Gillibrand News Quotes & Sayings

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. — Mark Helprin

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can. — PJ Harvey

The terrible threat against life, he said in his book God Is Not Yet Dead, is not death, nor pain, nor any variation on the disasters that we so obsessively try to protect ourselves against with our social systems and personal stratagems. The terrible threat is "that we might die earlier than we really do die, before death has become a natural necessity. The real horror lies in just such a premature death, a death after which we go on living for many years."[6] — Eugene H. Peterson

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world. — James A. Leach

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager — Edward Eager

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron. — Otto Von Bismarck

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context. — Helen Mirren

She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery - boredom. — Patricia Briggs

The priests talk of consecrated ground! Bah! All the earth made by God is holy; but the sea, which knows nothing of kings and priests and tyrants, is the holiest of all. — Joseph Conrad

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. — John Wesley

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism. — Zhou Yongkang

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway. — Bruce Lipton

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine. — George Bernard Shaw

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment. — Marianne Williamson