Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.Joseph B. Wirthlin
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
Daniel Cormier -
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull -
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra -
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson -
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. Harvey -
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
Zadie Smith -
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
Wayne Newton -
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
Barbara Kingsolver -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
I did some good things as a rookie.
Earl Campbell
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
Zubin Mehta -
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
Nassau William Senior -
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
Yanis Varoufakis -
'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
Faizon Love -
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.
Jerome Powell
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Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles.
Chuck Schumer -
'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
Kurt Braunohler -
I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
Taylor Caldwell -
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
Joseph B. Wirthlin