Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Conrad

I think it is unlikely, absent some new information, some bombshell that comes up in the process, that I would support a filibuster.

Steve Alford

Guys had to play different roles. Their effort while he was absent was pretty good.

James Bailey

Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.

Bill Becker

I think it's fair to say the states would much prefer a strong federal approach ... but absent that, they have no option but to take action at the state and regional levels and to enter into litigation.

Cheryl Hepfer

I think that most judges understand that children require physical one-on-one contact with the absent parent.

Kurt Barnard

I think that Jupiter's conclusions are, absent documented evidence of this development, somewhat optimistic, ... They (consumers) do their research on the computer, then they buy in the store, but they're not going to buy more than they had planned to buy. They might buy different things from what they had planned to buy, but there are only so many dollars to go around.

John Hunt Morgan

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

Kent Conrad

I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily.

W. H. Auden

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

Tomas Flores

Holding the rate in December was just a pause.

Bonnie Henrickson

I think you have to talk about it. I think we should talk about it. We've done enough in November and December and January to put ourselves in a position to talk about it.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Doug Short

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

Paul Butler

Donations got off to a really slow start in December and we were really concerned.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge seen in December was short-lived and not sustained into the new year.

Fred Taylor

It's just one game. I want to be here for the long haul, playing in December and January. It's a good start. I'm happy, but I'm not content.

Ernie Speranza

For a toy company, you really don't know until November and December. You can do all the things you want now, but you better have it right then. One day in December can be worth a week now.

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Douglas Kirkland

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Phil Dow

I think the main impact of the election has been a degree of uncertainty. Once we know who the president will be it will be very much like Y2K -- it will come and go. You have to focus on sales and earnings, and those have been pretty robust.

Hugh McColl

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

William Shatner

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

Robert Ringer

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Willie Jackson

I think it comes and goes, ... It all depends on the situation at the particular time.

John Walters

It also finances our enemies. To fight the terror inflicted by killers, thugs and terrorists around the world who depend on American drug purchases to fund their violence, we must stop paying for our own destruction and the destruction of others.

Tony Banks

He usually knocks those down. He is a dependable kicker. Those things can happen to anybody.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Jacques Bernard

Haiti's future depends on this vote. Good elections are the only solution to saving our nation.

Hassan Shehata

Hassan is someone you can depend on to raise the team's spirit. He might not play a main role on the pitch but we need him to lead the team during the competition.

George Pierce Baker

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Long Yongtu

There are still a few months. It depends on WTO members.

Matt Kelmon

I think the odds of it getting shut down are very, very slim at this point. As an investor, it's going to be a very, very choppy stock between now and February 24. It's not for widows and orphans. That being said, the stock is cheap. When the overhang's gone, the stock will go higher.

Luis Derbez

We think that it will be around January or February maybe

Surapong Suebwonglee

I think that all this will be solved within this week before the rally on February 4.

Frank Arnesen

He is 31 in February and it is the ideal situation for him and us -- and he will stay here for 18 months.

Joerg Kraemer

All this suggests that the ECB is in no hurry to hike interest rates. A move in February can effectively be ruled out.

Song Guoqing

The main reason for the slowdown in February inflation is weaker food price rises.

Richard Calhoun

Offers accepted, or initiated sales (for single-family homes) were way down also, at only 811 (for January 2006). Only January 2001 had fewer, at 761. So 811 is significant and it means February closings will be way down.

Mike Listerman

The month of February was a really good month. The most important thing is what we do in the next two weeks.

Carl Neill

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Lindsey Graham

In these meetings she has been very guarded.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

John Lewis

Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Robert Houser

The way the (school board) meetings are handled, more should be done in the public.

Ed Oakley

We don't see any connectivity that makes sense to us. We're going to start showing up at your meetings more, because our message doesn't seem to get across.

Lauryn Hill

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

James Horner

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

Kirk Hoza

He's big, can run and moves the team when he's in there.

Mike Rudd

He has something we can't coach; he has size and he actually moves pretty well for his size.

Craig Patrick

He made some nice moves on that play. That was great.

Cary Fukunaga

If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.

Paul Lepiane

If she's out there and she moves around at all, they will see her, I think. A lot of it is heavily wooded.

Tina Brown

The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Doug Tumen

If you run every day at race pace you're going to get hurt.

Hugh Morris

If you have raw pace everything else can be worked on,

Margaret Beckett

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

John Flanagan

Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Sarah Howard

It was weird. I had no idea where I was or what kind of pace I was swimming.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Lori Enright

Her scoring potential would be a lot higher.

Kamerion Wimbley

I think their potential scares us the most. I still think they have the talent to be one of the top teams in the nation.

Adam Turville

I think we showed through a little bit. We saw a little of our potential.

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

Pete DiPol

He has the potential to do whatever he wants.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Jake Kuresa

It's just a different feeling. It's just a little more intense, a little more specific on stuff.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Clara Shih

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.