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.

Shona Robison

The increased absence rate may be another symptom of the pressure on workers due to overall staffing shortages, and so this must be sorted out as a matter of urgency.

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.

Brian Henson

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

John Capel

Even at the trials we've never quite seen anything like that, ... All the red, white and blue coming around the corner like that -- all in a straight line, all in stride, all in unison.

John Cohen

Big Blue Nation was out in full force. It was great to see that many blue shirts in the stands.

Michael Kors

the optimism of an endless horizon and blue skies ahead.

Larry Finucane

You have to represent the blue and orange with pride, and dignity, and class, and I think they are responding to that, and I'm very proud about that.

Larry Wachtel

What does Buffett know? He's only worth $18 billion. I think he has warned of this in the past. And, indeed, he's right on blue chips There has been a gravitation toward the cyclical stocks and away from the blue chips.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

E. B. White

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

Elizabeth Perkins

Those blue jeans looked great, you know? I mean the boy looks good. It was such a drag working with Jon Bon Jovi, the rock star, every day. It was so difficult just to walk out on the set.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Terry Cornett

That one was clear over the scoreboard. It was still going the last time I saw it.

Sharon Stoll

Young people today are at a disadvantage. In our society, it's not too clear what is right and wrong.

Dan Bloom

Young people in Taiwan do not have a clear idea of what the event was about and lessons have to be taught to the young people because it's in the past. Once they learn more about it, they will love the place they live in even more.

Brian Tracy

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Lixion Avila

There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

George Carlo

If I was a CIO or corporate IT manager, I would make sure my employees used them safely; they should all have a headset,

Ken Georgetti

How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag on the economy?

Debora Spar

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Wu Zhiguo

The declines were largely due to lack of confidence. Worries over weak corporate governance, brokers' scandals and an equity oversupply weighed on the bourses.

Eric Kuby

We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.

Bob Parker

We've lost a third of our corporate contributions.

Chuck D.

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

Kirk Shelmerdine

Without a big corporate deal it was hard to pull off. People jumped in and helped like the Lopez family. ... They paid the whole tire bill, but I don't think they want us to talk about that. They are some devoted Dale Sr. fans.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Steve Bender

I was told that they wanted to head in a different direction, which was pretty funny.

Liz Davis

I thought it was one step in the right direction. I and others need plays that are meaty and controversial. We need more than mainstream theater. Something challenging, that makes us think about issues.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stephen Jarislowsky

We are miles away from (having) a public that is protected, ... But the wheels are moving in the right direction.

Kenchiro Sasae

We are making coordination in the direction of having a recess.

Katia Winter

If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.

Steve Woll

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

Clint Johnson

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

Francois Girbaud

new shapes and the new fresh woman. We are talking about this woman, and we are looking for this woman for tomorrow.

Kenton Paulino

I don't think of him as a freshman anymore. To come in and play like he did in a game like this shows how mature he is.

Dave Pishkur

If their freshmen test score is in the top 10, we give those 10 kids $1,000.

Chris Carpenter

I was so locked in the whole season and then we clinched, and there were some other things going on that you start looking ahead, ... By keeping myself fresh and staying healthy to get me through the end of the season you lose that little edge.

Chris Ellis

He gives you that look, and you're out of it for a whole practice. He spooks a lot of freshmen out with that.

John Beilein

It's very, very impressive right now for a freshman playing in that type of pressure situation.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Norman Cousins

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Giri Cherukuri

The Pfizer news is weighing down the market,

Brian Duffy

We're trying to be a more fluid, responsive news organization because that's what the times demand,

Anne Bentley

We are working on something in this space, as has been previously reported, but we don't have any new news to share.

James Packer

We're all going to get together to take those rights. We really don't want to do it but News are making us.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Jim Hightower

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.