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.

Frank Busch

The team sort of caught fire. I think we took advantage of just about everything we could today.

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

Lesa Mitchell

The United States would seem to have a comparative advantage in maintaining its innovative leadership through the high caliber of its scientists and its strong protection of IP. Industry and universities must be alert to removing obstacles to joint research, or emerging countries will overtake us in innovation breakthroughs, and the burst of discovery that has been driving our economy for the past half-century will be over.

Mike Shanahan

The way they controlled the tempo of the game ... once you did have the ball, you had to try to take advantage of it. They did a good job stopping us defensively in the first half. They just played better and coached better than we did.

Trevor Rowe

This gives you an indicator at the time of planting, or soon thereafter. The enormous advantage of this is that it allows us to begin preparing and responding much earlier in the game than if we wait to see what kind of harvest we're going to have.

Steve Alford

This gives us a chance to get some rest. It's been a long grind for us. So we want to take complete advantage of the break.

Mary Boyle

This gives them an incredible advantage over their challengers.

Rob Enderle

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they've had in history from Microsoft.

Eric Henderson

This game means a lot to our whole team, specifically our defense, because we feel they took advantage of us, ... Every game is very important. I think those guys were the only team that really ran the ball down our throat last year. They really played well.

Richard Bach

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

Curtis Granderson

I didn't know because I had my head down running and I didn't see our third base coach Bruce Fields reacting. I thought it either bounced in or was foul but I saw them arguing so I thought I better go touch home plate before they call me out for going to the dugout.

Deron Clark

I was arguing the fact that the catcher had to go so high to get the ball and bring it down to tag our guy on the head. It was unfortunate the way things ended, but we shouldn't be caught in those situations. I probably should have pinch run for Mike in that situation, but I was thinking how tough it would have been had we gone extra innings without his bat in the lineup. It was a decision that didn't work out for us.

William Donaldson

You can go on and on and on, talking and arguing about it. But at some point, you have to say, there are charges and we'll make the charges,

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Ann Richards

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

Ray Comfort

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

Val Kilmer

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Rod Smith

It's not the worst thing in the world to send back money to folks, I've never had a gripe about it. The worst thing to do is to send back money to folks when you didn't pay the bills you had and that's what I'm against.

Robert Uithoven

You can't just do a 180 shift overnight to renewable energy. We need companies to invest and consumers fed up with energy bills to create the demand.

Richard Kessel

This plant is extremely important on Long Island if we want to keep the lights on, clean up the environment and keep our bills down.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Dave Ramsey

Once you agree, then pinky swear and spit-shake that you will both stick to the budget.

Jane Lindskold

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

Dan Davis

The school records are both within reach for her. She's capable of going lower in the 800. We think she's capable of winning both of those events in the state meet, also.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Mark Goodman

It would be projected to be at a certain place at a certain time, and then Mother Nature would stop it. It messed up our timing.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Brett Festerling

The way he gets out of certain situations, the passes he makes ... he sees things out there that most guys don't.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Robert Lynch

If the difference is made up through cuts to public services - like transportation infrastructure, education - then the overall effect on the economy of incentives can end up being negative.

Becky Lucidi

I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make cuts and earn checks, and you can't play like that.

Bruce Allen

We feel good we have 46 guys we know we would dress to play the Vikings, ... We just have to see what else is out there. We've gotten about 18 of the teams' cuts right now. We're going to work (Saturday) night making sure we know everybody who's on the wire.

Heino Ruland

The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.

Norman Foster

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Dick Gephardt

We can talk about targeted tax cuts like we've been talking about, the president's been talking about. Maybe that can be married up with a proposal to raise the minimum wage.

Paul Wolfowitz

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

Bob Pratt

T he whole nation needs to come together and do whatever we can on all levels, so that we can help the people struck by this disaster.

Richard Howitt

This was the latest ghastly episode in what was a whole disaster. I'm just so glad it's ended and they have been set free,

Rodney Bollinger

We sort of recognized how vulnerable our infrastructure is to a disaster like storms or fire. This gives us one way to give each other a helping hand. We hope that it never gets used.

Tom DeLay

We will raise the Katrina disaster as the top priority for the House, but at the same time we have other work that we will be working on,

Robert Johnson

Usually, they're sent overseas when there is a disaster,

Octavia E. Butler

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Cheryl Johnson

We know a lot of people lost their glasses in the disaster. And we just want to be here to help out.

Antonio Villaraigosa

The reality is when you have a disaster of that proportion, you need the federal government, ... I think the question is, is the federal government prepared to provide the resources that we need? I think that, clearly, by what we've seen in Louisiana, the jury's out.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Robert Milton

The year kicks off with the efforts on Jazz.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tim Buckley

I've had some initial talks. But other than that, I can't comment.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Louis Navellier

We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.

Donald Trump

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Shane Carruth

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Russ Diamond

It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong.

Matt Meinrod

It's seems like every time, people want to see how I've come back from an injury. Considering I only had a month of workouts, I'm happy.

Jim Tracy

Then, it'd be interesting to see what we'll have going into the month of September.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Loreen Hewitt

It will probably take him three months to recover.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

Dalai Lama

If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

Sophocles

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Max Lucado

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Mason Cooley

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

Erich Fromm

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Maya Angelou

I said, 'Don't worry about it -- I know our culture.'

Carrie Fisher

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

Horace

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.