Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

Robert H. Connelly

The AMLU membership has voted to reject minor league baseball's contract offer and voted to not accept offers to minor league spring training absent improvements in the spring training working terms and conditions.

Ken Salazar

That would make me a completely absent father and that's unacceptable,

John Carlisle

With the development along that area, this projected was deemed to be a priority. Absent to that, Route 18 is becoming much more heavily traveled . This project will take steps to mitigate traffic along that corridor.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Sander Levin

The president has made a commitment to rebuild and we need to fulfill that commitment, ... We cannot be an absent partner, or one who reneges, especially since the federal government failed miserably in taking action when the hurricane first hit.

Tom Hanna

I think probably too much time has passed, absent someone actually confessing or someone that was involved bringing evidence forward.

Ryan Kavanaugh

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

James Bailey

Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.

Yanni

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Gil Gerard

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Zadie Smith

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

Will Shetterly

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Chen Shui-bian

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Candice Johnson

The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody.

D. James

We have always stated our desire to do a long-term contract with the Colts, or work out a trade.

Lavan Gopaul

We've got seven normal trading days until futures closeout and there is a large open interest on the March contract of about 200-odd thousand. It is probably going to be one of the largest closeouts with the result that we can see rollovers and a lot of them.

Veronica Barrett

We're working to the contract, which means we're still working to last year's contract, and we're not putting in any extras. We're working the time that we are contracted for, and nothing more.

Alan Mulally

We're very pleased with today's contract ratification by our machinists and look forward to their return to work,

Tim Waters

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

John Wesley

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Lauren Roscoe

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.

Earl Campbell

You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man.

Ray Harris

I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.

Don Phillips

The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,

Terrell Buckley

It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.

Wayne McCants

We have membership in all of the surrounding counties. Our participation is growing.

Pranab Mukherjee

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members. The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members, ... The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Augie Ghio

We are well prepared for what we normally see 98 percent of the time, that minor to moderate incident.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

Ian Snell

I think it's time for me to get a major-league job. I really don't know what else I have to prove in the minor leagues. I've won at every level. I've done everything I can do.

David Shulman

Our logo is located in the same place as one of our minor competitors,

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

David Church

The quality of people prepared to come here and enthuse about the opportunities the place offers is fantastic.

J. Wince

Well, it doesn't feel any different than any other day. To know that what you are doing is what you are supposed to be doing offers a little validation that you aren't crazy.

Adriano Galliani

We don't sell our jewels. We haven't received any offers for Andrei Shevchenko and, in any case, we would refuse them. Andrei will stay with us for many more years to come.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Chris Cornell

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

Ashley Tisdale

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Robert Kiyosaki

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Barry Mann

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Richard Harwood

If they rule to reject our contract, we will strike.

Charles Stanley

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Zack Moritz

That whole spring and summer, I was in the gym.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.