The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Hesiod
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
Zosia Mamet
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola
The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
Fred F. Fielding
You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
Colin Greenwood
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!
Alan Vega
We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.
Moshe Sharett
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
Willie Stargell
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
Pope John Paul II
There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
William Hague
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