Mike Mansfield Quotes

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Feel
  • Kid
  • Relaxed

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Years
  • Strange
  • Old

• Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Friends
  • Liberty
  • Had

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Feel

• Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Day

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Career

• I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Phony
  • Descriptions
  • Lengthy

• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Children
  • Job
  • Remember

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Why

• Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick flu before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Game
  • Sick
  • Golf

• I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

  

  Mike Mansfield
  • War
  • Down
  • Slow