Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have found no single programs that are the answer. It has to do with people in the school and the community who are absolutely focused on these individual children.

Jane Gardam

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

Marc Racicot

We would not do this if it were not absolutely essential, ... This is devastating.

Alan Mulally

We would be absolutely walking away from our commitments to our customers, ... They bought the airplanes and are counting on receiving the airplanes. There is no way we could recover.

We would be absolutely amazed, although pleasantly surprised, if the Federal Trade Commission said we did not have to rationalize some assets,

We had absolutely nothing to lose, so we went into it with a mindset of 'Why not?' and things just seemed to come out right in the end.

We had absolutely no life, no energy. They just came out and didn't play. That really surprised me, really disappointed me.

Steve Alford

We had absolutely no issues academically at all. Our five seniors are all on pace to graduate.

Jacques Rogge

We are speaking of a sporting session in 2009 and it will not have an impact. If Copenhagen wins it will be from membership that is absolutely universal from 70 countries.

Weather radios are absolutely critical for people to be alerted of tornado warnings, severe weather warnings especially in the over night hours.

We believe it's absolutely unfair and unjust that they just arbitrarily say they won't pay. There could be no question in anyone's view that he is suffering from a disability. We are absolutely confident that we will prevail.

Dick Cheney

We believe it is absolutely essential, ... It would be irresponsible for us not to move forward.

To think that here we are, 31 years later, and they (now) know absolutely no more about massive hemorrhaging than they did then,

To the customer, it means absolutely nothing. These are teething pains. ... This had nothing to do with the safety and security systems in our subways.

My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. We had to sort the good ones from the bad ones. Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this!

Terry Pratchett

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Dale Archer

'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

Jose Rizal

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

Hans Kung

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

Ishmael Beah

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Christopher Hitchens

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Susan Brown

Without the micro-loan, there is absolutely no way I would be here.

Jason Kendall

With Bobby, we lost someone who is absolutely crucial. The kid knows how to play. We're certainly a better team with him in there.

With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

With any type of program like that, delays are absolutely possible, and when they happen, they're not unexpected.

With an artist like Mike Leigh, you give him what he wants. I'm thrilled. ... I think it's an absolutely brilliant family drama.

The program is making every effort to ensure that the crew on orbit has all that they need to continually man the space station. Right now, there's absolutely no concern for any of their consumables on board.

There are roofs missing. There are homes that have been flattened. There are mobile homes that have just absolutely been wrapped around trees,

Mike McCurry

The president is absolutely rock-solid confident that he's got the right approach." ()

The question you all will have is, 'Isn't this a step toward the deployment of ground troops in Kosovo?' ... The answer is, absolutely not. This is pure and simple an expansion of the air operation.

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.

Chris Hadfield

There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.