Edward Kennedy Quotes

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Edward Kennedy

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• I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Me
  • Curious

• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Evangelical

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • God
  • Blessings

• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Music
  • Small

• My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Life
  • Science
  • My Life

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Words

• Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Remember
  • History
  • Health

• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Change
  • Party

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Divine
  • Works
  • Slaves

• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Music
  • Color
  • Harmony

• I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

  

  Usher
  • Believe
  • You
  • End

• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Time
  • War
  • Military

• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Hope
  • Solitude
  • Bitter

• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Child
  • Deserve

• I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.

  

  Bernice King
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Support

• With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.

  

  August Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

  

  Edward Kennedy