Congressionally Designated Quotes & Sayings

I do not want, John. You know I do not understand what is advertisement and what is not advertisement. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. — George S. Patton

I give myself a good cry if i need it. A little each morning, a few tears and that's all. — Mitch Albom

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on. — Banana Yoshimoto

I will be a positive influence on others and will encourage them to give their best. I will surround myself with positive people who will also encourage me to be my best. — Talayah G. Stovall

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. — Michael Gove

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime. — Angela Davis

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age. — Bertrand Russell

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. — Jon Stewart

I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government. — Rachel Notley

It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age! — S.J. Cameron