Ari Fleischer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
-
I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
-
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
-
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
-
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
-
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
-
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
-
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
-
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
-
It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
-
My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
-
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
-
I'm not really a model.
-
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
-
An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
-
China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
-
There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
-
In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
-
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
-
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
-
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
-
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
-
When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
