Joe Biden Quotes

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Freedom
  • Will
  • Survive

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bittersweet

• In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Character
  • History

• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Olympics

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
  • Creature

• To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Teacher
  • Discipline
  • Self

• If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Drink
  • Please

• The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Blood
  • Hunger
  • Satisfy

• You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

  

  Gary Lutz
  • Wonder
  • Tired
  • Youth

• I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Wonder