Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
View quotes by George Washington
Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide (Hymn)
View quotes by Henry Francis Lyte
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
View quotes by Terence
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
View quotes by Josh Billings
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
View quotes by John Milton
I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
View quotes by Quintilian
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
View quotes by Asoka
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
View quotes by Alan Shepherd
The Cabinet was a very important staging post for us [on drilling up support for London 2012 Olympic Games Bid]
View quotes by Sebastian Coe
Apparently they have received an on-line auction bid on eBay for £750 in aid of charity - for that money, I would be happy to deliver a whole lorry load. [on a bag of manure from his winning mount!]
View quotes by Leslie Law
Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting.
View quotes by George Galloway
I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career [after deliberately getting a yellow card to miss a match]
View quotes by David Beckham
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
View quotes by D H Lawrence
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
View quotes by Herman Melville
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
View quotes by Rebecca West
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
View quotes by Bradley Wiggins
Waugh walks to the wicket with the known supremacy of the forbidding headmaster entering a Victorian classroom [on Steve Waugh]
View quotes by David Hopps
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
View quotes by Jimmy Cannon
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
View quotes by Bryan Miller
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