Delegations Quotes

#1. I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that ... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

Roberto Azevedo

#2. I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

Henry Villard

#3. I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.

Woodrow Wilson

#4. The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,
life passed through the fire of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.

Alan Lightman

#6. Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

Frank Herbert

#7. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Janusz Korczak

#8. With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

Leon Trotsky

#9. I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.

Mila Kunis

#10. Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

Confucius

#11. Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

Mickey Rooney

#12. In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Adam McKay

#13. What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Blaise Pascal

#14. She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee),

Lisa Lutz

#15. Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Maureen Jennings

#16. Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

William Butler Yeats