Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Sandy

We have had a couple kids step up in the absence. Leon's been out for nine to 10 days, but as we get into district play it should add to our depth.

Josh Bernoff

The extension won't save the company, but the absence of it would have been really bad.

Brendan Barber

The reality is that Britain has one of the lowest rates of sick absence in Europe and sickness rates have been coming down for the last 10 years,

Robert Massey

The real driver for this discussion is the presence or absence of life on Mars. Like most astronomers, I'd love to believe it's there (or life was at one time) but we probably won't know for sure until humans explore the planet.

Tom Ojienda

We shall study and obtain credible evidence against those mentioned in these scandals and in the absence of the attorney general moving on time to charge them, we shall bring private prosecution.

Theodor Mommsen

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

Gareth Thomas

We know from experience that the absence of sexual and reproductive health services results in an increase in unintended pregnancies and, inevitably, a greater number of unsafe abortions.

Carl Sagan

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Karen Abbott

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

David Victor

We have no credible emission policy at the federal level.

Eric Holdeman

We've seen what happens when the federal government hasn't done much of anything in advance. If you want to be prepared for the maximum credible catastrophic event, you should be thinking seven days, not just the minimum of three days.

Charles Eastman

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

S. Hughes

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

John Newman

We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people.

Charlie King

She has not yet been able to establish that she can mount any kind of credible candidacy for any public office.

John Harris

She retires sound and could have had a very credible season this year at the track, but she really didn't have much left to prove.

Mark Schneider

Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.

John Howard

If anything, it's helped in implementing this solution. We've had no incidents of that kind. I think that the huge majority of users come in here for credible reasons wanting to learn or do some type of research. This is targeted solely on people who want to come and do something other than research.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Liu Jianchao

when Saddam was in power, the Iraqi people had suffered from several wars and sanctions for many years.

James Jeffrey

There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.

Bayan Jabor

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charlie Gonzalez

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Pete Eliades

We have no problem if they tax everybody. But they don't. ... We just want the public to know the truth.

Lily Tomlin

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.

Christine Callies

The problem with the tech sector is not so much a fundamental problem as a valuations problem.

Miriam Santiago

The problem with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here.

Joe Duffy

The problem with security standards is that there are so many of them.

Hitesh Sheth

The problem with psychiatry is, it doesn't know what the problem is.

Kent Conrad

The reality here is we've got a problem here and it's a big problem.

Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jacob Tucker

We thought they would get tired sooner or later. We're conditioned real well.

Darrent Williams

We want you to throw at us. Sooner or later, you are going to make a mistake.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Beth Moore

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Al Gore

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

David Platt

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

David Platt

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Ted Stevens

This is no way to treat a state, ... We're a sovereign state.

R. C. Sproul

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

R. C. Sproul

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.