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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas A. Edison

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

The guys have stuck with it. We lost some early meets, but seem to be coming through now.

Brian Sloan

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

W. R. Inge

He really gets himself up for big meets. He just stepped up real big. When he gets put in a pressure situation, he holds up real well.

Joe Kosman

We think it's a fair and balanced agreement that meets the needs of both the company and the union.

Brian Hamilton

I think this budget should be passed without any changes whatsoever because it meets the needs of our students here in Bloomfield.

Shirley Thompson

On paper we were not better than they were. But you don't win meets on paper.

Steve Whittington

We didn't have Mike until the last three meets last year because of an injury, so it was good to have him back.

Marty Klein

In the process he meets a swan who accepts him.

Cathy Sturgill

As a senior and a team captain, this one meant a lot to me. (St. Joe) had a lot of kids step up. We didn't have as many. That's what happens in state championship meets.

Owen Black

We're an informal group that meets and discusses genealogy and we try to get through road blocks by talking together.

Nancy Powell

We were mainly freshmen and sophomores this year and they stuck with it. They knew we were going to get beat in a lot of meets because we couldn't fill a full lineup, but they kept working hard.

Troy Houge

I'd be hopeful we can score in three or four events at the state level and do better in our dual meets.

Jim Ford

We went all-out; we didn't hold back. We have been training all year for two meets on back-to-back days. We weren't going to change the script.

Byron Knox

We've got some good meets coming up. Hopefully, I can do well. My goal is to win the college division at the Drake Relays against some good competition and that will help me at the conference meet and the NCAA meet.

Kevin Becker

There are two meets that count (sectional and state), and this isn't one of them. Sure this is a confidence builder, but you want to beat the champions at the championship meet.

Amy Dupont

Psychologically, we're at our best. The last two meets put us where we want to be. We really feel like this is going to be a great meet for us.

Jerry Reighard

It's utilitarian meets romantic.

John Bartlett

That's what a lot of these meets are, just getting back in the swing of things and seeing what we need to work on.

Kylie Mccuen

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott

There are so many meets between now and Beijing. I have a lot I want to accomplish this year.

Andrew Rock

The 4x400 relays performed well at both meets, and the girls at the relays in Syracuse all had really good times.

Sara Myers

(Michigan) has had one of the best programs around. We've had some competitive meets with them. A couple times we swam better, but their diving beat us.

Dan Ross

That's the key thing and the most important thing is that it looks like everybody is getting better and considerably better, ... Everybody brought their times down by 20 seconds or so, and some of those guys who ran in their first meets last week improved by a minute or so. So, it's encouraging for us.

Andy Holt

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt

We have a complete specification, that meets the [IEEE] mandate.

Bill Bunch

To the best of our knowledge, Ambassador Brownfield has not met with these people. The ambassador meets with a wide variety of people, just like Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez does in the U.S.

Salome Hernandez

The school board meets on the third Wednesday in May to approve the hire. We should make an announcement then.

Dave Shockley

Place matters to us. We often call it sacred ground where earth meets heaven.

William Cooke

He's had a passionless life. He meets a woman and she's from Humboldt and she sort of sweeps him away and he ends up in Humboldt and meeting her family.

Jason Weiss

We have an ordinance now in place, and if someone brings forward a project that meets the wording of the ordinance and meets community expectations, I will have to move forward.

Rick Tacy

Our industry is dynamic and we have conversations with all the major players in our industry. We will only do an acquisition when it helps us to fulfill our strategic mission, that meets our goals and objectives.

Charles Lee

He wanted to be here. He's dedicated to the team. I know he'll be at the rest of the meets. Wrestling's a huge thing in his life.

Alex Sanchez

We definitely have improved from the first meet. But we have bigger meets ahead of us; we still have a long way to go.

Sue Parks

Since we're getting those high scores, its hasn't been disappointing. But since we've gone three meets in a row now without winning, we're ready for a win.

Ashley Kelly

If a kid knows a book and meets the author, he will love it so much more.

Katie Davis

The dual meets are much more fan-friendly than these individual tournaments that drag on for 12 hours a day for three straight days.

