Howard Baker Quotes

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Howard Baker

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• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Enough
  • Books

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Stress

• The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Perfect
  • Forever

• Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Logic

• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Community

• When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

  

  Les Baxter

• If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • People

• I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Time
  • Great

• Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • American
  • Feeling

• Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

  

  James Stephens
  • Women

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • School
  • True
  • Strong

• You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • Great
  • Different
  • Career

• It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Air
  • Fire

• The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

  

  Howard Baker
  • Air
  • Republic
  • Decline