Dennis Hastert Quotes

It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Best
  • Lying
  • Liar

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Always
  • Characters

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Song
  • Apology

• As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer

• By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Breakfast
  • Grapefruit

• Look, stranger, on this island now The leaping light for your delight discovers, Stand stable here And silent be, That through the channels of the ear May wander like a river The swaying sound of the sea.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Light
  • Sea

• It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Light
  • Security
  • Testimony