Top 20 Quotes About Parliament And Congress
#1. It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,
so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.
James Russell Lowell
#2. More than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
Robert A. Heinlein
#3. When a man walks alone,
He is heard by thy own ears...
But when a man walks among others,
He is heard throughout eternity.
Mark Edward Thomas Piotrowski
#4. The road snakes south, then north, ultimately taking us east, and I wonder if life is like that. Go one way, then another, to end up someplace else.
Ellen Hopkins
#6. Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.
Federico Chini
#7. Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#8. Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Jared Polis
#9. You don't see me in the clubs unless I'm throwing a party for Fashion Week.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#10. Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
James Otis
#11. In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
Bella Abzug
#12. I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
Larry Norman
#13. I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..
Edward R. Murrow
#14. In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
Lord Acton
#15. [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?
Trent Lott
#16. The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.
Charles Colson
#17. A prickle of porcupines, a cackle of hyenas, a pounce of cats, a slither of snakes. But it's a nest of vipers, a quiver of cobras, and a rhumba of rattlesnakes. They also have a parliament of owls and a congress of baboons, which I find insulting to baboons myself.
Abigail Roux
#18. It feels like Shiva destroyed my universes of possibility, like He's dancing on the ashes of my snatched away dreams.
Padma Venkatraman
#19. I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#20. Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is.
Steve Merrick
