Edmund Muskie Quotes

#1. I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

Nastia Liukin

#2. We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

Brene Brown

#3. We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Harry S. Truman

#4. This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.

Gary L. Blackwood

#5. Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Edmund S. Muskie

#6. In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Edmund Muskie

#7. Every word is a preconceived judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all guilty, and...if only we were all convinced of it!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

Edmund Muskie

#10. The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.

Johnny Giles

#11. Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

Michael A. Ledeen

#12. You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

Edmund S. Muskie

#13. Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Francois Rabelais

#14. Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.

Amor Towles

#16. For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

Matt Damon

#17. It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

Edmund S. Muskie

#18. In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Edmund S. Muskie

#19. My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

Jimmy Cliff

#20. The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

David Foster Wallace

#21. Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Rick Riordan