Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Thomas

That would be a disaster because there would be no pressure on anyone to move forward. In the absence of broadly defined and accepted standards, we have to find a way to interconnect systems while at the same time continuing to refine and define standards.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

William Gilmore Simms

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Baruch Spinoza

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Alex Wong

Trading was confined within a narrow range in the absence of fresh stimulus. Overseas markets lack momentum and and there isn't any fresh news that could drive up activity.

Alice Koller

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Mark Fulghum

We'd like to talk to him and see what he knows. He's conspicuous by his absence.

Joe Ward

We don't have any witnesses that saw anybody run from the house. We don't have any DNA. There's really an absence of any evidence of an intruder murdering Lee Jones and then fleeing,

Melissa McCarthy

Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.

Steven Bochco

Bob has a terrific metabolism for that job, ... He may not have been the exciting choice, given all of the drama that surrounded the whole issue of succession. But I think he is absolutely the right choice. He knows that company inside and out.

Jim Calhoun

Bobby Jones looks to me like a guy who can make a living in the NBA just playing defense. He's an absolutely magical player defensively.

Robin Wilcock

Bill Paxton was absolutely wonderful. He knows how to talk to other actors as a director because he's an actor himself.

Nnenna Freelon

Billie Holiday really sang what she had to say in her own way. That's one of the things that was so impressive about her; she was a survivor, and had an absolutely brilliant, innovative concept of her own.

Emily Hall

Biotech has been absolutely spectacular this year. A lot of the investors that are looking for high-growth stories really started to move into biotech in late '99 and early 2000. Despite the shakeout in April, there's still a lot of interest in the sector.

Emily Hall

Biotech has been absolutely spectacular this year, ... A lot of the investors that are looking for high-growth stories really started to move into biotech in late '99 and early 2000. Despite the shakeout in April, there's still a lot of interest in the sector.

Mike Turner

Big Shane has worked hard this summer and you can see so much improvement in the way he moves. He's done some good things in camp and learned the offense, and we're sort of just looking for him to take that next step to where he can be a major contributor for us. He'll absolutely get on the field.

Ashley Wagner

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

James Upham

Very rarely are they separated. Usually at the beginning of the training we do a couple of shootings separated so that gets them in their own rhythm and I can see all the shots. But then they work together the rest of the workout. They ski together, shoot together, test the skis together.

Dan McCarney

There's nothing magical. They're just things we do, variances of drills we do. It's not always the exact same thing, but it's always a tempo setter at the beginning of practice. It helps our defense get in the mindset of being aggressive.

Kikuko Takeda

The trend is still consolidation for the dollar because we saw a lot of weaker-than-expected data from the States at the beginning of this year.

John Pike

Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?

Michael Malone

ISM prices paid came a bit higher than expected and that stoked some inflationary concerns, ... I am bearish on the market right now for two reasons -- the Fed has indicated it's going to keep raising rates and there's been recent evidence that gas prices are beginning to weigh on consumer spending.

David Robbins

We?ve put the whole purpose and thrush into wellness and health, ... We?re beginning to go in that direction with all our activities.

Mark Keller

We've pulled back about 6, 7 percent here. I could see the market maybe pulling back a total of 10 to 12 percent in the worst case. The bottom line is that the economy is still in great shape. Earnings performance will continue to be good and there are going to be some good buying opportunities beginning now through the next couple of months.

Katherine Legge

What an experience. I'm kind of relieved to have it over and done with. From the beginning of the year it's been a build up to this race, there's been a lot of pressure. People have had a lot of expectations of me.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Sri Chinmoy

What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Tom T. Hall

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Tina Weymouth

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tim Ferriss

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

Russell M. Nelson

For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

Stephenie Meyer

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

Veronica Roth

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Ronald Graham

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Thomas Hobbes

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Thomas Hobbes

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

Thomas Hobbes

Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

Thomas Hobbes

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Jim Phillips

I think he's the right person at the right time in the right job.

H. G. Wells

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.