William Howard Taft Quotes

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• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Job
  • Rest
  • Moon

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Great
  • Book
  • Single

• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • School
  • Job
  • Parents

• Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Christian
  • Born
  • Well

• Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • Law
  • Democracy

• What I love best in life is new starts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Best
  • New

• My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Body

• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Race

• There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Rules

• Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Understanding
  • Gift
  • Offer

• God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Mind
  • Done

• Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Job
  • Seriously

• In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Want
  • Government
  • Assistants

• I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Horse

• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Answer
  • Immortality
  • Receive

• If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Actor
  • Script
  • I Like

• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

  

  William Howard Taft
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