George H. W. Bush Quotes

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

George H. W. Bush

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Amazing
  • Special
  • Behind

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Man

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• Our vision is for games to offer a wide variety of different experiences and attract all kinds of gamers and nongamers.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Different
  • Vision

• I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Hair

• Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • History
  • Black
  • Color

• In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Up
  • High
  • Risk

• I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Black
  • Fire
  • Angry