Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Lewis

As a result it has been agreed between the WRU and Ruddock that he will stand down with immediate effect. In his absence Scott Johnson will take over as head coach for the remainder of the championship.

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.

Tony Spencer

The only regret I have is the leave of absence. It puts that (uncertainty) of if I'll have a job. I really enjoy working for this department.

Anita Plessis

Fear is present in our lives due to the absence of faith, not knowing our true identity as heirs & the inheritance, already ours as we hear and obey!!

Ambrose Bierce

Woman absent is woman dead.

May Sarton

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Mohammed Nazzal

Sharon's absence removes from the political scene a professional killer who mastered the murder of Palestinians and addressed the most violent, brutal and bloody strikes in the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle. The Palestinian people can only hope that what is coming is better, not worse.

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,

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Carolyn Strauss

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Peter Graf

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

Rachel Sklar

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Keith Stewart

We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

Fisher DeBerry

We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.

Steven Tuen

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Matthew Kelmon

Now Microsoft has no excuses. The cash is going to be put to work.

Rory Robertson

The sharp rise in mortgage rates that is now under way threatens to limit the refinancing boom, limiting the cash that will be dropped into U.S. consumers' hands during the critical holiday-shopping season.

Marc Ganis

They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.

Jim Leljedal

This is not a place that has cash on hand. It's not a bank. These are just people working in an office environment.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

Richard Loth

You really need to look at the turnover (of these two items), ... How fast is the company turning over receivables and inventories into cash compared to its competitors in the industry?

Mark Changizi

Company logos, for example, are meant to be recognized, and we found that logos have a high correlation. Shorthand systems, which are meant to give a note-taker speed at the expense of a commonly recognizable system of symbols, do not.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Janet Jackson

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Edmund Hillary

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

William Wordsworth

Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.

Anthony Concil

Common sense says if you want to help the developing world, you do not discourage people from traveling there.

David Wyss

Common sense says consumers have to stop spending money at some point. But consumers haven't shown much common sense lately, despite griping about gas prices.

Donald Knuth

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

Elizabeth Hagood

No sir, I'm not at all saying that, I'm explaining to you the process that has taken place so far.

Lindy Ruff

It would be tough to stand here and explain to you guys how they had our number if we had lost tonight.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Steve Foley

This is something I've sought after my whole career. I look at myself as the leader on and off the field, vocally and in my actions. I try to lead by example. The point I'm at right now in my career, I'm so happy I'm having the opportunity to do these things, I really can't explain it.

Day One

Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I guess I will have to find another hospital.

Ritchie McKay

Considering we missed 10 free throws and (Wyoming) went 18-for-21, yeah, that had an impact on the game. I think we have missed some opportunities by not making free throws. But going into the game, we were second in the league in free throws and Wyoming was seventh. I'm not sure how to explain that.

Travis Hafner

Baseball's weird sometimes. You can't really explain things. Guess we need to throw another quarter in the merry-go-round.

Christine LaBombard

Twenty-four turnovers, especially at this time of year, is kind of scary. I really can't explain it.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

John Thune

I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

Marty Kaplan

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Marcos Basaglia

The special of the day was low volume. The market was practically tied to Nasdaq.

Garry Beers

It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.

Art Spinella

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some style, though low price triumphs over style any time.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Vance Wilson

Down the middle to most people, but maybe a low strike to him because he's 6-foot-12.

Joe Arbona

Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.

Brian Stewart

You have to have reliability, you have to have low cost, and you have to have safety. Those three things are what this product does.

Richard King

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Christopher Williams

I understand they had a problem yesterday, a student problem, ... I talked with Matthews and he said everything was under control.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Ben Feldman

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Denis Healey

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Adam Rich

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Andrew Bird

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Ambrose Bierce

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Ramonce Taylor

I apologized to the team on the sideline because I was making it about me, and this is a team.

Michael Leahy

It was more than a sideline thing or a novelty. It was a relationship.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Donald Trump

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyber defenses and weaknesses.

Cullen Jenkins

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

Ross Kemp

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

Sun Myung Moon

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

Neil Gershenfeld

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Marilyn French

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

Flannery O'Connor

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

George Washington

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.