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  • I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place. -- Stephen Ambrose
  • In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies! -- Wally Amos
  • We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. -- Pico Iyer
  • Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac. -- Curtis Jackson
  • For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us. -- William Tyndale
  • I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. -- Goldie Hawn
  • Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. -- Michael Mandelbaum
  • If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. -- Eric Alterman
  • The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. -- John Mellencamp
  • As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor. -- Tim Holden
  • In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution. -- Kage Baker
  • For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. -- James T. Walsh
  • I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me. -- Dennis Bergkamp
  • In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. -- Harry Houdini
  • If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. -- Theodor Herzl
  • President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights. -- John Roberts
  • Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again. -- Peter Ackroyd
  • Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters. -- David Simon
  • Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. -- David Morrell
  • Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild. -- William Blake
  • You're an interesting woman." "Your interest has been duly noted. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. -- Martin Heidegger
  • The baboon is driving," I noted. "Should I be worried? -- Rick Riordan
  • Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. -- E. W. Howe
  • Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. -- J. William Fulbright
  • None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. -- Francis Bacon
  • You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career. -- Joe Arpaio
  • Among adults "? and among orphans "? Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. -- John Irving
  • We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use. -- Jacob Zuma
  • Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • I simply noted that one of the groups, especially exporters, would prefer to have a weaker rouble. -- Vladimir Putin
  • Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose. -- Umberto Eco
  • By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? -- Cassandra Clare
  • On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth. -- David McCullough
  • If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted. -- Russ Feingold
  • I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best. -- Lionel Abel
  • It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans. -- Ann Brashares
  • It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion. -- Noah Feldman
  • As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. -- Bernard Bailyn
  • One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. -- David Niven
  • A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. -- Roger Zelazny
  • Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son. -- Camille Paglia
  • ...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship... -- John Geddes
  • Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac. -- Curtis Jackson
  • Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted. -- Megan Whalen Turner
  • These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post. -- Sun Tzu
  • He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. -- Dean Koontz
  • The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted. -- Arnold Bennett
  • Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security. -- William Safire
  • You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added -- Groucho Marx
  • As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. -- Mark Galli
  • When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. -- Toni Morrison
  • The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary. -- Henry Miller
  • [John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together." -- Gordon S. Wood
  • Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. -- Aaron Klein
  • Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories. -- Hugh Everett III
  • The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people. -- Alice Sebold
  • To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor. -- Deanna Raybourn
  • If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities. -- Hugh Coolican
  • Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will." "I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway. -- Richelle Mead
  • I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted. -- Horace Walpole
  • From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue. -- Dannah Gresh
  • Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth. -- Nora Roberts
  • Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order... -- Hans Reichenbach
  • History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil. -- Bob Dole
  • The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. -- Benedetto Croce
  • We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking. -- John Burroughs
  • As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.' -- Orrin Hatch
  • I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world. -- Felix Dennis
  • How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry. -- David Markson
  • The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen. -- Robert Genn
  • Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work. -- Stanley Kunitz
  • As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election. -- Robert H. Frank
  • It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise... and actions are the ONLY things that speak. -- Steve Maraboli
  • At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being. -- Stephen Fry
  • An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. -- E. M. Forster
  • Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere? -- Eoin Colfer
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  • It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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