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.

Bill Cheney

Given the absence of core inflation, it seems to me as good a time as any to pause and see what's happening for a few months rather than overshoot and risk a recession.

Ben Braun

Getting Leon back is a big plus for us. His absence put us in a hole last year.

Conita Hung

I expect the market to open lower following weakness in regional markets in early trade. The absence of any market-moving news will prevent companies from taking major positions in the market.

Gordon Brown

For we can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience, in circumstances of such controversy, leave government in a way that not only manifested an absence of rancor but won applause, not just from those who agreed with him but those who disagreed with him.

Mark Olson

For most of the time that I have been on the board, there has been very limited pass-through of the additional costs. And the absence of that pass-through has helped keep inflation down,

M. J. Rose

I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Rick Anderson

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Kristen Newlin

We know she likes to go to her right, so it was my job to sit on her right, and we brought the double-team from the left.

Rohit Shetty

We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.

Jim Peters

On the midnight tour that's when we do that kind of work because there is very little traffic. We brought the system down and recertified it for use two hours later.

Brian Urlacher

Only time will tell. We feel like we have good players. We brought Moose in, we brought Fred Miller in on offence,

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

I. Stone

Honestly, it's kind of a fog. We were in shock for a while.

Leonard Orr

That was a tremendous relief, ... This tragedy was a shock to our students and staff.

Justin Gatlin

I was probably in the most shock I have ever been in my life. I was speechless.

Jason LaRue

I think he's going to have an unbelievable year. He's going to shock a lot of people.

Daphne Zuniga

I've been on shows that go for shock value

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.