Bob Bergen

It meets the basic requirements to get (students) into college.

Larry Russell

It's like hard meets soft. The thug is how they dress, kind of street, but they're good kids and they make the right decisions.

Shawn Wayans

Both teams had good meets. The girls had some great times. They really worked for it.

Todd Marco

Now she looks likes she's relaxing. When she's having fun, I'm having fun. At the meets, if she looks like she's starting to get nervous, I'm like, ?Jami, calm down.' And she's like, ?Right.' She just gets it done.

Tasha Smith

We believe this conservation framework meets the important public request we heard for more permanent conservation.

Jim Lehner

It felt good. You always want to do your best at meets. I was happy, but I'll keep working on it and do better.

Julie Wojta

He's a warrior, but everything changes when he meets Isolde.

James Franco

We keep improving-we've been improving all year. We're getting certain key people healthy that have been out for the last couple meets. That combined with the improvement of the rest of our team-we're hoping to do a good job.

Barry Weiner

The full TRC meets again this week.

John Dludlu

There hasn't been anyone that's been presented to the group that meets all the qualifications.

Bill Owen

I don't like second meets in a row. (Friday's meet) was pretty good, this one wasn't so good. I had a fell on p-bars, and on floor I forgot my scale.

Calvin Cheney

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.

Harvey Mackay

We wanted as a commissioner an active farmer who has dirt under his fingernails and mud on his boots. Mr. Bradstreet meets these qualifications.

Jon Olson

The intersection meets the criteria for a crash location. So it will be funded entirely with federal and NDOT funds.

Fred Droes

Boy meets Girl, So What?

Bertolt Brecht

It actually meets a standard agreed to by New York, Connecticut and the EPA that doesn't need to be in place until 2014.

Gina Mccarthy

In general there is pretty good competition at these meets.

Jonathan Taylor

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

David Mallet

I can make a push for the gold medal in America East and pass up the bigger meets, so I can march.

Troy Irvine

I am very excited about how our girls did this weekend. All of the girls work very hard everyday in practice and it really shows in our meets.

Terri Lemos

Once it is submitted, we'll take a look to see that it meets our standards.

Steve Spraker

I will personally overview the inquiry and ensure that it meets the highest standards of investigation and evidence gathering.

Lord Stevens

It's something we need to address. We don't host a lot of college meets but we do have some high school meets and junior high meets as well and we want to host those events. They are important.

Rick Hedberg

Cardinal Mahony is not a Johnny-come-lately to being concerned about Latinos. These are his people. He meets them, sees them, and knows how immigration impacts on them and their families.

Thomas Reese

Everybody is just there for each other. You are just more relaxed and have more fun (at meets) than you do if you're there competing by yourself.

Dallas Smith

This is two meets in a row when they swam against us where they've had the two best meets I've ever seen out of them.

Tony Demuro

We are hosting meets for the first time in years, and we hope members of the community will come out and support us.

Kristian Kuegler

I'm just glad that we're finished with dual meets for this year. This is the first time since 1998 that we've beaten everyone in the league. That was one of our goals this year. These guys deserve it, they've worked hard all year for it.

Tim Ward

It's kind of like a funnel. Meets are just stops along the way and everything funnels down to that goal.

Nort Thornton

Four days is pretty quick, but generally we don't get that much time between meets.

Norman Graham

We've had two pretty good meets. I've really been surprised that we've been running this well this early. But we've got a lot of meets this season.

Joe Brooks

We are asking people to call and register first so we can see what the group is going to be like. If it meets with success, I'd love to see it continue.

Diana Sebzda

There has not been a firm offer put forward that meets the financial criteria necessary to continue operations.

Kerry Skeen

The thing I told the kids was that I didn't care if we won these small meets or not, as long as they improved and were peaking toward the districts and county meet.

Phil Johnson

I've been going to Drake Relays and state meets as long as I can remember. I've sort of been around that (government) as well. It's always been brought up.

Matt Hardin

We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success.

Marc Benioff

The committee meets to address various concerns about safety. We'll reschedule and go from there.

