Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Kendrick Meek

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

John Love

What we're seeing initially is a reduction in the number of cases allowed. Many of these will eventually get a patent, though.

Jimmy Wales

What we're hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism.

John Edwards

What they've learned and documented over time is actually the repayment rate for low-income families is at least as good, in some cases higher, than other families.

B. F. Skinner

What happens is the cases that we are talking about here have involved elderly people or people with compromised immune systems who come into contact with this water. It can enter the body through a cut or scratch or some kind of abrasion and if it is not treated with antibiotics it can lead to bloodstream or other kinds of infections.

Tom Glenn

We felt like in a lot of cases the parents might not be aware that this was going on with their children, ... We were just advising them to start paying attention to their children's computer habits.

Robin Moore

Usually, defendants involved in these cases have other charges against them, and animal cruelty falls in line at the bottom.

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Rocco Buttiglione

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,

Gavid Hood

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

Gerard Butler

One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something, because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?

Matt Lauria

One of the great, truly extraordinary privileges of being an actor is to interact with individuals from all walks of life, you know, from avocations that you wouldn't ordinarily interact with or people you wouldn't ordinarily interact with.

Jay Cooperider

One of the privileges of helping to pay for this massive project is you can order beer.

Fidel Castro

There is no country in the world where the empire's mercenaries enjoy the privileges they do in Cuba.

Lara Cotten

I am amazed by the privileges people think they deserve when they haven't done the hard work. By hard work, I mean paying your dues. A nurse does not get the same privileges as a doctor and there is a reason why. It is the level of effort and responsibility it takes to get there and stay there.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Mike Cooke

We would seriously question the judgment of any board member or administrator who would have this community believe that they can simply fire the current employees and contract with an outside company to bring in strangers to work in our schools, and still provide the same degree of quality, safety and service that our current custodians and head custodians provide.

Juan Arroyo

We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. I think our effort will gain respect for our program.

David Neeleman

We're going to look at (slowing deliveries) very seriously as we look at our routes and where the capability is and where the substantial profitability (is).

Donald Ratajczak

We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going to be a little bit higher, but not seriously higher and I still feel good about the overall economy.

Chris Campbell

Unless it gets to the point where you are seriously ill, you don't have to leave. You don't have to pack up and be under more duress about finding another place to go.

Peter Volk

We fear that many children are among the dead and injured. Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

Ira Rosenfeld

We're expecting anything from the Teamsters at any time. No day is a particularly good or bad day. We don't feel they have the numbers to seriously hurt this company. That's the bottom line. We are prepared.

Maajid Nawaz

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

Phil Klay

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

David Campbell

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Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

Chief Seattle

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Chief Seattle

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Cheryl Strayed

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Charles Frazier

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.