Olympia Snowe Quotes

I think that public discussions thus far, without a specific proposal, has created and enhanced a lot of confusion and fear among seniors, wondering if their benefits now are going to be cut.

Olympia Snowe

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • Alone

• Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Emotional

• I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Team
  • Artist
  • Better

• Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Black
  • Explore

• An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Fear

• I think that public discussions thus far, without a specific proposal, has created and enhanced a lot of confusion and fear among seniors, wondering if their benefits now are going to be cut.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Fear
  • Public
  • Confusion