Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Belafonte

We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong. We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again.

Keith Trauner

We expect very significantly higher prices, higher deductibles and tighter terms and conditions as a result of Katrina. For the next year or two, underwriting results, absent another large catastrophe, should be very, very strong.

Robert H. Connelly

A bank also seems absent from lists of possible buyers, which makes an investment-grade rating harder to achieve and lessens the need for a sale.

David Katz

Absent these fundamentals of public health preparedness, no computer model will help us.

Andrew Melnykovych

Absent some major decline in demand or some major increase in supply, I don't think anybody is thinking we're going to see $4 gas again.

Michael Mello

Absent serious constitutional error, which we know from this order Sessions isn't going to find, I don't think Sessions has any choice but to sentence Fell to death.

Justin McNaull

Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.

Barclays Capital

Absent new developments in credit, the continued synthetic demand, the hedge fund bid, strength in the leveraged loan market, stability in U.S. Treasuries, and credit appetite from Asia will likely continue to support the market overall.

Stephen Johnson

Absent is a guiding strategy in foreign policy, and we haven't had one for 15 years.

Bill Harrison

We acted properly and with integrity in all Enron matters, ... We have not knowingly assisted Enron or any other company in misrepresenting facts about their financial condition.

Kofi Annan

We acted on the report as soon as it came out, ... This is not the end. It is the beginning and we'll act on the other branches of the report as they come out.

Glory Slater

We acted like social services, just giving the ball away.

Carlos Ramirez

We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think we were in violation of our lease. We have always had good relations with the schools and we want to maintain that relation - it's important for the community.

Viktor Yushchenko

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Robert McGowan

We've acted properly in this office, ... I understand the pressures and I understand this group just wants to pay less taxes. If you want to be an assessor and can't take the heat, don't do the job.

Parris Glendening

until the study is reviewed and acted upon by the legislature, which I expect to take about one year.

Giselle Davies

We respect the CAS decision. The IOC had acted at the time based on advice from WADA that the substance was prohibited.

Javy Lopez

When we'd lose a game we acted like nothing happened, not the end of the world. We'd leave quietly and come back like nothing happened the day before.

Ruth Winstrom

We're starting to look more toward the boundary of Palm Springs.

Robert Chambers

A lot of what is drawn into the Urban Services Boundary (for annexation) is BLM land that could not be developed,

Dean Tistadt

This boundary study is going to be horrible. We knew the building would eventually be over capacity, but not to this extent.

Eduardo Paes

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Miguel

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Kirk Johnson

The boundary is so important because it is a precise marker in geologic time,

Tish Dietrich

The boundary changes are going to be a detriment to the voice of the community as a whole.

George Carl

Developers must look at integrated impacts that do not stop at the boundary lines of their properties.

Jack Straw

theological-political divide, which could open up even further down the boundary between so-called Christian heritage states and those of Islamic heritage.

Harry Smith

We always had a dog. Everyone in the family had dogs.

Jan Johnson

We are prepared for at least 250 dogs and cats. Right now we have three to four veterinarians on staff. All the food has been donated from local grocery stores, pet stores, Second Harvest in Milwaukee.

Cory Smith

Where there was water, you would see packs of dogs swimming.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Sharon Smith

Word of mouth is, two individuals have been scouring the area, finding high-price value dogs and selling them with fake papers.

Jerry Moore

We'll be giving people obedience tips for their dogs and how to get their puppies started properly.

Green Day

(A strong beilife of Mike and Tre) "One day, dogs are gonna rule the world...

Jim Mitchel

It's entertaining, ... I've learned that the dogs are not always as obedient as you think they would be. They do get distracted. It's all fun to watch.

Eric Johnson

It's as if these dogs are putting on theater.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Gayle Falkenthal

Where there is a need we will fill it.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Yoshinori Ohno

We want to promote understanding and fill in the gaps today or tomorrow.

David Nicholas

We have secured one cargo in January, two in February. We are looking to fill one of our two slots in March. That's the arrangement so far.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Chevy Chase

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Charlie Hunnam

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Ben Schott

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Eddie Marsan

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Marty Hurney

We're still going over the film. The players aren't even back yet, so we haven't even started those kinds of discussions yet.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Anne Johnson

It's a shame he thought that was the only way he could get an education. There are just all kinds of things that could have been available.

Bob Bandoni

It's a shame to make those kinds of mistakes, but you understand that nobody's doing it on purpose. They put so much pressure on us, that it's understandable that those mistakes are going to be forced.

Dietric Slater

They knocked down shots, open shots, with somebody in their face, with time running down. They knocked down all kinds of shots.

John Owen

They have all kinds of ways of making you pay.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Marc Cherry

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

C. S. Lewis

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

Jon Brooks

We wanted to thank everyone who voted for Spice, and everyone's pet is a winner.

Amitabh Bachchan

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Catherine Deneuve

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

Bob Barker

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

David Wright

You don't want to step in gum. That's my pet peeve. That should go in the garbage, for sure.

Fisher Stevens

Actually, I had a, I had a pet tortoise.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Bipasha Basu

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

Rien Long

When we come together and know our roles and play the way we should play, this is what happens.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.