Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Georg Simmel

The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Craig Quintana

There is no other place to put that storm water. And in absence of another place to put it, you're looking at road way and residential flooding during a rain event.

Mark Nicholls

We are all part of a team, so my absence is not a problem.

William Blum

We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.

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.

Eric Rudder

Ultimately this is about enabling mainstream adoption of user experience within both business and end-user applications, resulting in richer differentiated experiences on the web and the smart client that promote business opportunity and productivity

Dominique Moceanu

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

Jimmy Lee

We are pleased to provide leadership in this major server technology transition, extending our track record of excellent support for the server DIMM market. As industry adoption of fully buffered dual in-line memory modules increases, our customers and partners can continue to rely on IDT as a first call to satisfy the timing requirements of FB-DIMM technology.

Henry Samueli

In the 2015 time frame, you'll probably see more mainstream adoption of set-top box technology using UltraHD. We'll start shipping it in 2014, but the volume will take off in probably 2015.

Chelsea Handler

I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.

Graham Spanier

Universities have made impressive progress in combating piracy of music and movies through educational efforts, technical controls, and the adoption of legitimate online services. At the same time, we in higher education must expand the reach of our efforts and must continue to be vigilant.

Scott Herron

With the release into the commercial market with Ingram, we've had a massive adoption rate of our technology.

Tim Tebow

When I have a family someday, I'll probably adopt. Adoption has always been something close to my heart. There are so many kids out there who really need a family.

Chris Crutcher

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Frank Poirot

We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Dr. Crofford

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

Liz Boyd

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

Mark Connor

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Marcel Proust

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

David Bryant

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Hans Kunnen

With the market buoyant, there is always the incentive to seek capital.

Miles Johnson

We feel that the incentive is at the right place right now to keep sales brisk.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Phil Garner

I don't think we need any more incentive than we already have. We're an organization that has never been to the World Series. That's plenty of incentive right there.

Joe Raymond

There is a perverse incentive to overspend some, in order to get more.

Mickey Maurer

Our mission is to offer as little incentives as possible and still get the jobs. We're very pleased with it and they're pleased as well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

Doug Harris

We weren't in our regular routine, and I could tell in our practices we were somewhere else.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Bob Iger

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Dana Milbank

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Kathleen Ham

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Peter Thiel

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Harvey Weinstein

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Brian Lovejoy

It's going to be a soaking rain. It's going to be a widespread rain.

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Russ Rader

I don't think their use is widespread enough yet to study.