Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom DeLay

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

We're going to continue to put a lot on them mentally and see how they absorb it and how they react on the field.

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

We started off with losses to two very good football teams, but we told the boys, 'One game at a time,' and that's the way we're approaching it. They're getting better every week. Our kids work really had and they absorb everything we're trying to teach them. I'm probably the happiest 2-2 coach in the state of Michigan.

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts.

We have a sense that there is a lot of thought that needs to go into this process. We need to absorb the work of the Personnel Board.

Tom Odell

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Trinny Woodall

I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.

The only way she can get it in her system is injection because her digestive track is all screwy. She can't absorb it in pill form or food.

Gwyn Morgan

We're a big laboratory in how to absorb so much investment. None of us could have dreamed this would happen this quickly.

I would think they could more easily absorb an additional 35 kids than we could handle a remote facility.

Jobs are growing just fast enough to absorb the new entrants into the labor market but no faster.

Tom Ridge

We think, based on the initiatives that we've announced today, that we can absorb that cost.

Andrew Demetriou

What we would have been keen to do is absorb and study the information pack before making any decision.

Tina Thompson

I thought their contribution was great. They were totally here willing to pick up and absorb everything they could. They were all sponges.

Hispanics are said to be keeping themselves apart, avoiding the use of English, and declining to absorb on the spot the 'core' Protestant and individualist values that underpin the American way of life ... but precedent suggests that young Hispanics will eventually merge their identity in the larger American one, just as previous streams of immigrants have done.

There is a need to get back to work, so we're trying to find a happy balance between letting people absorb the deal and ask all their questions about the deal and then voting on it.

Hurricane Katrina undoubtedly devastated individuals and communities... but on a macro-economic basis it's clear that the US economy has more than enough momentum to absorb the hit and recover quickly.

He was driving home with his wife and the police pulled him over, intercepted him, put him under arrest right away. His reaction so far is one of, I guess to a certain extent shock, and secondly a reaction of sitting trying to absorb all this, wait and see.

He didn't have an agenda. He wasn't really interested in hearing details about the CIA. He wanted to know how I approached various personal crises in my life. Working in the CIA and seeing the worst of life, you tend to have a very dark view of things and that's what he started to absorb from me. That's what you see on screen.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

There is no functional difference between a wire-based phone call and a wireless phone call, so they should be taxed the same way. Cellular providers have chosen to pass the tax to their consumers. They could have chosen to absorb all or some of the tax as a cost of doing business.

We just have to absorb the costs, ... It's not a good thing.

Brian Billick

I am afraid I'm not going to be much help to you right now. I am not prepared to give you a lot of observations until I absorb this and look at the film and decide what happened and how we are going to go forward.

Raf Simons

I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

Mike Holmgren

But we're in as good a position as any team to absorb that. Our attitude has always been the next guy steps in, and off you go.

People who are poor enough to receive LIHEAP benefits, such as elderly widows living below the poverty line, are not in a position to absorb a big increase in home heating costs. If these households don't receive more help paying their utility bills, many of them will face excruciating choices between heating their homes, paying the rent, having enough food to last through the month, and meeting other basic needs. Serious hardship is virtually certain to ensue.

Willie Morris

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Our hope would be that he can (come back). Mark has been a wonderful player and representative for our program. If the end result is that we do lose him, as difficult as that would be to absorb from a basketball standpoint, we'll hurt that much more on a personal level.

My mind still cannot absorb the fact that someone could do something this cruel and heinous to my 17-year-old child.

Like what the Fed has suggested, the U.S. economy was more than strong enough to absorb the blows of Katrina. The labor market is still pretty resilient.

It is impossible to absorb the vastness of the sky. But taking an in awe attitude towards it helps opening our minds.