Byron Dorgan Quotes

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Will
  • Against

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Man
  • Dragon
  • Button

• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Growth

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Science
  • Question
  • Technology

• We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Answers
  • Prayers

• Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Support
  • Government
  • Democracy

• We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Education
  • Inspiration
  • Fool

• Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Give
  • Ashamed
  • Deceive

• The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Earth
  • Democracy