Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Conrad

I think it is unlikely, absent some new information, some bombshell that comes up in the process, that I would support a filibuster.

Steve Alford

Guys had to play different roles. Their effort while he was absent was pretty good.

James Bailey

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

Bill Becker

I think it's fair to say the states would much prefer a strong federal approach ... but absent that, they have no option but to take action at the state and regional levels and to enter into litigation.

Cheryl Hepfer

I think that most judges understand that children require physical one-on-one contact with the absent parent.

Kurt Barnard

I think that Jupiter's conclusions are, absent documented evidence of this development, somewhat optimistic, ... They (consumers) do their research on the computer, then they buy in the store, but they're not going to buy more than they had planned to buy. They might buy different things from what they had planned to buy, but there are only so many dollars to go around.

John Hunt Morgan

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

Kent Conrad

I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily.

W. H. Auden

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

Steve Gantt

I wouldn't say it couldn't be done, but I would say it would probably be pretty expensive. That was a decision they made that they wanted to go in that location and were willing to accept responsibility for it.

Jonathan Huie

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kate Moss

I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them. I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co- workers, business associates and others.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

David Shaw

He was a commercial spokesman and a barely adequate actor. That means he needs ... public acceptance, and if he doesn't get public acceptance, he doesn't have much of a future if he wants to make any money.

Errol Logue

Having accepted her scholarship and doing this will allow her to just have fun and enjoy it. She doesn't have to feel pressure now.

Larry Sabato

He knows very well that is an important signal. If you are not interested, you don't accept invitations like that.

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Justin Duberman

Jaime will sign an NHL contract this summer. He doesn't have anything signed yet but it's not an issue.

Carlo Ancelotti

I would say it's impossible because I have a contract with Milan which I'm trying to respect.

John Antil

He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.

Andy Pafko

He just put the contract on the table and said, 'Would you mind signing?'

Willie Randolph

He'll be here in a couple days -- it might even be tomorrow, ... There's nothing in his contract about it. We just told him we wanted him back. We want him to come back and help us.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Rod Marinelli

I was disappointed when it happened to me and I'm disappointed for Joe now. But he did sign a contract and he knew this could happen from the very beginning.

Richard Curtis

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Ronnie Chappell

I think we are eager to finish negotiation of the contract and to make it public. We expect the contract to receive significant public scrutiny.

Don Breaux

He is so physical without the ball. He does things nobody else in the league does.

Travis Hafner

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

Rex Ryan

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

Willie Mays

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Vladimir Lenin

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

Zebulon Pike

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

Paul Jennings

All the teams in the league really need to support one another.

Nick Saban

This is a league decision, and we are disappointed in what it means for Ricky and the team.

Chris Patten

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

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

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.

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.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

DeLoss Dodds

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Ruben Escudero

There were some small, minor things that needed to be upgraded, and we complied with that.

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.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Walter Lippmann

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

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.

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Trenton Lee Stewart

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Loni Anderson

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Ariel Sharon

Once in a while such reports are published, ... I'm not rejecting anyone.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

Madeline Zima

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Sarah Vowell

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

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.

Chelsea Leyland

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

William Hung

I have had no professional training.

Warren Cuccurullo

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

Zach Gilford

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

Kristanna Loken

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

Kim Clijsters

I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.

Kerry Bishe

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Kerri Walsh

I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.

Nate Silver

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

Nelson Mandela

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