Getting Quotes
9422 Getting quotes by 5659 unique authors
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There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
— George W. Bush
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Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
— John Doolittle
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Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear…
— Susan Sontag
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better
— David Miliband
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The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political…
— Jonathon Porritt
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This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.
— Helen Oyeyemi
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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
— Leo Rosten
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
— Don King
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I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No…
— Cus D'Amato
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our…
— Dale Carnegie
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
— Vita Sackville-West
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Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get…
— Gwen Ifill
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought…
— Paul McCartney
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It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
— Bob Uecker
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I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I…
— Jon Lovitz
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
— Pete Rose
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My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at…
— Ian Fleming
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I think I'm past the age of getting lost.
— Amanda Seyfried
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I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep…
— Betty Dodson
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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
— Red Skelton
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