George H. W. Bush Quotes

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

George H. W. Bush

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• I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagination

• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • You
  • Something
  • Honesty

• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Sweet
  • Dying
  • Sensation

• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Man

• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • College
  • Realize

• Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Silence
  • Communication

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • School
  • Medicine
  • Grammar

• I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Play
  • Back
  • Magazine

• I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Tennis

• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Want
  • Science

• You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Problem

• I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Passing
  • Net

• Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Good
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement

• My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Education

• I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Up
  • Men

• A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

  

  Phyllis McGinley

• You have to make mistakes to get better. I used to make a mistake, and I kind of get down on myself. And now I make a mistake, and I go, 'Okay, did you learn from this? Did you stick to the facts, and did you stick with the logic? Did you have the analytics?'

  

  John Schnatter
  • Mistake
  • Logic

• Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Great
  • Power

• It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Politics
  • Actions
  • Nations

• Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

  

  George H. W. Bush