Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

William Manchester

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

William Rehnquist

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

William Graham Sumner

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

William Howard Taft

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

William Irwin Thompson

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

William John Wills

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Zora Neale Hurston

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Zebulon Pike

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Zebulon Pike

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

Zebulon Pike

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Zebulon Pike

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Zebulon Pike

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

Zebulon Pike

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Zebulon Pike

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Zig Ziglar

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

Bill Dedman

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Colin Baker

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

Christine Pelosi