Quotes of: Politeness Keyword

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Jim Hightower

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Lou Holtz

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Marat Safin

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

Mike Singletary

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

P. J. O'Rourke

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Pat Riley

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Robert Harris

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

Marc Rich

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Emmeline Pankhurst

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Eddie Redmayne

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Cory Doctorow

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Clint Eastwood

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

Callie Khouri

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

Charles E. Merrill

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

Hans Rosling

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Ike Skelton

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

John Adams

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Juliette Binoche

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Jarvis Cocker