Sought To Oust Quotes

#1. In the classic outline of a failed coup, the plotters had sought to oust the president without first securing the support of the military and the civil service, and without seizing the headquarters of the state broadcaster.

Tim Shipman

#2. Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

Alvin Toffler

#3. My campaign is about getting pets to be more active, and exercise with your animal is a great way for people to exercise. When you're out with your pet, it becomes fun. You don't think of it as a chore. For me, taking my dog out for a walk is very relaxing.

Misty May-Treanor

#4. Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

Sharon Stone

#5. No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say.

Val McDermid

#6. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips

Cynthia Ozick

#7. Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you.

Rebecca McNutt

#8. Success is living your essence." ~ Sharif Khan

Sharif Khan

#9. CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

Hilary Mantel

#10. Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"
A smile soared across my face.
"As high as I possibly can.

Kenneth Oppel

#11. Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

Thomas De Quincey

#12. I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.

Whitfield Diffie

#13. Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

#14. There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

#15. It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

Alexandre Dumas