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.

Newt Gingrich

has to be a criminal offense of the first order. How can you have an American president asking for money from foreign leaders? ...I think this is one of the most disturbing revelations we've ever had about an American president because it would indicate a total absence of judgement that really, I think, puts the nation in substantial danger.

Muhammad Yunus

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

David Healy

Hertz is no longer an outlet for the tens of thousands of Ford vehicles that it used to be, and it doesn't relate to Ford's core business. I don't think the absence of Hertz will hurt Ford overall.

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.

S. Hughes

I think it's fair to say that, even in the absence of legislation, we've had widespread adoption of privacy practices and policies. The private sector generally has an incentive to do things in a good way.

Don Williams

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

James P. Carse

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

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.

Ray Lewis

I was leaving ... Cobalt nightclub, ... And on my way to my limousine ... a fight broke out way up past my limousine. We saw it, I grabbed my people, we hopped in my truck, we left. While we're driving off, we heard gun shots. We left the scene, and that is basically it.

Luke Yankee

I was just always struck, in the original one-act play, by the intensity of the relationship between these two women. It's a very pure and loving relationship, and those lifelong friendships are so rare and unique. . . . One of them is getting ready to make her transition, and basically she's getting all of her ducks in a row. And her best friend does not know this and is terrified of death.

Sandra Oh

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

Michael Kennedy

I was interested in photography when I started college at Antioch. I took a basic photo course there, and other photography classes. I got my first real job through a work-study program at Antioch. It was working as a helper in a mental hospital. Strange, but I'm sure that had something to do with where I am now.

John Henry Carver

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Jeff Tarter

I wouldn't be surprised if someday Office comes as part of a basic cable service, for a few dollars a month.

Kate Warne

I would not read too much into the record at this point, ... The Canadian market's been doing very, very well this year. It's doing well for all the right reasons: strong earnings, basic good environment for equities. I expect we'll see more records this year but today's doesn't change the overall view much.

Graham Watson

Jacques Chirac will probably discuss the Iranian nuclear stand- off as well as the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He must also speak up to promote democracy in the Middle East.

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Catherine King

He was a bear. It was like he needed that conflict in the morning.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Chris Cook

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Ira Loss

I think it's an obvious conflict, not potential.

John Gotti

I think you'd be better off with a lawyer who has no conflict problems.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Carl Hiaasen

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Jake Johnson

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Charles Gargano

He is the governor and he thinks it's important for the future, whether he's here or not,

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Ken Hill

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Henry A. Kissinger

Kay ennobled all of her human relationships, ... In the pain of this moment, none of us would trade places with those whose lives were never touched by Kay Graham.

Harvey Ball

just reflects what is inside every one of us - a smile is what we want to see when we look at another human being.

Irwin Cotler

I think issues of human rights have to be taken seriously and I think they will be addressed seriously in the discussions we will be having, not in a token way,

Jim Gibbs

He was a wonderful human being. We're all going to miss him.

John Clarke

Greenways are paths where the natural and human landscapes coincide.

Seth Shostak

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?

Dan Gilroy

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

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Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Mike Ruddock

I'm gutted he's out for the Six Nations but more gutted for Kevin.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Lionel Jospin

I remain attached to my nation.

Lord Byron

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

John Schafer

It really is kind of a little United Nations here.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Saeb Erekat

His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our refugees. What kind of peace can we make with those words?

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Robby Krieger

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Atal Vajpayee

He (Lone) was working for peace; that is why he was killed.

Robert E. Lee

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.