George H. W. Bush Quotes

Losing is tough.

George H. W. Bush

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• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Always
  • Diary

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Children
  • Trying

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Growth
  • Moral

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Occurs
  • Unreadable

• My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Think
  • Father

• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Good
  • Power
  • English

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Age
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Play

• I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Earth
  • Hand
  • Progress

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Real
  • War
  • Fear

• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Destination

• Women are over 50 percent of the population.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Over
  • Percent

• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Failure
  • Belief

• People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Up
  • Dog

• It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported, and in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Reasons
  • Dishonest
  • Reported

• America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Self
  • Protected

• Losing is tough.

  

  George H. W. Bush