Connie Mack Quotes

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

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• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.

  

  Kaskade
  • Artist
  • Describe
  • Songwriter

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Understand

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Dream

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Strive
  • Conquer

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Light
  • End
  • Looking

• There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Great
  • Family
  • Fun

• I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Study

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Even at the risk of losing all the golden eggs of the future, I had to find out what made the goose lay those eggs

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Future
  • Risk

• Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Money
  • Control

• You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • May
  • Missing

• For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Money
  • Fall
  • Phoenix

• The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Live
  • Real
  • Home

• If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • Way
  • Parent

• This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

  

  Joe Frazier

• You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

  

  Connie Mack