Top 100 Hubert Quotes
#1. Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me a while to locate her pupils. She was clearly the brains of the operation, such as she was.
Molly Harper
#3. Hubert Humphrey advised new members, If you feel an urge to stand up and make a speech attacking Vietnamese policy, don't make it.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#4. After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
Barry Goldwater
#5. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
Jerry Stahl
#7. Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
Muriel Humphrey
#8. The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'
(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)
Francis Amery
#9. I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.
Jessye Norman
#10. I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
Lydia Lunch
#11. Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN
J.D. Robb
#12. Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."
Hubert H. Humphrey
#13. One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
Jimmy Carter
#14. The "Sabrina" neckline of Audrey's long sheath dress was designed by her friend Hubert de Givenchy to hide her prominent collarbone.
Luca Dotti
#15. I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
Al Franken
#16. That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#17. If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place.
Sam Fogarino
#18. Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.
Peter Stamm
#19. I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"
Ken Green
#20. When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.
George Lois
#21. Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.
Peggy Noonan
#22. When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
Edmund White
#23. What did the child-woman have to say except that she was happy to be living with Hubert--a big, pompous, grasping, scheming, conniving stud who used her at his will and shaped her affections and her tastes and in general raped her spirit.
M.F.K. Fisher
#24. She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.
Alan Hollinghurst
#25. Here's the bottom line. I don't care if it was Kinko the Klown or a guy in an Uncle Sam suit on stilts or Hubert the Happy Homo. If
Stephen King
#26. Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.
Hunter S. Thompson
#27. Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.
John Updike
#28. The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134
Joe Biden
#29. Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
Elvis Costello
#30. All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#31. Hubert, the great friend of Perceval, has only the steward's steward to bid him farewell," Wido said, clapping young Josson's back with undisguised delight. "The depth of Perceval's true love for Hubert is finally revealed." Josson smiled uneasily. "My lord Hector is busy with
Angela Elwell Hunt
#32. There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.
Muriel Humphrey
#33. Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Susan Estrich
#34. It's always the same
you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same.
O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#35. We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#36. Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#37. Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#38. The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#39. More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#41. One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.
Hubert Yockey
#42. There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#43. The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#44. Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#46. There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#47. When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .
Hubert H. Humphrey
#48. You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#49. If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate
a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#50. There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#51. The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#52. Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#54. The internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment
Hubert L. Dreyfus
#55. I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#56. It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony
Hubert Selby Jr.
#57. The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#58. I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#59. There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#60. Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.
Hubert Van Zeller
#61. Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#62. Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#64. Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#65. Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
Hubert De Givenchy
#66. The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#68. Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.
Hubert Butler
#69. The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.
Hubert Yockey
#70. Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.
Hubert Burda
#71. When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
Hubert Laws
#72. Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#74. The bodies went back in the doors and bars and the heads in the windows. The cops drove away and Freddy and the guys went back into the Greeks and the street was quiet, just the sound of a tug and an occasional car; and even the blood couldn't be seen from a few feet away.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#76. We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#77. In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
Hubert H. Humphrey
#78. We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#79. History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#80. The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.
Hubert Burda
#81. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#82. I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#83. I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.
Hubert De Givenchy
#85. I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do ... or I don't, but its peaceful ... only me ... no worries.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#86. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#87. If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#88. Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#89. Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
Hubert Green
#90. One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#92. This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#93. My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#94. I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#95. The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#96. I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#97. There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#98. This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#99. For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#100. The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights
Hubert H. Humphrey
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