Alison Lundergan Grimes Quotes

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

Alison Lundergan Grimes

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• I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Way
  • Regret
  • Act

• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Faith
  • Stop
  • Moving

• The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

  

  Odell Shepard
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May
  • Girl
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• America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Poverty

• These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Life
  • Future
  • Guy

• Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Saints
  • Fearful
  • Penances

• You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Education

• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Age

• It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.

  

  David Elkind
  • Children
  • Mean
  • Week

• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Time
  • Real
  • Night

• In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Lasts

• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Food
  • Rain
  • Clouds

• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  

  George Clooney
  • Looks
  • Humans
  • Stills

• Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Jobs

• And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hope
  • Knows
  • Glory

• We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’

  

  Francis Chan
  • Car
  • Habit
  • Sin

• God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Love
  • Suffering

• When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

  

  Alison Lundergan Grimes
  • Jobs
  • Protecting
  • Coal