Susan Powter Quotes
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.Susan Powter
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White -
I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
Maggie Hassan -
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
Samuel Alito -
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg -
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
Viggo Mortensen -
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
Frances Beinecke
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
Gabriel Macht -
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti -
What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
Orison Swett Marden -
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
Lady Gregory -
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
Nancy Gibbs
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian -
I love pain. Love pain.
Cam Gigandet -
Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
Harriet Harman -
I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
Cameron Monaghan -
It's great to be here at the VMA's! I know this show's been a little sketchy in the past. But there isn't gonna be any problems tonight...is there Eminem?! Not here, someone should've told me.
Jack Black -
For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.
Langston Hughes
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If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.
Lee Kuan Yew -
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce -
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.
Vachel Lindsay -
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
Susan Powter