Stopgap Spending Quotes & Sayings

I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is ... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes. — W. J. T. Mitchell

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair ... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. — Chuck Schumer

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected. — Sharon Creech

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks. — Anthony Holden

The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent. — Louisa May Alcott

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war, he said.
-Baron Arald — John Flanagan

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility. — Gary Hamel

None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me ... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box. — Ron Perlman

He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder. — Tacitus

Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk. — Greg Behrendt

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. — Margaret Thatcher

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. — Leonardo Da Vinci

One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere. — Timur Vermes