Popularist Government Quotes & Sayings

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. — Albert Theodore Powers

That was ... that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close. — Marat Safin

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. — Arthur Golden

The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do. — Rob Lowe

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary. — John C. Calhoun

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there. — Jay Roach

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays. — Mike Leigh

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. — E.B. White

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — Plautus

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man. — Ronald Reagan

True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything ... — J. E. Buckrose

No one should have to walk down a church aisle with a bouquet of flowers unless she was the bride, already had been the bride, or was too young to be the bride. Otherwise, it was just cruel. — Julia Quinn

A word about meat caramelizing: You want it brown, not a light tan. — Daniel Boulud

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism ... — Thomas Jefferson