Hollings Quotes

#1. All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

Maria Montessori

#2. Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Andrew Bird

#3. No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

Sadhu T. L. Vaswani

#4. Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

Ernest Hollings

#5. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.

Karen Hines

#6. To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

John Locke

#7. Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Ernest Hollings

#8. Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy.

Ken Hollings

#9. Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

Anthony McGowan

#10. The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

Ken Hollings

#11. Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Ernest Hollings

#12. Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

John Mellencamp

#13. I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

Fritz Hollings

#14. Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

Ernest Hollings

#15. Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

Ernest Hollings

#16. Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

Giovanni Giocondo

#17. I had forgotten this - the thrill of touching someone new, trying to decipher the meaning of each tiny movement.

Anna Michels

#18. Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

Ernest Hollings

#19. I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

Shannon Miller

#20. To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

David Byrne

#21. I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

Ving Rhames

#22. Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#23. Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.

Anastasia Hollings

#24. We're talking about people, not common denominators.

Haruki Murakami

#25. My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

Ernest Hollings

#26. I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Fritz Hollings

#27. [Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

Ernest Hollings

#28. You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

Ernest Hollings

#29. Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice ... each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.

Buck Rodgers