Mark Shields Quotes

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

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• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Time
  • Too Late
  • Right Time

• Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Choose
  • Content

• Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Need

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Watch

• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Risk
  • Guilt
  • Innocence

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Memories

• There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Latin

• Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Business
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Society
  • Man
  • Progress

• Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Remember
  • You

• Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long
  • Real
  • Community

• Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

  

  Charles Bass
  • People
  • Country
  • Peace

• Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Great
  • Success

• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

  

  Joschka Fischer

• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  

  Mark Shields