William Howard Taft Quotes

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

William Howard Taft

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• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Years
  • Year
  • Last

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Business
  • Always
  • Insecurity

• I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Like

• I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Serious
  • Silly

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• You can't give up on your dreams.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Up

• It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

  

  Eric Butterworth
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Faith
  • Community
  • Confidence

• I said, 'If I don't play football for a living, I'm going to get into show business.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Business
  • Football

• A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

  

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Hate
  • Evil

• What's nurtured slowly grows well.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Grows
  • Nurtured

• [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  

  Keith Boykin
  • Responsibility
  • Helping
  • Growing Up

• Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

  

  William Howard Taft