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

• 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

• I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Surprised
  • Prize
  • Novelist

• Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Time

• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Spring

• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Time
  • War
  • Death

• We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Perfect

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

  

  Mike Mansfield
  • War
  • Down
  • Slow