George Evans

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

All those things really do help, the little details at the end. The only practice we get with blocks and such is when we're at the meets. We're just coming off the side of the pool.

Tina Jensen

This place has so much history. A great course has to have some history. They were running championship meets here back in the 1960s. There is just a feel to it.

Matt Parker

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Rob Neyland

For a B school like us, that was good competition. That's good preparation for the meets coming up.

Denny Fry

My initial impression is, in terms of the litigation, here may be a little less there than immediately meets the eye.

John Brenner

It was a good win for us. We have been winning close dual meets and that will only help us down the road.

Todd Hockenbroch

After the last couple of meets, it comes down to the championship season.

Todd Wuerger

This is the biggest one we have all year. It's one of the top Division I meets in the country.

Dick Lee

The equipment that is available on the market meets or exceeds all air quality permits in California otherwise they wouldn't be considered.

Tom Amesbury

We haven't been in a lot of big meets and done a lot of incredible things. We've run in them mostly for the experience.

Glenn Bass

We're as closely matched as ever. Kimball beat us in the dual meet (167-169), while we beat them in the two league meets.

Sam Lynch

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The early meets of the indoor season don't mean too much as far as where you finish is concerned. Right now I'm looking to see as much improvement as I can from everybody, and use the indoor season as a good way to practice for the outdoor season.

John Papa

I don't see why I shouldn't. Each meet, I have to learn what I can do to run faster for the rest of the meets.

Jennifer Whitlock

He was excited. He's been pretty consistent all season. We've been to a lot of meets and he's performed well at them.

Joe Bienasz

We feel this meets a certain level of the market that couldn't be reached by the normal way.

Roy Costa

Each meet, the times are dropping. I believe we can improve a lot more. We're going to come together in the end for the big meets.

Walt Hasis

To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discussed how things went and I said, 'Dad, now who am I going to call.' Without hesitation he said you'll call John. That's how close that bond was and he thought of John and John thought of him.

Brian Gray

It's a love story. Boy meets girl, they're falling in love and an evil woman tries to separate them. She has helpers to keep them apart.

Morten Louring

It's good for her to choose, she knows it would be harder to place high in the 200 I.M.. The 200 free and 50 free aren't easy events but she has had good times in U.S.S. meets in those events.

Helen Dixon

She meets the Great Giver, the Life of the World.

Guru Gobind Singh

Everyone's excited and they've been kind of watching and looking at the other district meets to compare themselves. They feel confident and I feel confident we're going to have a good meet. I think all of our kids have a chance to be very competitive.

Matt Fryar

The state meet is going to be a beauty. I think it comes down to Homestead, Madison Memorial and us. Every point is going to count. This looks like it could be one of the closest state meets ever.

Bob Jenkyns

There may be less (to the deal) than meets the eye.

David Albright

We have people in place that have done the Olympic Trials before, have done big meets before.

Greg Erwin

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Gary Tague

We gave some of our older kids some time off and we've had some illnesses. We like to get our young kids in at some big meets early.

Joe Curcio

Marimekko meets Machu Picchu.

Jonathan Adler

Our kids love the big meets. They aren't afraid at all.

Joe Ocheltree

The big Saturday meets are good for us. But the smaller meets can really provide us with a confidence booster.

Kristy Mcclain

The boys without a doubt have to turn things around. The boys have been getting fairly well buried on the state level recently. We've had too many gaps that have killed us at the bigger meets. Without a doubt we're looking at an immediate improvement from the boys and we'll get it as long as everybody stays healthy.

Kevin Quinn

Brett is normally out in front of everybody in meets and practices. The next four battle it out pretty well.

Zac Hake

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

We've had some just beautiful weather. Then, when it's the day for a track meet, the bad weather comes. I think almost everyone in the meet has only competed in two or three meets.

Dawn Pittman

His first serve was very good. He's got a good game when he's playing his best but he'll have to return extremely well when he meets Roddick.

Robin Soderling

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

This is the next level for most of them. We have the top high school finishers from all around here, at these meets.

