Ted Olson Quotes

#1. The records available for the phone calls from American 77 do not allow for a determination of which of four 'connected calls to unknown numbers' represent the two between Barbara and Ted Olson.

National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States

#2. I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

Ted Olson

#3. Sometimes she felt as though she was disappearing, that she was being whittled down to just this terrible feeling, like a sudden aching that appeared all over, not in her body but in her soul.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

Ted Olson

#6. I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

Bette Midler

#7. Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

Ted Olson

#8. No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

Ted Olson

#9. You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#10. Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

#11. I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

Adam Driver

#12. My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

Ted Olson

#13. The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Freya Stark

#14. The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Ted Olson

#15. God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.

Rajneesh

#16. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#17. The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Ted Olson

#18. When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.

Mitch Michaelson

#19. Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?

Ted Olson

#20. Anytime his gaze fell upon her, it was always the same. That awful chest pain, so relentless it was like his heart exploded.

Allie Burke

#21. He won't last long, akri. Thanatos is barbecue. And I like my barbecue. Just tell me how you want him, akri, normal recipe or extra crispy. I'm partial to extra crispy myself. They crunch louder when deep-fried. Reminds me, I need some bread crumbs. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,

Ted Olson

#23. She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

Ted Olson

#24. Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#25. To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.

Werner Erhard

#26. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#27. The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

Ted Olson

#28. I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

Ted Olson

#29. You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Ted Olson