Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shona Robison

I would support a reduction in sickness absence, but the executive must address pressures that force too many people to work too many hours in stressful conditions.

Nick Saban

He's going to have to carry a little more than maybe he's ready for. We're very pleased with his development, but in the absence of Ricky, we're going to lean on him a little more than we would like to.

John Pickett

Today is a one-piece news day, and we'll have several such days ahead as the market focuses on the economy in the absence of any other major indicators until December. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on this rally because this market can still turn on a dime on any negative news. I think we'll be stuck in a trading range until then.

Cynthia Ozick

I think at this moment, in the absence of Bellow, that Roth is the most courageous American writer. There's nothing he's afraid to say.

William Raspberry

It isn't the incompetence of mothers that is at issue, but the absence of half of the adult support needed for families to be most effective.

John Barr

It is not RNZ's policy to comment on individual staffing matters, however media reports relating to Mr Plunket's absence from RNZ have been inaccurate,

Bill Woods

In the absence of timely and accurate data, that makes effective oversight more difficult.

David Trimble

In the absence of those certainties, in the absence of those commitments, we have decided it's premature to form a shadow administration,

Charles Dickens

In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Mark Haddon

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

Richard O'Brien

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Michael Apted

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Theresa May

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Jose Barroso

There is no Europe without freedom and solidarity,

Henrik Zetterberg

I think that's one thing that I didn't do (shoot often). In Europe I always looked to pass.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

William J. Clinton

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Mary Badham

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Tony Robinson

We want to try to solve these situations at the lowest possible threshold.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Rob Enderle

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

Rob Conway

Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Richard P. Feynman

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Richelle Mead

It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Ronda Rousey

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

William S. Burroughs

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

Jimmy Rollins

Keep him sick all year long. I have this new virus, Ryan, I want you to try it.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day, ... She didn't come to school. So she was very fortunate.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,

William Wilberforce

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy. I am healthy. I am not sick anymore,

Valerie Bertinelli

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Robert Rauschenberg

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

William Howard Taft

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

David Levithan

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.