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

• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Always

• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Remember
  • Boy

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

  

  Alastair Campbell

• What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• 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