Lorena Hickok Quotes

#1. The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#2. I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.

Lorena A. Hickok

#4. There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

John C. Calhoun

#5. Old age is the verdict of life.

Amelia Barr

#6. A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Roger Scruton

#7. In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#8. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

William Shakespeare

#9. I love Thanksgiving turkey ... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#10. So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

Sean Hayes