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.

Jimmy Newman

Jedi's absence from the Open is understandable. This is the first time in its history that Jedi has competed here. When entries for our six tournaments were received before the season start, the Jedi team wasn't entered in the Open.

Bhagavad Gita

Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.

Bertrand Russell

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.

Brad Rex

That (Cornell's absence) made a big difference. The score might have been closer, but the outcome would have been the same.

Robert Greenstein

My worry is that in the absence of discipline, what we will see a month from now after the initial relief bills are passed, are efforts by policy-makers of both parties and a variety of interest groups to take advantage of the disaster by arguing that all sorts of expansions in tax cuts and certain spending ... are needed,

Michel Sabbah

Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Mike Lieberthal

You're at a slight disadvantage (batting eighth) because the pitcher is behind you. That makes it harder because you don't see as many pitches to hit.

Dave Eskelsen

You're always going to get a certain number of citations. It's similar to what might happen if a traffic officer sat behind each of us as we were driving.

Cal McCombs

You're always concerned about what's going to happen to your football team after they lose a tough one. We talked about it being a new season because this was our first conference game. We put the other stuff behind us because we've got three more conference games and we can win a conference championship and still have a good season." ()

Bill Rogers

This is back room politics at its worst. The public should be outraged because they're doing it all behind closed doors, and this is the person they're going to have to live with.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Joe Gibbs

You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.

James G. Frazer

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

Jessica Szohr

After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

Michael Strahan

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

Chad Myers

From one side of our camera to another, from very gray to blue. That's the way a hurricane is.

Elizabeth Kelly

Go on in, ... The testimonials are in the back of the mine on a shelf. They go back a long ways. Your camera will work just fine in there.

Jennie Garth

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Ronda Rousey

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Reyne Rice

The cool thing about that is that kids are role-playing what they see around them, and they see their siblings using digital cameras and using digital phones. They see their parents using those, and so that's what they want to role-play with.

Chris Wilson

To me this is a real look at what's going on over there. It's right from their cameras to the site.

Kelly Wearstler

I do not like being in front of the camera.

Sherry Stringfield

The lines are the last thing I have to worry about. When we film those scenes, we go through several rooms at once, without the camera stopping.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Brian Lamb

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Matt Farley

We hear speeches about how the rebuilding is in process and technically it's true, but those positive speeches overshadow just how little is being done and just how much damage there is here.

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Jay Clark

Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fruit loss, but more recently by the increased movement of citrus canker to new locations.

Chantal Petitclerc

Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would damage the track.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Michele Aurella

If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.

Terry Ryan

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Janet Reno

Money laundering is a problem for the whole world, ... We're here to work with you to be as effective a partner as we can.

Gary Holt

We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.

Doug Campbell

This is a very exciting development for us, and will give us even greater production capabilities to produce some of the effective programs in the world.

David Boies

There are a variety of ways people can market browsers. The question is: Are they effective ways to market browsers?

Kevin Lam

The project paid for itself in a single month. Every 30 minutes your gain is millions of dollars. It's effective when you work with a large workforce.

Ruth Frechman

The only effective solution is to make them off-limits.

Aaron Robinson

We had very effective meetings. They were long, but we got a lot done. Each group got a fair chance.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Michael Bay

I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

Ray Bradbury

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Sharon Shinn

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Shane Black

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Chad Brown

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

Tom Costello

It's less than what I was expecting, ... It would be of more value if we had that corner.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Jim Ryun

I'm sure there will be more things done before it's over,

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Richard Baldwin

I'm sure there's going to be a deal. At a country-by-country level, everyone can win.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Tacitus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Mason Cooley

Tears are great peace-makers.

Leonard Cohen

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

John D. MacDonald

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.