Evan Bayh Quotes
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.Evan Bayh
Quotes to Explore
-
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
Dan Webster -
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
Oleg Cassini -
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Ralph Ellison -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise -
Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
Hanya Yanagihara
-
I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
Maisie Williams -
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey -
When you speak the truth, people realize that.
Ted Yoho -
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Albert Einstein -
The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.
Elie Wiesel -
Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
-
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles -
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Albert Einstein -
Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.
William Harvey -
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.
Natalia Tena
-
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole -
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
Evan Bayh