Quotes of: Washington-post Keyword

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Andrew Pyper

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

Bill Frist

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

Daniel Boone

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

David Blunkett

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Ethan Allen

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

George Mason

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

Greg Walden

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

Hans Frank

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

John Boyd Orr

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Marco Rubio

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

Orrin Hatch

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

John Abizaid

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

James McGreevey

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Tim Kaine

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

Christopher Gadsden

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Jeff Miller