Ludwig Uhland Quotes

#1. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

#2. We become tight and constricted in our minds, which can easily lead to agitation and restlessness.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#3. It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

Kirsten Dunst

#4. There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Some people are lucky. They become who they are supposed to be. This did not happen to me until I met (your mother). One day we started to talk and it never stopped, this conversation.

Don DeLillo

#6. He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

Floyd Abrams

#8. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Bernie Sanders

#9. Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.

James R. Benn

#10. The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Richard G. Scott

#11. I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

Gough Whitlam

#12. Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Alfred De Vigny

#14. Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Keep the bars open-we're coming home.

Jonathan Toews