Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

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.

Brandon Gray

People want to be inspired by the movies, they want to have a cathartic experience and they want to laugh and they crave that and when its not there they notice that absence and that's what they talk about instead of going to the movies,

Terry Allen

I believe we would miss an opportunity if we did not take a real good look at why there is an absence of African-Americans.

Chris Kaman

No offense to Kenyon, but I think (his absence) helps them. Look at their record without him.

Jim Calhoun

Obviously, we are disappointed that Jeff will miss the game at Providence, but the rule as stated in the rule book is very clear. Other players will have to step up and make up for his absence and I have complete confidence that will happen.

Marc Kennis

Given the current operational performance, the potential to free up large sums of cash and the absence of larger acquisition opportunities, I expect Philips may engage in further share buybacks or pay out higher dividends in 2006.

Roger Cox

We are disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the company has as much as admitted that it has no interest in further direct negotiations. Management has been largely unresponsive to our attempts to negotiate in earnest for a fair contract.

Mike Hansen

(Garner) admitted that he didn't intend to hit him. But a kid walks to the plate and blows you a kiss, yea there's some bad feelings.

Mark Volpe

Last week Mr. Ozawa returned to Japan and was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a bronchial infection and a shingles infection that has affected one of his eyes. Mr. Ozawa has been released from the hospital and is currently at home in Japan, following his doctor's instructions to take a period of several months' rest.

Matt Damon

He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.

Lin Yn-tang

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Franco Frattini

It will be up to each member state to decide whether and how many people are admitted every year, but Europe will deal with common standards.

Ricardo Vazquez

It was a good year for students. Some campuses admitted many more students than in the previous year.

Andrea Phillips

A patient must have a terminal diagnosis to be admitted to such a facility.

Chuck Schultz

They seem to forget that there were two other witnesses who said Michael Morales admitted to killing her.

Joe Harden

Coach likes that I'm tough and I'm not afraid to stick my nose in there. He feels that I can bring a toughness to the team. I just like to compete.

Stephen Page

Now it's time to show our stuff. It's the big test, and we've got all the confidence in the world right now. We've got confidence in our inside guys, and they're not afraid to kick it out to us. And we have all the confidence in our rebounding, too.

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Tom Robinson

Sometimes he was in a no-win position. He had to make some tough decisions over the years, and he wasn't afraid to make them. He was a good person, too. I wouldn't have minded seeing him retire from this position.

Jeanne Meyer

This is one item where people aren't afraid to step to the plate and spend some money.

Anna McCloy

You see a lot of his personality, which is the reason I married him. I was so afraid it wasn't coming back, but it's there." ()

Scott Kahan

Young people are always afraid to commit money long-term.

Gabrielle Union

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Jeff Gordon

There are some people that maybe have gotten caught up thinking I'm just a guy that lets things go. I feel like it takes a lot to make me mad, but I still get mad. Lately I haven't been afraid to show it.

John Meyers

There has always been a choice out there. It's a matter of taking the time to see what's available. You want to be sure it's a company that's really dedicated to insurance.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Gary Pinkel

Those quarterbacks love the shovel pass. They've got a choice to shovel it and take the passing yards or pitch it and let that guy take the yards.

Charli Thorne

This team is making me look good right now. We had no choice. We had no margin of error and, honestly, because we had seen everybody. We saw what they had, and we saw what we had, and we knew we were the better team.

David Fish

Video choice is important to consumers, this company and the future of broadband. For these reasons, we openly encourage the efforts of consumer and related organizations that support video choice reforms.

Mike Ryan

We feel our hospital is the employer of choice in Beaufort County, even in the entire region. Still, in this environment, you've got to do anything you can to properly and effectively recruit. It takes skill.

Andrew Benson

You felt you had no choice but to shoot her in the face?

Henri Nouwen

.....every time there are losses there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper

Sharon Hill

The response from people makes me feel so good. It makes me feel like maybe I've made the right choice.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Amelia Torres

At present consumers should be considering energy savings.

Steve Case

We do not intend to limit content diversity on any of our systems. If we limit content, if we do not promote a diversity of voices ... then consumers will waste no time migrating to other Internet and media services.

Richard Lobb

There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

James Holden

What consumers want is for us to mass produce moon-shot technology but at down-to-earth prices, ... isn't quite here yet, at least in the form consumers will accept.

Chris Viale

What consumers don't realize is that they are spending fake money which nevertheless has to be repaid.

Alfred Tolle

We want to become a destination for content producers and consumers -- especially user-generated content.

Patrick Ryan

no credible evidence to suggest that others were involved.

Eric Knight

There are serious and very credible parties interested.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Les Brown

Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Carson McCullers

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

Charles Churchill

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Bellamy Young

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

bell hooks

A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Joe Torre

You go up there and you try to reason with yourself and there's nothing that makes sense to even think about. They're all very capable.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Adam Carolla

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Bernie Sanders

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

Bernie Sanders

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

Douglas Adams

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Robert Adams

For some people, there must be. I'm just the wrong guy.

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.

Joshua Harris

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Greg Behrendt

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.