Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Woman absent is woman dead.

May Sarton

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Alex Honnold

So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.

Jimmy Newman

Jedi's absence from the Open is understandable. This is the first time in its history that Jedi has competed here. When entries for our six tournaments were received before the season start, the Jedi team wasn't entered in the Open.

Bhagavad Gita

Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.

Bertrand Russell

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.

Brad Rex

That (Cornell's absence) made a big difference. The score might have been closer, but the outcome would have been the same.

Robert Greenstein

My worry is that in the absence of discipline, what we will see a month from now after the initial relief bills are passed, are efforts by policy-makers of both parties and a variety of interest groups to take advantage of the disaster by arguing that all sorts of expansions in tax cuts and certain spending ... are needed,

Michel Sabbah

Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Jeffrey Lacker

On the one hand we've got some good core numbers in the last few months, but on the other hand, we're facing the prospect now of the possibility of the energy price surge passing into core prices, and we don't want to see that.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Jonathan Lawrence

I think if they do a deal for Hughes, the stock will go up. The implied value is there somewhere. But Hughes is a one-time issue. There's fundamental things wrong with the core automotive business.

Richard Giannini

I thought it was two seasons. I thought early on, we needed to show improvement, and eventually they did. They've played very hard. I've seen the improvement, and I think there's a core foundation for the future.

Mike Giese

I thought last week was important without a core group of guys. That says a lot about our other guys.

Chad Johnson

You live and die with your veterans early in the season, and this weekend saw our veteran core step up

Claiborne Mason

I come from the branding business, and these are the sort of the core principles of the business.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ken Bussard

It would be nice to get a few surprises. The kids need to peak at the right time. Everyone of our wrestlers have an opportunity, it is just if they want to take it.

Richard Doherty

It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.

Trevin Cowman

The second half of football season is toughest because you've been doing it a few months already. Practices start to wear (you down). You get home and you don't feel like doing anything but going to sleep and you've got three or four subjects of homework to do.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Kazuo Matsui

I always want to be prepared for the opportunity that is given to me.

Scott Roeben

I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax.

John Redmond

Given Excalibur's location on the Strip, we feel there's tremendous upside by making more moderate improvements.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Bill Walsh

Dennis Green is as good as they get,

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

John Cain

Im sure there was going to be another rent increase, ... Its been happening to everyone down here.

Gray Davis

The odds of something happening are very remote.

Mike Rann

It's very much a symbol of what's happening in South Australia,

Todd Bertuzzi

It just keeps on happening and happening. Just when I see the light at the end of the tunnel, something else appears. Those are the shoes I have to walk in every day.

Eugene Opperman

It is very peculiar that this type of thing should still be happening in this day and age.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Loreen Hewitt

It will probably take him three months to recover.

Dwayne Roloson

I've got two or three months in the summertime for that.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Sebastian Junger

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You want to live, right? (Syn) Absolutely. (Kiara) Then we’re where you are, bathroom breaks being the only exception – unless you’re in public, and then we get to risk additional arrest records. (Syn)

Mike Tyson

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Neil Gaiman

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.