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CRAIG GROESCHEL We will never be able to replicate what WJDA did, but we will try to do our best.
ED PERRY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play.
JASON CAMPBELL We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is ...
DAVID CLEMENT-DAVIES All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN We gave it our best shot tonight and it wasn't enough. Give Cedarburg credit. They played a solid ga...
RON REICHLE It wasn't our best game. But we had chances with the puck, and sometimes it doesn't go in. Tonight, ...
DUNCAN KEITH For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?
CASSANDRA CLARE But we were up to our necks dealing with the storm. We did the best we could under the circumstances...
MACK MCGEHEE I thought I had it blocked, but somehow it got through. It's tough to lose, but we did our best. We ...
JAKE MORELAND . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a re...
JOSH POOL I don't expect my team to win all the games, but we did our best to lose this one.
ANTON OLIVER We gave our best effort, but things just did not come together. The walks killed us. We took the lea...
BRAD PHILLIPS It appeared by the way we were playing that we were the best team and would win this tournament, whi...
AUGIE GARRIDO I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I ma...
GRETCHEN RUBIN We went out and did our best at Tualatin. We knew it was going to be a challenge (against Newberg) a...
AMY WROBLEWSKI We are very sorry to see David go and we will miss him. But he's not leaving us high and dry. The tu...
JAY HOEY We really did come together. We did our best having lost nine seniors from last year.
LAUREN MILLER Truth will prevail over evil. We feel we did our best.
LINDA MCGLADE We didn't come out with our game. We kept turning the ball over in the first quarter and we lost our...
BRITTANY BELL This kid epitomizes what we're looking for. David did decide to play football. He worked hard and wa...
LANCE REED I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try ...
ADAM SCHLESINGER It is pathetic. We have had this with George Best, we had it with Paul Gascoigne and we had it with ...
SIR ALEX FERGUSON He was just dominant. We didn't compete, offensively. We gave it our best shot, but he did a great j...
BOB ATWELL I was very proud of our defensive effort tonight. They (David Lipscomb) did have an impressive drive...
KIRK WILLIAMS I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard...
LEIGH BARDUGO Our attack is in very good hands with David, Matthew and Scott. We're going to score, but we have to...
BOBBY BROCKMAN Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS They did great. We knew it would be a crapshoot and I think it was our best performance on the one-m...
DR. JEFF HUBER These people were really in dire need of help, and we did our best to accommodate their needs, ... I...
JOE SCHMIDT We pay our property taxes and buy our license plates in David City and that's about it. We do go to ...
BOB EARLEY We had to play our best to beat Colgate. When we did not play our best, Colgate made us pay. We lear...
JEFF KAMPERSAL We didn't play our best again, but we did some things well on offense, got some ball reversals. Our ...
DREW LEWIS Things went really well. We did all our routines the best we could.
CARRIE ROTONDARO We needed that badly. It was good to get some scoring off the bench. But the best part about it is t...
BRAD CHASTEEN That showdown with Jamaica should set the trend for our placing. It is going to be tough, but we are...
ANNA SHEPHERD Although we had a fall on a jump we did our best on all our other elements.
TONG JIAN This was a pretty evenly matched game. It could've been 4-3 us at the end. But we missed some opport...
DAVE FRYER Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David
CARLA LYNNE HALL The way it's looking right now, our engine might be one percent below our specifications, but still ...
ELON MUSK I did not have anything to offer in the final and to be honest David was just too good.
ANDREI PAVEL It was something we were focusing on coming into this game. We wanted to put together the best game ...
MATHIAS KIWANUKA David had a fresh engine, but it was not to the latest specification that we plan to run in Bahrain....
IAN MORGAN We held our own, did our job and had a lot of best times, which is something we're shooting for. We ...
GREG PARKER I believe we did our best, based on what we knew at the time,
BERNARD KERIK Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
DANIEL HANDLER We don't fear them, we respect them, but we will be giving it our best shot and trying to get someth...
JAMES QUINN We get flak for working with our best friend. But it would be weird to have business partners who ar...
ASHLEIGH MOSS I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES I think it kind of goes with the album title. Not to sound cheesy or anything, but I'm finding I'm u...
MARCUS DAVIS I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldn't say it was hard. We just did what we loved...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.
JOHN BANVILLE Now we get our shot as David against Goliath. We'll come to play.
HARRY BOWSER We are going to give it our best shot against Crosby. It will be a tough game but our goal is to get...
DARIN HARLEY Sorry to be crude but we did not pick these prices out of our nose.
VLADIMIR PUTIN That's David. There have been many times in meetings I wanted to tell David to settle down or stop i...
JEANNENE BARHAM The boys and (David) did an excellent job,
BONITA FAVRE Dance like David did till your healing comes
JOHN M SHEEHAN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whatever you've been told about his abilities, double it. I admit to being prejudiced, but he is the...
