Top 100 Daley Quotes
#2. While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley
Tom Daley
#3. Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
William M. Daley
#4. Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Bobby Rush
#5. Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.
Rick Perlstein
#6. Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not.
Che Ahn
#7. The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
Jane Byrne
#8. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
Giles Duley
#9. I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
Caitlyn Jenner
#10. Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.
Phil Boyer
#11. He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said.
Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#12. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
#13. Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.
Don Rose
#14. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#15. What I mean is that you aren't even supposed to know we exist. Therefore, how can you completely understand something if you're not supposed to know it's there?
Christina Daley
#16. Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.
Tom Daley
#17. 17 Christmases is a delightful children's book that I would highly recommend
Dandi Daley Mackall
#18. I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!
Tom Daley
#20. What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
Daley Thompson
#21. It's my personal onion theory. See, it's like we've all got layers on layers, going deep inside, to layer ten, that place where we're spiritual and private. But we don't show those deep layers.
Dandi Daley Mackall
#23. Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.
Dandi Daley Mackall
#24. My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
Richard M. Daley
#25. It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
Richard M. Daley
#26. I've never wanted a slave. But I have always wanted a bother. I want you to be free, Coal. You can repay me by staying that way.
Christina Daley
#28. You got a gun, you get in trouble. I don't need no gun. I got a little hatchet that I keep under the seat of my car. Some son of a bitch bangs into my car, I jump out and beat him with the hatchet.
Robert Daley
#29. You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.
Christina Daley
#30. We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
Daley Thompson
#31. The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley
#32. We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.
Richard J. Daley
#33. The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#34. No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
Richard J. Daley
#35. Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.
John Francis Daley
#36. In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.
Richard M. Daley
#37. Han made a sour face. "I happen to like to shoot first, Rekkon. As opposed to shooting second.
Brian Daley
#38. There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
Daley Thompson
#40. Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom!
Christina Daley
#41. The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.
Kathi Daley
#42. Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.
Tom Daley
#43. In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
Daley Thompson
#44. Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#45. During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.
Daley Thompson
#46. Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
Richard M. Daley
#48. you make me feel like myself again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else. Last night you gave me space to dream bigger than the single bed. You laughed in your sleep and I cried in mine and
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#49. First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
Richard M. Daley
#50. I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.
Tom Daley
#51. For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.
William M. Daley
#52. I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.
Tom Daley
#53. Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
Daley Thompson
#54. There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
Daley Thompson
#56. Self expression is a tricky
thing. Just as you start to feel
comfortable with yourself after years
of not, you then have to justify
yourself to other people.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#57. Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
Richard M. Daley
#58. The secret to my success is the love & support of a good bar of chocolate
Ray Daley
#59. The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
Daley Thompson
#60. People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
Daley Thompson
#61. Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#62. The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.
Richard M. Daley
#63. There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it.
Richard M. Daley
#64. Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
Daley Thompson
#65. What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley
#66. It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session
Tom Daley
#67. So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
Richard M. Daley
#68. Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
Daley Thompson
#70. People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.
Richard M. Daley
#71. You have to have all these elements of a feature but with a third of the length. And also the development process - there are so many more steps in getting notes from the studio, getting notes from the network.
John Francis Daley
#72. You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing.
Richard M. Daley
#73. I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car.
Emma Daley
#74. I think that's pretty crucial for it to succeed and be something more than just something you put your kid in front of and turn on the DVD. We wouldn't have got involved if it were just for little kids. We wanted to write something that works on both levels.
John Francis Daley
#75. Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson
#76. We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
Daley Thompson
#77. Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.
Richard M. Daley
#78. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#79. A person is not the product of her experiences, but of her choices. That's what affects the brilliance of a soul.
Christina Daley
#80. Just because you can't read doesn't make you dumb. It just means you haven't learned yet.
Christina Daley
#81. It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
Daley Thompson
#83. We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it.
Richard J. Daley
#84. The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#85. You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#86. Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
Richard M. Daley
#87. Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#88. I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
Daley Thompson
#89. Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
Daley Thompson
#90. I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.
Richard M. Daley
#91. Anyone can learn anything. What matters is if you want to.
Christina Daley
#92. Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson
#93. The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.
William M. Daley
#94. I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
Richard M. Daley
#95. Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.
Tom Daley
#96. After all, you couldn't expect any man to turn away from a beautiful woman with her ass in the air.
Constance Daley
#97. The secret to my success is the love & support of a good bar of chocolate
Ray Daley
#98. We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.
Richard M. Daley
#99. Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
Richard J. Daley
#100. We're family, right? We foul up and say we're sorry and let it go.
Christina Daley
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