Jim Brandt

I thought he did really well. It was a good experience for him. He learned that in big meets he has to be a little more aggressive on the dives you know you can handle. Even on the ones you don't think you are going to score so well, you still have to be aggressive no matter what.

John Coffman

Tim had a real nice race for us today. If we can do that at the big meets, we will do very well.

Brian Corcoran

It wasn't one of our greatest meets. We fell all over the beam and had plenty of wobbles.

Lindsay Teisl

Meets the constitutional test.

Dennis O'brien

At summer club meets he kind of coaches little kids at Hillside.

Colin Shaha

The mainframe is much more important to IBM than meets the eye, ... Off of that mainframe IBM gets a ton of other revenue.

Bob Djurdjevic

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

Gaylord Perry

The choice to engage in homosexual behavior meets none of those criteria. I see no reason why they should not be subject to a vote.

Peter Sprigg

Last year we went to a meet in N.Y. on the same course, so that will be a benefit to us. Otherwise, we won't really approach anything differently. We have a couple of big meets to prepare us for what it's going to be like at the BIG EAST meet.

Dave Uhrich

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

They were excited for a little while, but they knew they had to get back to business. They know they have their work cut out for them in their other meets.

Brian Deming

So far in the last three meets, he's had personal bests. That's what you're looking for, especially in the distance events.

Frank Michalowski

The meets are designed for swimmers at all different levels.

Patti Worsley

As an investor, I would love to see them increase the scale of this business. They've got the breadth and depth of management to run a bigger enterprise. The challenge is finding a market that meets their standards.

Peter Appert

My approach in meets, especially when I'm doing sprints, is to go all out. You never know what can happen. So, I take every race and swim it like it is my last one.

Rebecca Kane

It's a place where uptown meets downtown.

Rachel Gore

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Rod Sterling

The goal is to be able to serve the visitors we have and we get a facility that meets their needs, ... Eventually it will bring more people.

Donna Williams

Jordan has finished in our top two in the first two meets so we are very excited about how the team performed without him this week.

Jerry Schafer

Those meets will get them prepared for what lies ahead. By the conference season, we should all be on the same page.

Bill Knickerbocker

This is a facility that meets the needs of doing disease investigation work, and we hope it will also meet our needs for decades to come.

Doug Schultz

If everybody comes together and considers the best thing for the team in meets, this could be a very special year.

Jim Hofmann

We've had some great pre-season workouts and hopefully it carries over when the dual meets begin.

Brenda Clark

I feel pretty good. Three meets in a week is alot.

Amanda Palmer

There's never any assurance that a juror who meets a certain profile will return a verdict a certain way.

Jacob Frenkel

She'll push a piece until it meets her satisfaction.

Judy Warren

[The council also voted to create an international circuit of one-day meets, with the intent of holding] fewer but better meetings, ... The aim is that only the best-quality competitions will be staged under the IAAF brand.

Nick Davies

We don't believe that fulfilling 65 percent of a pledge to fund the pensions fully meets the commitments that were made during the campaign.

Bob Master

These guys have been doing everything I do and more. I can't seem to throw enough stuff at them in practice or in meets. They just keep on going.

Brent Pohlonski

It meets all the needs. And doesn't get crazy financially.

Dick Wright

I hope this gives us a little momentum for the rest of our meets this week.

John Cordes

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

Charlotte Rampling

So when you hit the big meets (at the end of the season), you're ready to go. That's the plan, anyway.

John Ringer

We need to deliver a revised proposal that meets their objections.

Bill Ackman

It's no slouch schedule. You got eight dual meets and it's probably going to be the eight hardest dual meets of the year.

Joe Dubuque

Swanson is a dedicated individual. She works hard and does a good job in practice, and in meets, she works extra hard.

Larry Olson

Things like that just eat her up. If it happens in practice, it's no big deal to her. She gets back up and keeps going. But it shows at meets and she has to be able to get past that.

David Moser

She always had a good spirit and was upbeat. She makes an impression on anyone she meets.

Pam Lancaster

We find that ethanol can, if it is made correctly, contribute significantly to both energy and environmental goals. However, the current way of producing ethanol with corn probably only meets energy goals.

