William Howard Taft Quotes
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.William Howard Taft
Quotes to Explore
-
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman -
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
Balaji Srinivasan -
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
Salman Rushdie
-
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
Take good care of our fragile planet.
Kalpana Chawla -
I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush -
I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
Taylor Schilling -
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Sally Schneider -
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
Laura Schlessinger
-
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor -
Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
Madeline Kahn -
I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
Barbara Mandrell
-
Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
Lisa See -
Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula -
We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.
Frank Carlucci -
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Ramakrishna -
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
William Howard Taft