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.

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.

Marshal Cohen

The biggest surprise to me has been this absence of urgency on the part of consumers. I've been doing this for a long time. Other than in 2001, I haven't seen such a lackluster tone during the holidays.

John Milton

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor

Luciano Spalletti

That quick goal made our match difficult, but I must compliment my players for their good reaction and performance. Of course, in front, we suffered from the absence of real strikers.

James Kirkwood

It was not merely a matter of manners. This absence suffered from a final lack of grace at the moment of ultimate confrontation.

Stuart Hoffman

It was a good report right through. As you look through the report there is a noticeable absence of inflation on a broad basis. The numbers, if anything, are steady to lower on inflation and show that it just isn't at all a problem for the economy or the Fed.

Maria Bain

We have some way to go, though, before this drug will be approved for use in people with stroke. We need to learn the extent of its benefits, optimal initiation of treatment time and duration of treatment, as well as long-term side effects associated with treatment.

John Norris

We are bogged down in red tape. We're not able to get things approved and get to (work in) the field.

Bryan Brown

I approved it as to form. I don't review things for policy.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Kelly Ryan

She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

Bob Barr

Mortgage interest rates aren't dropping because of the interest rate cuts, but because of the anticipated economic slowdown and the lack of inflation,

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

Joe Richardson

We just started to work together as a team. It has helped us to focus how to play as a team and how to go and get the win.

Jim Finlen

We just had to relight the fire. We got a little lethargic for a while, but the kids got their focus back. When they're focused, they're at their best.

Stanley McClover

We just had a lack of focus. I think focus is really what hurt us today. That's something a good team always has to keep rolling - focus. You've always got to have focus." ()

Ernie Beck

We weren't ready. I told them it was a focus issue. Hopefully, it's a wake-up call.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Woody Allen

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Christopher Shays

I know and you know people who would not leave without their pets. They will stay. They did stay in New Orleans,

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion to take one of fox.

Bubba Tyer

It's healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.

John Thomson

Then we turn around and three weeks later, we had to leave our homes.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.