Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Alice James

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Aaron Klein

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

Aldo Leopold

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

Ali

Porque mostrei enfado com as diligências necessárias para despachar a bagagem, considerou que sofria de horror aos preparativos das viagens, rotulando-me de efodiofóbico.

Antero de Quental

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

Alice Waters

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

Jack Kornfield

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Berkeley Breathed

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Bernard Berenson

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Barry Commoner

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

John George Nicolay

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Manning Marable

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Marlee Matlin

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

Bob Latta

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Greil Marcus

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole

Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press.

Andy Coulson

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Clay Shirky