Bette Lord Quotes
Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
Bette Lord
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.
Donald Trump
I cannot believe the president searched the country and was unable to find a qualified female nominee, ... More likely, he was unable to find a qualified female nominee who satisfied that far right wing of the Republican Party.
Barbara Mikulski
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
Barack Obama
Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.
Barack Obama
I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.
Barack Obama
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.
Marge Piercy
The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.
Mark Levin
I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.
Clark Gable
The United States, for its part, downgraded from low-level to complete withdrawal, much to the regret of other delegates such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People’s Republic of Himself.
Mark Steyn
May not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close.
Dennis Hastert
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
Willard Wigan
In a whole world of strangers, she´s the only one alive who shares the first half of my life, of my memories, of myself. There are times I want to strangle her, a lot more time I want to scream at her to grow up, but I love her anyway.
Elizabeth Lowell
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
Bette Lord
