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.

Bill Cheney

Given the absence of core inflation, it seems to me as good a time as any to pause and see what's happening for a few months rather than overshoot and risk a recession.

Ben Braun

Getting Leon back is a big plus for us. His absence put us in a hole last year.

Conita Hung

I expect the market to open lower following weakness in regional markets in early trade. The absence of any market-moving news will prevent companies from taking major positions in the market.

Gordon Brown

For we can now understand why it was that a man true to his conscience, in circumstances of such controversy, leave government in a way that not only manifested an absence of rancor but won applause, not just from those who agreed with him but those who disagreed with him.

Mark Olson

For most of the time that I have been on the board, there has been very limited pass-through of the additional costs. And the absence of that pass-through has helped keep inflation down,

M. J. Rose

I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Bill Daly

No promises, but I do believe that, yes.

Hilary Clinton

No, sir, ... I don't believe she gave me this tie.

Abbas Zaidi

After the England tour we believe that visiting teams should no longer have apprehensions about playing in Karachi or any other venue.

Sean Taylor

After the East Moline game, I really believe these guys know they can find a way to win. They never believe they're out of it.

Ralph Goodale

After reviewing the responses, I do not believe it would be appropriate to bring forward guidelines on such an important issue in this environment, where it runs the risk of being politicized,

Pete Owens

After reviewing the complaint, we believe the claims are without merit. Once facts are known in the case, we believe the lawsuit will be dismissed.

Mark Richt

He's banged up and he's sore, ... We've got to see how he progresses. But if he's in a weakened position, you could make it a lot worse so we're being cautious with it right now.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Derrick Brooks

This was about helping the team and putting us in the position to keep a lot of our players here that we currently have and, at the same time, give us something to go get a player that we felt could help us win a Super Bowl. That's the way it's always been when I've done this, a two-way street.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Eric Takamura

Right now it's only if the current changes, and in the last four days the current has only gone out to sea.

Brian Flynn

Only four of the current 20-man squad for this last match will be too old for the next campaign, so it has been difficult for them,

Bern Elliot

Because of its strong relationship with some of the carriers, as well as a relationship with Microsoft, that positions it differently than just a standard new entry. At this point they have few enterprise deployments, so their strength right now draws from their current position with service providers.

David Moskowitz

Just because we have to study history doesn't mean we can't try to relate it to the current time. Once you start talking about something they're already up on, it draws them in.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Doug Thornton

She's taken a hit. She's been given the ultimate test.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Ted Parrish

Intel has a history of undershooting in its initial guidance.

Carl Smith

I'm 100 percent sure if Dr. Clayton was there, this would not have happened. It's all because the people in the guidance office had no idea what they were doing.

John O'Connor

It just seemed like there were more questions this time. It was just simply a reinforcement of what our guidance is.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Mark Clifford

We scored some points; our offense competed better (than last week).

Sam Buttrick

We think it's been done in such a way that it's likely to stick.

Kevin Hassett

There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Rick Carlisle

I don't know if there's a realistic chance, but I suppose there's always a chance. It's more likely (he'll play) in Sacramento.

Bruce Missett

I don't know if anything was ever likely to happen.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Al Knutson

We got into the 18s (minutes) and we should be in the lower 17s.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Chris Coleman

He's a solid midfield player and is experienced.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

John Walters

Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.

Paul Rudd

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Joe Glowacki

You could see it moved him, there were tears in his eyes.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Jarret Stoll

A lot of players moved around in the off-season and a lot of teams are better. And we're one of those teams.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Pete Domenici

Now you know as well as I know that many of them are not going to do anything, but if a senator wants to offer them as a sense, not as legislation, they may do that,

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Rep. Steele

If this is an option we can offer and do it the right way, then I think we ought to do it.

Joe Gottfried

He said everything went well, went fine. No offer was made.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Erik Hanson

The strong point of our team is defense.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Ron Bonjean

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

Chuck Palahniuk

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

Thomas Sowell

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Nick Faldo

My time with my family is a priority.

Michel Martelly

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

Martina McBride

I make our family traditions a priority.

Madonna Ciccone

My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.

James Steen

On Jan. 15, we had thousands and thousands of applications from students who in prior years would have been admissible, but we had to wait-list them.

Claudia Stuart

She always had her priorities in the right place.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

Jerry Greenfield

If you support the community, they will support you.

Harvey Weinstein

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

Jakob Nielsen

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints,

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.