Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!Eleanor Holmes Norton
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales -
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet -
In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
Jack Keane -
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
Adam Baldwin -
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln -
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Barry Eichengreen
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming -
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie -
I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.
Rachel Corrie -
We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle -
My main hobby is working. I love what I do.
Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')
Paramahansa Yogananda -
It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
Bea Arthur -
Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.
Anton Chekhov -
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
David Bergen
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
Madeleine L'Engle -
The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
Confucius -
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
David LaChapelle -
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
David Cassidy -
Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
Eleanor Holmes Norton