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,

Kevin Stallings

It is important to note this is not a suspension and not basketball related. This is a temporary leave of absence for medical reasons.

Daniel Levy

I will not hesitate to lodge a formal complaint in the absence of fair and significant compensation.

Michael Kane

There is an absence of educated, common-sense, experienced people that a business owner can chat with about all kinds of issues.

George Rockwell

I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.

Bob Bolen

I was just hoping that Marc and the kid chasing him (Apprentice sophomore guard Warren Cherry of Norfolk, who suffered a cut to his finger) were OK. It wasn't like he hung on the rim or did anything illegal. He's a 280-pound man who's pretty agile and jumps pretty well, and he hit that thing with a lot of force.

Brendan Donnelly

I almost thought, 'OK, we're down by one,' ... We're just fortunate Bengie is as agile as he is.

Dan Penick

I didn't want to do that, but the new coach (Tyndall) said I'd be more of an agile (power forward) for him. I'll get to step outside and play facing the basket more.

Matt Trannon

I can help out just being more agile than most big men on the team.

Dieter Zetsche

Our objective is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Philip Shaw

Children with the most agile minds have the most rapidly changing cortex.

Mikko Hirvonen

The fight goes on! I enjoy a good battle and I don't think either of them is going to give up just yet. We made some set-up changes to the centre differential last night and in turning the Focus feels more agile now.

Michael Hugos

Agility means that you are faster than your competition. Agile time frames are measured in weeks and months, not years.

Jeffrey Kalinsky

I would say that more and more women are wearing boots 12 months of the year.

Susan Mogerman

Historians have recreated the parallel timeline that details what Lincoln and Booth each did, hour by hour, the entire day until their destinies met at the Ford Theater.

James Augustine

It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.

China Anne McClain

When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.

Chan Gailey

I think this is the right way. In my opinion, coaches don't get to see replays in the booth, so we don't know whether to waste a challenge or not. That guy in the booth has to make a decision. He's just like a referee. I like the way it works.

Miranda Lambert

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.'

Lloyd Carr

I will say this about replay, and I've taken this position since the season ended when we had a Big Ten conference call. If they're going to have instant replay, they've got to have a coach's challenge. Otherwise, you've got a guy in the booth nobody knows, and he makes decisions on whether plays should be reviewed or not, and we get no explanation.

Turner Trofholz

I didn't do it alone. Coach Boots put me in a position to be successful. He always made sure I was utilizing my strengths and my teammates always helped me out. Throughout my career, we had a great inside-outside combination.

Virginia Woolf

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Jose Barroso

There is no Europe without freedom and solidarity,

Henrik Zetterberg

I think that's one thing that I didn't do (shoot often). In Europe I always looked to pass.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Dennis Bergkamp

I am just happy to play in any game (but) I can't talk about games in Europe when I'm not even playing at home at the moment.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

Roland Hemond

There are so many demands, on general managers especially. Doug listens well to the scouts and player-development people. People are loyal to him because he's loyal to them.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

George Savile

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing

Kevin Connors

I think the general public is going to have a hard time understanding why he's being treated in this manner.

Hank Williams

I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

William Donaldson

He said, if he were Grasso he would have given the money back,

John Davidson

He's always given of his time. He's always tried to do the right thing. Going to Italy, I think this thing may become a big story over there if people want to make it a big story. Otherwise, it shouldn't.

Rod Serling

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

Tre Smith

It's been 100 percent for most of the summer. I've been lifting heavy all summer.

Jim Palmer

They were all heavy smokers. Looking back, I would have loved to be able to maintain friendships with those guys.

Phil Anselmo

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

Lennox Lewis

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Yen Nguyen

A lot of the Vietnamese kids can't really speak Vietnamese anymore. Most of them will have a very heavy accent, because they can't speak it well. So for the kids pageant, the kids will have to be able to speak Vietnamese. And so this is what we're trying to promote: Let them memorize some Vietnamese lines, go up on stage and see how well they present their Vietnamese.

Nick Jones

They need some heavy hitters on their side. They are represented by a lot of manufacturers and carriers, but not in any particular volume.

Paul Trainor

They don't want to go too heavy because if it does pullback then they're paying the higher price so hedging is a two-edged sword in that respect.

Pierre Turgeon

The number is the curse. It's a heavy burden.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Edgar Watson

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

George Bernard Shaw

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Oscar Wilde

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Jack Miller

He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Chi Minh

I'm very moved to be here today. Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

Daniel Levine

I like the warmth in the people. They love to meet foreigners. People take you into their lives and homes.

Robert Harris

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Mark Serdjenian

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

James Brady

I'm not used to being physical in a wheelchair, so I have to get used to that. But other than that, I like it.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Scott Ashley

I want to win. If I have to score 50 points to win, I'll do that.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Dale Jr

I'm really disappointed running like this. I'm surprised it's been this way most of the year, but now we have to go out and try to win races. We quit worrying about points a long time ago.

Roberto Orci

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Randy Carlyle

These points are up for grabs and any team in our position has to win our share of games. If you don't you are not going to make the playoffs.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Rene Syler

It's the kind of movie I'd like to go see and that my friends will always tell me, 'Go see this because it's kind of wild and different,'

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.