President Buttons Quotes & Sayings

I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place ... — Dean Koontz

To keep false hopes is to prolong misery. — Amy Tan

She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them. — Amy Bloom

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier. — Olivier Martinez

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. — Julian Barnes

Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?"
Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy. — Brian Jacques

We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations. — Theodore Zeldin

Victory passes back and forth between men. — Homer

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life. — Archibald Marwizi

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics. — Elia Suleiman

When women and girls rise,
their communities
and their countries rise with them — Michelle Obama

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Some people, like my dad, have invisible scars; others, like Tia, have scars you can see. — Glenda Millard

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand. — Isabel Allende

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) — Alain De Botton