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“I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.”

“As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.”

Feels Ideas Care Guy Lines Anxiety Bottom No Idea Bottom Line Nervousness

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.”

Want Whole Guy Wish Deals Organization Bottom Staff All The Best

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.”

Said States America President Lines United United States Achieve Bottom Nuclear Priorities Iran President Obama United States Of America Bottom Line Top Priorities

Author:Mitt Romney

“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.”

Writing Sea Ought Bottom

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.”

Time Hours Education Minutes Empty Bottom Holes Emptiness Wasting Time Buckets Wasted Time Don't Waste Your Time Lost Time Empty Vessels

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.”

Ifs Knows Want Asks Careers Fashion Bottom

Author:Tamara Mellon

“You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.”

People Stills Hard Fighting Games Bottom Breeze

Author:Steve Zahn

“I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.”

Philosophy Lines Roles Basketball Bottom Bottom Line Jerry

Author:John Amaechi

“SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.”

Stills Feelings Sitting Bottom Warm Uncomfortable Seats Vague Uncomfortable Feeling

Author:Douglas Adams

“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”

Ifs Humans Looks Reality Eye Remember Human Beings Forget Half Happened Normal Bottom Imaginary Admirable Imaginary Life

Book:Polgara the Sorceress

Source: Polgara the Sorceress

“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.”

Want Doe Philosophy Comfort Opposites And Love Bottom Hungry Awful Excitement Desperate Stomach Appetite Starving Converses Very True

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.”

Should House Goal Lines Policy Bottom Employment Rising Assets Inflation Bottom Line Monetary Variables Output Central Banks Monetary Policy Rising Prices

Author:Janet Yellen

“The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.”

Care Lines Patient Bottom Reform Health Care Physicians Bottom Line Health Care Reform

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.”

Looks Bottom

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.”

People World Country States Energy Given Nations Lines United United States Economy Wise Industry Cost Lows Bottom Oil Bottom Line Manufacturing Greatest Gifts World Economy Oil Industry

Author:Ray L. Hunt

“When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.”

May Littles Today Struggle Childhood Goodness Bottom Compare Little Things Gestures Bring Me Down

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.”

Ifs Want Bottom Holes Bless Sticking Out

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.”

Knows Art Hard Bigs Hate Culture Shots Bottom Clubs Despots Philistines Big Shots

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.”

Knows Way Facts Happens Simple Talking Media Dangerous Politician Presses Bottom Complicated Better Ways Summarizing

Author:Seth Gordon

“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”

Firsts Winning Race Bottom Execution Funding Mississippi Public Education

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.”

People Want Jobs Lines Attention Sells Surprise Bottom Lovely Pleasant Extras Awards Tickets Candy Bottom Line Pleasant Surprises

Author:Sophie Thompson

“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

Littles Doe Poetry Pleasure Clear Poet Approach Bottom Dare Determined Remove Veils Trifles Mariners

Author:E. B. White

“When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up.”

Inspirational Left Bottom Softball Atlantis

Author:Tim Walters

“If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.”

Ifs Long Fall Meditation Long Time Bottom Intellect Buckets

Author:Yuanwu Keqin

“The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.”

Energy Bottom Oil Alternatives Visible Barrels

Book:World Oil: Coping With the Dangers of Success

Source: World Oil: Coping With the Dangers of Success

“When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.”

Trying Lines Practice Sitting Bottom Accustomed Bottom Line Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.”

Kind Two Lines Disease Bottom Cancer Bottom Line Procedures Extending Chemotherapy Leukemia Testicular Cancer

Author:Ralph W. Moss

“Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.”

Poverty Bottom Extremes

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .”

Men Littles Bits Democracy Walking Paper Little Bit Crosses Paid Bottom Pencils Tribute Little Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.”

Doubt Wise Worst Bottom Wounds Secure Modest Tents Beacons

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”

Children Stills Life Is Culture Compassion Moral Principles Teach Progress Conscience Built All Things Bottom Tales Idiot Meaningless Fragments Relativism Moral Principles Signifying

Author:Michael Novak

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

Political Individual Violence Crime Bottom Injustice Organized Indignation Offenders Organized Crime

Author:Emma Goldman

“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”

Ifs Joy Clear Blood Bottom Intoxication

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.”

Christianity Hatred Bottom Judaism

Book:MOSES AND MONOTHEISM

Source: MOSES AND MONOTHEISM

“You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.”

Ifs May Lines Economy Products Bottom Manage Bottom Line Market Economy

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.”

Thinking Wells Different Growth Lines Results Study Fields Balance Diversity Bottom Gender Multiple Bottom Line

Author:Christine Lagarde

“Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.”

Trying Looks Enough Water Clear Wonderful Paint Bottom Insane Grass Application Clear Water

Author:Claude Monet

“I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!”

Done Water Taken Difficulty Bottom Grass Weaving Tackling

Author:Claude Monet

“I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?”

Men Goodness Bottom Good Man

Author:Samuel Beckett

“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”

People Way Sleep Rooms Cities Five Streets New York Mines Ten Shadow Train Bottom Snow Flight New York City Coal Starving Sleeping In

Author:Bob Dylan

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.”

Thinking Concerned Bottom Boredom Touched Ennui Vistas

Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

“I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.”

Way Made House Parent My Own Moved Bottom My Way Survived Nyu

Author:Lady Gaga

“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”

Sometimes Beautiful Differences Ocean Bottom Calm Glasses Rage Peaceful Consistent Good Life Contrast Godly Serene Fathom Stormy Godly Life

Book:From Ashes to Glory

Source: From Ashes to Glory

“Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.”

Millions Wife Clean Bottom Girlfriend Bells Closets Cleaning Cleanliness Fiancee

Author:Deion Sanders

“Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.”

Effort Bottom

Author:Bill Toomey

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