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.

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.

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.

Cynthia Ozick

I think at this moment, in the absence of Bellow, that Roth is the most courageous American writer. There's nothing he's afraid to say.

Pat Neal

I think a reduction in 2005 was mostly because of the absence of supply of lots. Quite a few of my builder friends are out of land.

Stephen Greene

It had been our assumption that in a domestic emergency, the emergency phase would be effectively handled by the various agencies charged with handling domestic emergencies. Katrina has shaken those assumptions for us, and we've responded accordingly in the absence of a prompt and effective initial response.

Dean Ryan

It is obviously a significant blow to us because he is a key member of our squad. But his absence will provide an opportunity for somebody else to come in and perform for us at this important stage of the season.

William Raspberry

It isn't the incompetence of mothers that is at issue, but the absence of half of the adult support needed for families to be most effective.

John Barr

It is not RNZ's policy to comment on individual staffing matters, however media reports relating to Mr Plunket's absence from RNZ have been inaccurate,

Buddy Rogers

I think it's a good training exercise. We benefit from that, all the agencies will. It just shows that we can respond when we're needed.

Slade Gorton

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

Carl Pope

He defers to economic interests over the public health, to executive agencies over the Congress, and to secrecy over the public's right-to-know, ... He's always tweaking the facts to the benefit of insiders.

Gale Norton

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

Dale Hall

What we have here at the Classic is power in numbers, especially when you have groups like BASS joining forces with companies like Berkley and Bass Pro Shops, combined with the support of state fish chiefs and federal agencies speaking with one voice. We become a powerful entity and through this initiative we can make the rest of the country understand just how important our natural resources are economically and socially.

Heidi Prescott

What we find so objectionable is that these public-service agencies are involving themselves in recruiting hunters and now, in some cases, have even made it part of their strategic plans.

Gerry Adams

have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.

Carl Pope

Having previously represented oil, mining, and timber companies in her private life, Norton consistently gave those interests special treatment while pulling agencies she oversaw away from their role as stewards of the land.

James Morgan

I think it shows how many agencies United Way is involved with and the breadth of their support for these agencies,

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Paul Tagliabue

Under our league policies, owners are not supposed to be talking about re-locating their team during a season. We've got a specific set of guidelines on that. It's a policy that was negotiated with the U.S. conference of mayors, and my assumption is that every owner is complying with the policy.

Lara Ramsburg

He expects the Mountaineers to do well and has made plans accordingly. We're going on the assumption they're going to win. He has full confidence.

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Doug Brown

Our assumption was this was a legally taken bear in a hunting season in another state. It just wasn't disposed of properly.

Jeff Henley

Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology spending will not show significant improvement probably for another six months.

Roxane Gay

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Andy Hernandez

If you start with the assumption that people go to church to steal from the offering plate, you'd make people very uncomfortable. After a while, they're going to stop going to your church.

Tommy Spina

He deeply regrets the circumstances which have led to him being charged with a criminal offense in our federal system.

Ryan Walker

He said we were the ones. It wasn't any kind of an official lineup. They took us in and charged us with trespassing.

Graham Nash

It is a little off-putting to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and then be charged to go there.

Paul Tagliabue

I think, which frequently happens in emotionally charged situations, people are unfairly reduced to being caricatures when there's no reason for that,

Brett Myers

When Howard hit that home run, I thought here we go, ... You know and when Kenny (Lofton) made those two catches in the sixth that really got us charged up.

Matt Link

We survived the first ten minutes where they really dominated play. The first and last minutes of nay emotionally charged game like this are crucial and our guys stayed strong.

John Ashcroft

Today a U.S.-based charity that claims to do good works is charged with funding the works of evil,

David Soul

I went to Mexico to study social and political history during that really charged period in Mexican history in the early sixties, that I found my path in a way. It was a time when students wanted to take control of their own country, not just in Mexico but also in Europe and the United States.

Stanley Brand

He's going to face hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses if he gets charged and decides to defend himself. It's hard to focus on that and focus on re-election.

Thomas Piketty

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

Salma Hayek

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Charles Prince

International GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is expected to grow substantially more than U.S. GDP over the next few years.

Corey Stoll

In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis.

