Metzenbaum Quotes & Sayings

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling. — Bert Murray

Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them. — Robert Kiyosaki

What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned. — Howard Metzenbaum

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none. — Howard Metzenbaum

If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me.
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office: A Memoir — Jen Lancaster

If talent is a natural aptitude for creation with an outlook on life peculiar to oneself, then genius is to have an outlook on life, peculiar to oneself, which yet appeals to everybody. Talent is for oneself and a few others, but genius is universal. — D.E. Stevenson

When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership. — Anonymous

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others. — Polybius

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns. — Howard Metzenbaum

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game. — Arsene Wenger

Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America. — Howard Metzenbaum

If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release. — Patricia Riggen

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace — Howard Metzenbaum

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals ... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. — Howard Metzenbaum

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that he was talking in that way. In the book Revelations from Christ, I found out something that Yogananda said. That Jesus had said son of men and son of God, and people often misunderstand so sometimes the translations themselves are wrong for that reason. So when he said son of man he meant his human body and personality. When he said son of God, he meant the infinite Christ consciousness with which he'd obtained oneness. — Goswami Kriyananda

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous. — Gene Weingarten