Petraeus Scandal Quotes

#1. There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

Mike Leigh

#3. The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Helen Oyeyemi

#4. Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.

Philip Yancey

#5. When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

#6. I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

Julie Gonzalo

#7. I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

David Zucker

#8. It's fun to play happy people.

Amy Ryan

#9. The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.

Mao Zedong

#10. There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

Stephen Colbert

#11. Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Reggie Jackson

#12. There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Javier Bardem

#13. I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

Mark Ruffalo

#14. So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Mitt Romney

#15. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history ... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Ronald Reagan

#16. As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Glenn Greenwald

#17. Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

#18. Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Miranda Lambert