Top 66 Dobbs Quotes
#1. I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy" Brenda to Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
#2. It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.
Sarah Lacy
#3. Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.
Kevin Spacey
#4. Thank you, Joe Dobbs ga Badass ga Male Model ga Chiseled Pecs.
Sara King
#5. With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
Curt Weldon
#6. It seemed scarcely a moment since she had made it back home,
Michael Dobbs
#7. Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more.
Michael Dobbs
#8. I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
#9. I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.
Lou Dobbs
#10. I knew what was waiting out there for me," he said. "Terrifying things. There were German patrol boats, mine fields, and nearly a thousand miles of stormy seas." "So why did you do it?" "Because also waiting for me was the most terrifying and wonderful thing of all. The future.
Michael Dobbs
#11. Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.
Lou Dobbs
#12. We're all confounded by a lack of time.
Lou Dobbs
#13. His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.
Michael Dobbs
#14. This will not be easy,' he said. 'Neither is failure.
Michael Dobbs
#15. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.
Michael Dobbs
#16. All members of a Cabinet are referred to as Right. Honorable Gentlemen. There are only three things wrong with such a title ...
Michael Dobbs
#17. Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?
Michael Dobbs
#18. Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
Tara Dobbs
#19. The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.
Lou Dobbs
#20. Loyalty is like the Doctrine of Celibacy - easy to proclaim but damned difficult to live by.
Michael Dobbs
#21. You might think that, I could not possibly comment
Michael Dobbs
#22. Communism was not defeated by any one individual or even a combination of individuals. In the last resort communism defeated itself.
Michael Dobbs
#23. I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.
Lou Dobbs
#24. The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties.
Michael Dobbs
#25. There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.
Michael Dobbs
#26. The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.
Michael Dobbs
#27. with every doubling of a city's population, each inhabitant becomes, on average, 15 percent wealthier, more productive, and more innovative.
Richard Dobbs
#29. Silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits.
Michael Dobbs
#30. intent was honest, he really did want to help and he did have a lot of knowledge about antiques since he'd been running his family pawn shop for almost a decade. She knew they could trust him and she filed the information away for later in case they got desperate for money.
Leighann Dobbs
#31. Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.
Michael Dobbs
#32. What value can we place on our parliamentary institutions if constituencies return only tame, docile and subservient members who try to stamp on every form of independent judgement?
Michael Dobbs
#33. Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.
Lou Dobbs
#34. The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.
Lou Dobbs
#35. JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history.
Michael Dobbs
#36. he normally had his pastry shipped from Boston's north end
Leighann Dobbs
#37. For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning.
Michael Dobbs
#38. Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient,
Michael Dobbs
#39. I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.
Lou Dobbs
#40. Cruelty of any kind is unforgivable . That's why there is no point at all in being creek in half-measure.
Michael Dobbs
#41. Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.
Michael Dobbs
#42. Hansen's disease" - that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy - "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy
Lou Dobbs
#43. It is the members of this business elite ... that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties ...
Lou Dobbs
#44. Loyalty is like instant coffee: it's cheap and ultimately unsatisfying.
Michael Dobbs
#45. Why waste a life in search of an epitaph? 'Fondly Remembered'. Who other than a halfwit has that chiselled above his head?
Michael Dobbs
#46. Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.
Michael Dobbs
#47. If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn Dobbs
#48. She went up on tiptoes, just so she could look down on him.
Michael Dobbs
#50. Loyalty may be good news, but it is rarely good advice.
Michael Dobbs
#51. In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.
Michael Dobbs
#52. Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have.
Michael Dobbs
#53. You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.
Michael Dobbs
#54. If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.
Lou Dobbs
#55. The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.
Michael Dobbs
#56. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor.
Michael Dobbs
#57. (a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII):
"...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side.
Jacqueline Winspear
#58. And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.
Michael Dobbs
#59. A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams
Michael Dobbs
#60. God bless the Florida Supreme Court.
Lou Dobbs
#61. Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.
Michael Dobbs
#62. Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.
Michael Dobbs
#63. He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.
Michael Dobbs
#64. The time for change is when it can no longer be resisted. In other words, when you have a man by the balls and are pulling hard, he will invariably follow in your footsteps.
Michael Dobbs
#65. Lexy had images of running through the neighborhood in the dark, her ripped pajamas flapping behind her and frantically chasing her dog while neighbors peered through their windows at the crazy lady.
Leighann Dobbs
#66. We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.
Lou Dobbs
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