere 30 days or so. It worked for us, but I sure didn't recommend it to my children.

Pat Riley

We feel that he will be able to play three positions for us, giving us added versatility.

Jeff Kinney

We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.

Bill Harmon

We express our appreciation to voters who participated in the recent election process. The county committee system can only work effectively with strong producer involvement.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

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

Pam Wilson

We're hoping that people will get a sense of appreciation for the history of the town.

Jane Anderson

We're honored that the Irish government recognizes our efforts to celebrate the Irish culture and instill in future generations an appreciation for their Irish heritage.

William Shakespeare

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

Chogyam Trungpa

A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

Chip Conley

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.

China Mieville

Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act--to Weave--was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.

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.

Josie Bissett

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Jennifer Egan

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Elgin Bayless

When I talked with the state, they said they had most of those records on microfiche. But they didn't have the books for these years and these counties. They couldn't believe that I had them.

Mario Batali

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.

Edmund White

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Jerry Cantrell

We're making it up as we go along. It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend.

Rick Anderson

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

Kim Davis

We're going to find the best books for Pasco County. I'm not foreseeing any issues.

Greg Harrison

When we went in there, they really started blitzing everybody. They saw Morelli as an inexperienced, second-string quarterback and they brought the house against us. But as a whole, I thought we picked it up well. We had a couple, little miscues, but nothing that can't be corrected.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Mona Simpson

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

George H. W. Bush

We remember the integrity and the sense of duty that he brought to every task before him,

Matt Hammons

We're going to miss those guys because they brought a lot to our team.

Kevin Morrow

We're going to miss Marlene and everything she's brought to the department and the university.

Scott Browne

When we brought out Richard Petty, people started coming up and asking for autographs, ... and we didn't expect that.

Ashley Goforth

When we brought in speakers this year, we were looking for them to be informative as well as entertaining and fun.

Harry Tholen

When we brought guys in, I don't think anybody got a hit, and they did make a couple errors.

Pam Walker

We guarantee that we are going to sit with each of our students, and the counselors at Escondido High School have 500-plus students each that we're responsible for.

Chris Rupkey

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

Judy Miller

Very few parents do save for college in their child's early years. When I counsel young parents, I make it clear that they have emergency reserves to protect them for unexpected events and so they don't have to use these education funds as a first line of support.

Charles M. Schulz

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

John Kellogg

We appreciate students' and parents' patience and the hard work of the counselors and staff.

Martin Ackley

We are going to sit down with our legal counsel and sort out the ramifications of this ruling.

Bible Bible

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

James Comey

There is no possibility that any consultations with Padilla's counsel will result in agreed terms of attorney access.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

Richard Boucher

We've always made clear that we felt that Somalia and the situation that existed there made it a potential haven for terrorists.

Marc Klee

We've always felt that we were going to have to test the bottoms that we've seen. We think what you are seeing today is probably that test and we really don't think that the market is going much lower.

Tom Higgins

We've always felt that way. I'm not surprised that when he had the opportunity to go in that he performed as well as he did.

Pat Ivey

We've always felt that this Business 40 effort could be a model for other projects.

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.

Jeremy Shockey

We've always felt like that. Not just because of this game. We just felt we can play with anybody.

Kevin Cato

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

Tom Albertrani

We've always felt he would be a better horse around two turns, and he trained better going into the Tampa Bay Derby than he did the Sam Davis.

Sean Cotter

We've always felt Heidi was a real good hitter, and she's definitely a feared hitter in the conference, but it just seemed like she just wasn't able to put it together for long stretches. And this year she's just been in a really good place, I think, both physically and mentally.

Janet Jackson

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Norman Black

We believe we followed every state regulation and rule interpretation and application at the time we were exiting the insurance business.

Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Luke Hemsworth

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

Tamika Williams

Wow, I'm getting old. She followed me at my old high school.

Ken Mehlman

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Rick Segal

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.

Allison Baver

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

Tim Guter

When it came to crunch time, he was there for us. He was a very calming influence for us. We knew if one of our defenders got beat, Shep was back there.

Bob Nardelli

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

Yorg Kerasiotis

We're so influenced by Motown and the mid-'70s and the rock sound Detroit had.

John Thompson

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

Joe Wilson

We grew up on U2 music. We look up to them as a major influence and inspiration.

Joe Wilson

We grew up on U2 music, ... We look up to them as a major influence and inspiration.

David Ader

We are getting hit with an enormous amount of supply. That is having an exaggerated influence.

Joe Franco

When I was a freshman, I became great friends with the Student Body President at the time, Brian Bradley. We would often talk about what this university needed and how we could make it a better place. He inspired me to some day be in his position ... so I did.

