Ronald Reagan Government Shutdown Quotes & Sayings

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. — Mary Wortley Montagu

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff. — Pauly Shore

Hold the day close. You want see it again. — Derrick L. Randall

I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world. — Susan Jacoby

I've never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee. — Donald Trump

Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot. — James Madison

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. — Paul Hawken

You either have a civil society or you don't. — Mohamed ElBaradei

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. — John Piper

Less than five hundred people run this country and those who hand out the most free stuff get elected. — Thomas A. Watson

Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. — Ray Bradbury

Id i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted.. — Marlene Van Niekerk

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. — Zbigniew Brzezinski