George McGovern Quotes

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

George McGovern

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Children
  • Healthy
  • Now

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Day
  • Opinion

• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Boxing

• Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Acceptance

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Powerful
  • Moment
  • Stand

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Nature
  • Running
  • Water

• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • Age
  • Today

• I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Want
  • Just

• When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Be Happy

• If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• Human contact is a terrible drug. Sometimes, you’ll even take the hit you know is tainted. You can’t stop yourself. The need is too strong.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Human
  • Need
  • Drug

• To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Passions
  • Exempt
  • Tormented

• The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Fingers

• If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

  

  George McGovern