Presidenting Quotes & Sayings

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. — John Drinkwater

Whenever you're struck by misfortune, either through an illness or an accident, the people around you suddenly change. There are those who scurry off the sinking ship, like rats, those who wait to see how the situation develops before making their next move, and finally those who remain loyal to their feelings and whose behavior doesn't change. Those friends are both rare and precious. He — Tahar Ben Jelloun

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. — Will Rogers

Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged. — Hanya Yanagihara

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

Don't worry about failure or rejection; no one knows what they're doing anyway. — Marty Rubin

And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging. — Carnegie Mellon

God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times. — Wesley L. Duewel

Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart — Hilda Doolittle

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too. — George W. Bush