Kendrick Meek

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The

Dave Grohl

Usually after making a record, you imagine it to be your last, ... You just feel tapped out. This time, for whatever reason, this album inspired me to keep writing. It made me feel like we still have good albums in us, that we're still capable of making good records for years to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

Chinua Achebe

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

Chet Baker

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Cheryl Richardson

Don't be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams.

Kathleen Blanco

Were finding a mighty lot of people, ... We think there are hundreds more.

William Shakespeare

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

Joseph B. Wirthlin

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

Charles Studd

David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.

Bible Bible

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: / Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

Ella Wilcox

Therefore I do protest against the boastOf independence in this mighty land.Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.

Linda Wade

We have to go back to those mighty precious values we've left behind. We have to go back and look and see to remember the battles we've fought ... looking backward to help us move forward.

Helene Lagerberg

Never to forget, your mind is greater than our mighty universe...

Joseph B. Wirthlin

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

James E. Faust

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.

David Roberts

Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.

Scott Anderson

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Scott Anderson

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

Brigham Young

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

Kyrsten Sinema

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Kirby Heyborne

I got criticized for my accent more by Mormons than people in England. The people in England thought I was Welsh.

Jane Clayson

I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed with the Holy Spirit in my life.

Raine Maida

We're being not overprotective but special, and careful, about it because it is special. We don't want it to get lost in the shuffle of the Christmas (rush). We want everything to be right, whether it's the artwork or the title. We're quite precious about it, but I think that's good.

Peter Galvin

The plight of California's natural environment is mirrored by the plight of the salamander, ... As the salamander loses its habitat, so too does California lose its precious oak woodlands, grasslands and vernal pools.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

Ella Wilcox

Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?

Gretchen Rubin

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'

Ma Shang

With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even more precious because no other country can control operating costs and keep them as low.

Source Unknown

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

Joe Franco

When I was a freshman, I became great friends with the Student Body President at the time, Brian Bradley. We would often talk about what this university needed and how we could make it a better place. He inspired me to some day be in his position ... so I did.

Harry Reid

We're spending a lot of money in the Gulf, ... We have to do that, but is there anyone in the world that can justify $70 billion in tax cuts? I don't think so. So before I talk about offsets, let the president focus on that.

John Marshall

We're going to talk to the voters about the issues Colorado cares about. We don't begrudge him bringing in Eastern Bloc friends, but I suspect that the cowboys down at the coffeehouse in Delta are more interested what the candidates have to say about water and health care than whether or not the president of Poland is backing you.

Bill Richardson

We're going to talk about positive issues. We're not going to be bashing the president at every turn, ... Fox News Sunday.

Kendrick Meek

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.

Maureen Shea

When we began this year, no one would have guessed that the vice president would be needed to break a tie on the budget. Our advocacy made a difference.

David Jones

When we finally decide on who our president is, and on the day when we realize the economy is so weak that that new president must cut taxes, and he can't do it because of a divided congress and all the animosity that comes out of this agonizingly long presidential election, the dollar's going to be in trouble.

Tom Harkin

When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Douglas Brinkley

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

Chief Seattle

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Cheryl Richardson

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Cheryl Strayed

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Charles Buck

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

Charles Baudelaire

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Frazier

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Benny Hinn

When I taught the little gods doctrine, I was using Scriptures that didn't fit.

James Jones

We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in moderation. There's a scripture that says let your moderation be known unto all men.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Charles Simeon

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

Charles Hodge

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

Jim Finn

We remain optimistic that the Department of Justice will conclude that this transaction is not anti-competitive, and that we will complete the transaction in a timely manner.

Steve Adams

What they're doing is simply using our fax and voice broadcasting systems to deliver one message to all these different places at once so it's a consistent message, it's timely and reaches everybody at the same time.

Terry Stotts

When we didn't turn the ball over, we got some good opportunities. Michael's approach was terrific. He got in little more of a rhythm and made some timely shots.

Ryan Doumit

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Tony Robichaux

We're finally getting to the point that we want to play at. We're pitching, playing solid defense and getting some timely hits.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Dale Lortz

We started slow at the plate, but kept putting pressure on them with bunting and running until we could get some timely hitting. We made some mistakes, but again played great defense when we it was needed. The pitchers did a good job.

Steve Greller

We started out with a good win thanks to our strong pitching and timely hits.

Dick Armey

Until we receive your commitment to follow through on their rhetorical offerings, we shall not treat these overtures as serious and will continue our efforts to force action on the daily floor proceedings until such time as we secure your personal confirmation on a fair and timely consideration on this important matter.