William Howard Taft Quotes
We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
Quotes to Explore
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.
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Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.
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I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
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I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.
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I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
