Commission Gorilla Quotes & Sayings

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline. — Martin Jacques

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble. — Dennis Miller

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed. — Walt Whitman

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice. — Harry S. Truman

Like a white-haired whirlwind, Janet embraced the younger, taller woman with a deep sigh. — Diana Palmer

And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast. — George R R Martin

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two. — Tracy Lawrence

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s. — Toshihiko Fukui

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? — Charles De Lint

But the thing is, most of the time bad things don't happen. Rocks don't fall. Earthquakes don't occur. New vents don't suddenly open up. For all the instability, it's mostly remarkably and amazingly tranquil. — Bill Bryson

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors. — Richard Feynman