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.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it

Sharon Brown

I just put my (Kwanzaa) candles out before I came.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Ron Redmond

Despite these efforts, people will inevitably try to stay warm with candles and stoves in their tents, increasing the risk of tent fires. We're working with the authorities to find safe ways to provide heating in camps.

Jim Flaherty

These candles unattended are like a loaded gun on a dining room table. If you can't see the candle, it shouldn't be lit.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Wilferd Peterson

While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?

Keith Richard

This one said to us: don't put on the violins, forget the marzipan, candles and icing and leave me alone'. And for once we obeyed.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

Barry Bonds

Just seeing everybody, all the fans out there was just incredible,

Craig Wilson

I think it's a great step, not only for the club, but for Jason. He's proven over the last two years what he can do. It lets the fans know that Jason will be here for a while. It's outstanding for him and for us.

Adam Dunn

I think it's a great idea. It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at.

Nikki Burish

I think it just shows how much women's hockey is growing and how good it is to all the fans out here.

Stacey Koerner

Her fans are her fans. Even if they do want to see any of these new shows, they're not going to leave her show.

David McGreal

Here's the thing about dunking, especially at the high school level. One, you don't see it that often. It gets the kid excited, the team excited, the fans excited. Then there is the intimidation factor.

Mike Peterson

There is no better feeling than silencing the crowd, ... When we were walking off the field, fans were looking at us like, 'We know it's not over. It can't be over.'

Gordon Strachan

I have had incredible support from the supporters who I have spoken to and come face-to-face with, the real fans have been fantastic.

Jim Wiedie

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a game that we've been looking forward to. Our fans haven't stopped talking about it since last March.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Mark Heiderscheid

John Day does a great job in the first half to keep us in it. There's got to be six or seven opportunities they get and he comes up big on saves.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Bob Stoops

If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Andy Roberts

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Bill Nelson

And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5 percent a year increases are not going to get us to the moon.

Rick Santelli

Every October there's always increases or drop-offs, and I think this year will be no exception.

Avivah Litan

There will be more security holes. In the end, it increases the risks not decreases them.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Joseph Joubert

Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed.

Jurnee Smollett

I have so many passions outside of my passion for acting.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

William J. Clinton

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.