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
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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
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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
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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
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky -
I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
Ted Cruz -
I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.
Aaron Watson -
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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