John Smith Quotations

We're staying in this hotel that I've never been able to stay in. I'm a college student. I don't have any money. This is like a place the president stays in.

Obviously, he had the limitations, but you would have never known it. There was never a time that he let that be a hindrance. I thought that was just tremendous on his behalf. And he loved every minute of it. He always had a smile on his face.

Nobody is comfortable with it. We're uncomfortable that the fees will have tripled so quickly.

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

From here forward, it's about stepping out and wrestling and making sure you don't leave anything on the mat. At (125), we left something on the mat. He had a lot of energy in the third period and was going like a maniac. Where was that from the start?

GM's February sales improved nicely compared to last month and the prior year, giving us momentum as we move into the spring selling season,

He got after it. He took advantage of his strengths.

We just have to approach it like another game, like we have all year. We can't get too nervous. We can't get too big of a head.

We've got to win some matches to do it but if we go on and win that fourth, this is probably one of the more satisfying ones, I would say. I think each one gets much more satisfying. I think we had some up-and-downs and question marks. I think we gave a lot of hope during the season to some teams and then we had to battle up.

The American way is very much about passing on knowledge. This person will become an adviser, a point of contact for the public.

That's what it's all about is trying to get to the College World Series.

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

We still have some more matches we have to win. The fourth one will be more satisfying. Each one is more satisfying. I think that we had some ups and downs, some question marks. I think we gave a lot up through the season to some teams. We had to battle up and that's what we did this weekend.

Whenever I saw two people talking, I would tell myself that they were talking about me. When I went to bed at nights, I could feel the blood pounding in my head and little voices telling me that I am going die in shame.

There is still a good chance because I see a growing appetite to do something but I also feel like the Legislature is looking for something in the middle.

The record has been a distraction for our kids, but breaking it finally took them off the hook.

We gave HKT openings. We were very fortunate to win with the openings we gave them.

You have to love playing at home. Our crowd keeps getting better and better.

We had solid growth in both sales volume and share, led by record utility sales and increasing momentum of our launch vehicles, such as the Chevrolet Malibu,

We have enough linemen to run behind and to fill the gaps on defense.

Everyone's still buzzing. Everybody is still talking about it. We're talking about all the little things we forgot. It will be hard to forget that one.

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

That's why the sewage deal must be terminated, because it will facilitate the SE2 power plant that nobody in Canada wants.

This is a wonderful cause and we want to be a part of it.

They (the Trojans) played well. But our kids played hard, and I?m proud of them.

A lot of players his age are obsessed with making it to the pros. He's not that way, because he's very confident as a person that he can do other things.

There's a nurse, a teacher, a banker and a university technician.

It's a really passionate, sensitive issue to a small group of people.

Considering GM's very strong performance in December, our January results were in line with our expectations.

They were able to get the loose balls all night. But it was that one which summed it all up.

It was huge. Any charge is a huge play. I wasn't trying to take a charge.

I'm going to be in shock for a long time. I'm already looking forward to talking about this for years to come. I can't wait to see all my buddies at home.

I remember telling people in the beginning of the season that we had the team that could go all the way. To say it is one thing. To do it is another. It's been tough; it's been hard. We're fortunate to be here, but we know we deserve to be here.

By the time I got old enough to wrestle, which was 5 or 6, Lee Roy was in it and loved it. For me, it was just natural to follow your older brother.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy...

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints...

You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.

The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality is that there are still concerns about economic growth and that will cap any market rally. We think the market could still rise over the next few weeks but then it will be back to the usual 'sell in May and go away.' This is not the beginning of a bull market.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

He who does not work, will not eat

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

You can't get too high. You can't get too low. Things happen.

This is a lot to take in for a small-town guy like me. We're living the high life. I realize what's going on, and it's just surreal.