Suddy Excavating Quotes & Sayings

My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact. — Nigel S. Wright

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it. — Charles Dickens

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future. — Marisa Berenson

Journalists usually treat anything as true if someone in a position of ostensible authority is willing to say it, even anonymously (and if no one is going to sue over it). The accuracy of anyone's statement, particularly if that person is a public official, is often deemed irrelevant. If no evidence is available for an argument a journalist wishes to include in a story, then up pop weasel words such as "it seems" or "some claim" to enable inclusion of the argument, no matter how shaky its foundation in reality. What's more, too many journalists believe that their job description does not require them to adjudicate between competing claims of truth. Sure, there are "two sides" - and only two sides - to every story, according to the rules of objectivity. But if both sides wish to deploy lies and other forms of deliberate deception for their own purposes, well, that's somebody else's problem. — Eric Alterman

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under. — James Woods

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality. — John L. Casti

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different. — Johnny Crawford

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything. — Themis Tolis

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature. — Cristina Henriquez

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires. — Peter Esterhazy

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life. — Mehmet Oz

I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry. — Gena Showalter

Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices. — Leah Raeder

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. — Franz Grillparzer