Claire McCaskill Quotes

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

Claire McCaskill

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• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• There is more to life than show business.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Business
  • More

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • More
  • Rejoice

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • War

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Children

• Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Taken

• The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • English
  • Cold

• Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good

• We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Universe

• All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Good
  • Period
  • Compassion

• No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Character
  • Grace

• Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Up
  • Water
  • Challenge

• Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'

  

  Peter Horton
  • Life
  • Experience

• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  

  Umar
  • Wisdom
  • Prayer
  • Looks

• No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

  

  Claire McCaskill