John Pomfret

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

Stephane Deo

I'm not talking about a massive acceleration, but little by little you can have more support from the domestic side of the economy in Europe.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Ralph Willard

Kevin got hit in the face during practice the other day and was in agony. His status is up in the air, and if he plays I'm not sure how effective he will be.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

James King

I think it?d be more effective if you got your top off.

Joe Girardi

I actually thought Vargas was better tonight. He was down in the zone. He just threw a lot of pitches. I thought he was more effective tonight than in his last start.

Frank Robinson

He can throw it at any time and throw it for strikes. It's a very effective pitch for him. I want to learn how he throws it, keep it in mind, maybe teach it to someone else.

Kevin Towers

He's a fly-ball pitcher who should be effective in our ballpark, especially with our improved outfield defense. He can handle the bat, too.

Dorien Bryant

He's a really knowledgeable guy and he knows the game very well. We've got to know what everybody else is doing in order to be effective and the fact that he does is good. He can help us understand that.

Scott Owens

I thought we shot the puck great this weekend. We had good movement on our power play. We generally have a good power play, but it was very effective tonight.

Mitt Romney

just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.

Mark Noll

I think it's an excellent opportunity to help out, ... It's also going to be a learning experience. This is the largest mobilization of emergency personnel we've ever seen.

Tony Butler

We're probably looking at short term, that's from now until January. But there are also emergency loans which start from one month and can be extended to three so they are a possibility as well.

Clifford Galey

We've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.

Les Miller

I think we're in an emergency situation right now,

Jerry Kilgore

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

Jane Farmer

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

Jim Compton

In the future, the federal government needs to give us guidelines if this is such a national emergency so that I can work that in my plans.

Patrick Collins

I probably have as many meetings about pandemic influenza as I've ever had on anything else in emergency management.

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Garrett Gomez

He's a grinder. I was very impressed with the way he handled everything.

Ari Fleischer

It could have and should have been handled differently.

Jonathan Diamond

It is not something handled by this office.

Larry Campbell

I don't (foresee) any problems, ... If there were, those problems are handled immediately.

Steve Holland

He handled it well, and he'll take that and learn from it. He'll be better for it next time.

Eduardo Perez

He handled it very well. That tournament was probably better for him than being at Spring Training.

Dave Bristol

He handled it like he always does, in the typical Pete Rose way -- like nothing happened,

Catherine Day

He has handled everything well and settled in nicely, ... It has been kind of uneventful.

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Jiang Zemin

Handling well the issue of the people's livelihood is the fundamental task of the party and government.

Dick Ward

There are so many ways by which materials handling technologies and processes serve that need.

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Dan Edwards

We're pleased she is safe and that the police are handling this situation.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

Susan Phillips

He was just wound as tight as a clock. He was under tremendous pressure, but obviously handling it, and not just handling it, doing well.

J. Taylor

I'd like to thank the management for handling this issue in such a sensitive way,

Brit Hume

He was unapologetic of the handling of the information and insisted it was appropriate.

Jay Wright

It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.

Clint Hurdle

I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.

Sam Heughan

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

Masafumi Nakayama

Investors initially guessed Japan's high-techs were quite independent of the U.S. market, but everyone's been quite worried since there have been so many profit warnings.

Ron Hays

If you look at the initial search and rescue (after Katrina), ... it was neighbors on boats.

Bob Davis

CMGI shareholders were disappointed in the initial market reaction (to the USA proposal), and so was I, ... It's time for us to move on. Lycos is a rock-solid company, and it's time to let Lycos be Lycos.

Bobby Jackson

His initials are PG, but I want him to be rated R.

Stephen Hadley

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

William Hague

Initial negotiations have been positive. It will be a matter of months rather than a year.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Falkenrath

I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission,

Kathleen Blanco

he has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Simon Winchester

The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie,

Larry Neumann

He's a difference-maker in every phase of the game.

Cheri Blauwet

Here, we see it as another phase of life.

Mo Cheeks

I thought everyone had to pick up every phase of our game.

Dennis Latta

We're in the exploratory phase right now, but we've been working on this for a long time and think it's a possibility.

Mamie Gummer

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

Rose Leslie

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Sarah Zettel

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

William Ralph Inge

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Neena Moorjani

We are working toward prompt ratification of CAFTA.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.