Edward Rutledge Quotes
Oh for a fleet that could look the proudest power in Europe in the face, on this our rightful Western Ocean! But alas, it must be left to posterity — at the age of 50 I can't expect to view it unless from above.
Edward Rutledge
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Dan Lipinski
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Ian Frazier
I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
Maggie Williams
I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
Olivia Thirlby
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Earle Brown
I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
Vicki Lawrence
Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
Ursula K. Le Guin
'The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.'
P. G. Wodehouse
Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Frankly, I think I might scare the parties, and that would be a good thing.
Angus King
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
William Shakespeare
