James K. Polk Quotes

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.

James K. Polk

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Powerful

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Act

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Person
  • Reclusive

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Why
  • Yourself
  • Understand

• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Army

• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
  • Book
  • Know
  • Bond

• It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Good
  • Always

• I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Boots

• I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Beach
  • Big
  • Been

• I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Human Nature
  • Seed

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Movie
  • Forever

• If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Country
  • Air
  • Cutting

• Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Problem

• I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows

  

  Donald Mason

• The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.

  

  James K. Polk