Bornstatesmen Quotes & Sayings

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power. — Tom Coburn

The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience — John Timbs

Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. — George Bernard Shaw

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. — Calderon De La Barca

Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls. — Jamie Dimon

It was the last time she'd see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when you had it every day. — Betty Smith

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy. — Hans Frank