TALMADGE GRAY When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We were aware (the Nebraska was leading), but we were focusing on ourselves. We had to hit good rout...
JANET ANSON You don't know what to expect. You just want to be playing your best. If we play our best, we think ...
PHIL LETHAM It was tough this week not to talk with our mouth. It's tough to have them keep slamming you. But we...
MIKE RUCKER We did this last year, though. We beat these girls here last year, so we've got to do it again at th...
BRIAN DOYON They did their best to give us the game. It just didn't go our way.
BRANDON INGE As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
IMAN One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amuseme...
DAVID LEVITHAN I was pleased to hear we won't be losing our best games. The general impression was that NBC was goi...
DICK ENBERG How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT (The coaches) told the kids if we could play our best ball, we could beat them. The girls believed t...
AMY KRAUSE But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE I like David. He's just a nice guy, but it was probably time for a change, ... He did a good job, an...
DAN POST Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
JACK KINGSTON We feel very fortunate. We're hanging in there. We did our homework. We're doing the best we can.
DAN MALONEY Both Jess and Tawny ran smart races, and it was obvious they wanted to do well here at home. We may ...
ERIC HOULE I thought it was a great game and our kids did a great job. Everything we needed to do to be success...
DOUG HANZIE The boys are like our brothers. We love our boys. (About Matt, Matthew and David)
JENNIFER ANISTON David and Goliath. I didn't think Roger was at his best, to be honest with you. But I think it is a ...
PETE MACKANIN But that's what we want, we want to be the best in the section and the best in league. The target on...
KAITLIN CAREY [So the parish refused to take the money, said Dan Morgan, its secretary and treasurer.] We knew we ...
DAN MORGAN Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 God hath work to do in...
JOHN OWEN It felt so good to beat them. We played really well, but it wasn't our best game.
BRITTANY JANZ My hat goes off to David Gomez and Quincy Davis, both of whom kept fighting the last 20 minutes of t...
DAVE DICKERSON The weather is something we can't control, but we did the best job we could.
EDDIE PRUETT If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... We judge ourselves by our best intentions and most noble acts but we will be judged by our last wors...
MICHAEL JOSEPHSON We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play muc...
MARK ATHERTON This was definitely supposed to be a test, and I think we did pretty good on it. We knew they were a...
ILIAN EVTIMOV David did a good job of keeping Flannery under control.
CRAIG BRUENING We pride our selves on our defense. They missed some shots and we did a good job rebounding. The goa...
JEFF LARSON Now shall I walk or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.
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GAVYN DAVIES Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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ASHLEY DAVIES On the upside, we think that 112.50 could be a key level to watch, beyond which foreign investors ma...
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ASHLEY DAVIES With the Charles Schumer bill possibly being voted on by the end of this month, now may be a good ti...
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ASHLEY DAVIES A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary pol...
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PAUL DAVIES I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
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BOB DAVIES We expect strong growth to continue through acquisitions and tendering opportunities.
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BOB DAVIES It's a major concern, ... We've spent a year doing the legwork trying to get a title sponsor. This y...
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BILLY DAVIES He's just stupid, to be honest. He's got to learn. He's a young lad who's full of fun. That's the an...
BILLY DAVIES It was a nice performance but a disappointing result. To come here and control the game the way we d...
BILLY DAVIES For the majority of the second-half we controlled the game and we didn't get what we deserved,
BILLY DAVIES As yet they are still doing tests and they are still trying to find out what it is.
BILLY DAVIES I asked the referee to look at the video of the game and assess his own performance, because his dec...
BILLY DAVIES We made the enquiry and now we've made the move. Maybe, with the appearances he's made for Celtic, t...
BILLY DAVIES The second half was better. We looked more compact and controlled it.
BILLY DAVIES Jones is a player we admire and like and we have been making lots of phone calls concerning him.
BILLY DAVIES It's a great boost for Patrick to maybe get a chance to play in a World Cup.
BILLY DAVIES Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted...
NICK DAVIES The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is le...
NORMAN DAVIES Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In...
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NORMAN DAVIES A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
NORMAN DAVIES Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and t...
HOWARD DAVIES Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is ...
PAUL DAVIES I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without want...
RON DAVIES It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that...
PAUL DAVIES The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere c...
PAUL DAVIES Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles l...
NORMAN DAVIES It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good...
DAVE DAVIES Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
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ROBERTSON DAVIES To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
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ROBERTSON DAVIES Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, w...
NORMAN DAVIES You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the concep...
PAUL DAVIES When seniors first come here, they're apprehensive. But once they're here, they see that it's a warm...
BARBARA DAVIES The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. T...
ALAN DAVIES This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.
NORMAN DAVIES I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I th...
LYNN DAVIES I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I...
DAVE DAVIES