John Thune Quotes

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Want
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Dream
  • Years
  • Been

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Start
  • Sound
  • Looking

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Lady
  • Fat

• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Business
  • Me
  • Performing

• I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Soul
  • Door
  • Mystery

• As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • President
  • Young
  • Potential

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Sight
  • Far
  • Astronomy

• The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • True
  • Confidence

• Well, they’re going to elect that Stupid Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Money
  • Stupid

• Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.'

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• Simplify, simplify.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • God
  • True
  • Knowledge

• The life of doctrine is in application.

  

  Joseph Hall
  • Life
  • Doctrine
  • Application

• The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.

  

  David Gross
  • History
  • Universe
  • Period

• There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Question
  • Water

• I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

  

  John Thune