Alexander Farrell

One either meets or one works.

Peter F. Drucker

Since she was a college gymnast and because she's been through college gymnastics, she knows a lot about what's going on up there, what's going through your head. She knows what kind of things will better prepare us for meets.... She definitely knows what buttons to push.

Katie Hardman

We've had a lot of close meets this season. This is one of the teams that beat us last year, so we're very excited. Our team is driven by close competition.

Laura Graf

I guess that's what happens when a No. 2 seed meets a No. 15 seed.

Tim Kessel

In our first two meets this year, they've really set the tone for the entire team. They have a lot to do with why we've gotten off to a good start.

Mike Zimmerman

I probably couldn't find half of them. We've probably been in about 50 meets.

Thomas Pile

It balances out the needs of the community. It meets existing pent-up demands caused by growth that's already there. We've needed it a long time.

Pete Lewis

I've never been a big fan of indoor meets, but something must have gone right today. It's a really good start to the season.

Rachel Miller

This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market.

Adrian Williams

I don't know how a fellow looks, when he meets somebody that he hasn't seen, hasn't heard of, don't know where they are, know nothing about the house, whatever.

Charles Phillips

We don't think long term it meets our target for investment returns.

David Malone

She's such a dear friend. She's shares herself with everybody. If she sees a need, she meets it.

Betty Whisnant

Tel Aviv is the ultimate east-meets-west city. You have the best of European sophistication and Middle Eastern exoticism - sometimes just a block away.

Talya Halkin

This meets demand from more discerning Chinese tourists who want to visit more destinations during one trip.

Chanaka Olagama

In big dual meets, bonus points are always key. Our kids were able to give us those points at the right time, and it paid off for us.

Stan Spoor

For our first meets it was awesome. I'm proud of the girls' performances.

Shawna Smith

When the Fed meets, they won't have much data available other than energy indicators to get a decision.

Gus Faucher

We don't look at her like she's a pro athlete coming in. It's more of a Connie Moore's coming in, we'll see her, and when the track meet's over we'll go hang out with her type of thing.

Gayle Hunter

This is so exciting for the kids after not having any home meets for so long.

Peggy Cox

The common need is cash. Cash meets payroll. Cash pays business loans.

Stephen Moret

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Denzel Washington

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Brittany Daniel

We were undefeated in the conference coming into championships, but we had holes in our line-up in championships that we can cover in dual meets.

Tim Powers

We are now going to have our own annual meets where top managers of the country converge and if such terrorist activities are on the rise, we would not know where to go.

Sushil Kumar

Somebody should look at the plan and see whether or not it meets the vision of the town. There are things you have to look at ahead of time.

Marge Stahl

Everyone who meets with me learns about the aid process. It's a win-win situation.

Gary Aiken

There are no meets that are for sure. Everybody is pretty tough.

Dennis Person

If you want to impact sprawl, you have to impact families. That's why there's sprawl in the first place. They can't find housing in the city that meets their income level.

Peter Steinbrueck

If the proposal meets that criteria he's open to looking at it.

Kelley Heck

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Kris Alexander

There's more to this story than meets the eye.

Lisa Goehle

We take full responsibility, but we are always looking at ways that the technical aspects of the meets could flow.

David Leslie

Against a team like Springfield, that's pretty good. She has been right in there in both of our meets now.

Melanie Stefan

What you inherit may not be appropriate for you, but you can change that. It's a one-time free way to change the portfolio that meets your needs.

Frank Armstrong

It's hard to duplicate the success we've had. They've done a very good job of performing well in big meets.

Erik Jenkins

It's like, Coheed and Cambria meets Beloved.

Elysian Fields

Although the boys' team ran some of their best times, we didn't have the depth we needed to win these meets.

Emily Tucker

There is no information to indicate she meets the high bar necessary for the next justice on the Supreme Court.

Eli Pariser

Then the companies can figure out if whatever equipment they wish to install addresses or meets that mandate.

Edward Goldman

If consumers feel it meets the standard of P2P, they'll be willing to try it, ... Otherwise, they won't care.

Eric Garland