Jacquesson 742 Quotes & Sayings

Another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. — Barack Obama

On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
Toiling and climbing to the very close,
The weary Body, longing for repose,
On the gained level of the day's ascent,
Halts for the night and pitches there its tent. — Abraham Coles

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq. — Saddam Hussein

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away. — Stuart Appleby

Timing is everything when you're about to tell someone you dreamed him into your heart. — Tarryn Fisher

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature. — Jay Parini

Political suicide can end a career. — John Major

If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart. — Derek Landy

The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. — P. J. O'Rourke