Quotes by Politicians - Page 18

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,you look like a world, lying in surrender.My rough peasant's body digs in youand makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion.To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flowsand weariness follows, and the infinite ache.

Pablo Neruda

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

Pablo Neruda

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Henry A. Wallace

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

Imran Khan

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

Theodore Roosevelt

Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Bill Clinton

Q. How soon do you expect Argentina to be returned to democratic government?A. We believe we are already within a democratic system. Some factors are still missing, like the expression of the people's will, but nevertheless we still think we are within a democracy.

Roberto Eduardo Viola

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

Nelson Mandela

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.

B.R. Ambedkar

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone ... Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos.

Benjamin Wood

In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?What primal night does Man touch with his senses?Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:Love is a war of lightning,and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,and a genital fire, transformed by delight,slips through the narrow channels of bloodto precipitate a nocturnal carnation,to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

Pablo Neruda

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

Bishop John de Stratford

Poetry Saved Me

Bev Flynn

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

William Wilberforce

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood.

Theodore Roosevelt

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Mohammad Hatta

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Theodore Roosevelt

The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.

Bill Richardson

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75

Alexander Hamilton

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Leon Trotsky

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Pervez Musharraf

What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.

John Bingham

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh

John F Kennedy

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Henry A. Wallace

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F Kennedy

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

It takes a village to raise a child.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

Anthony Eden

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

William Lowndes

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

Duke of Wellington

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.

Margaret Thatcher

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Nancy Astor

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Pablo Escobar

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

John Adams

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

Joe Biden

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

Andrew Young

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell

Most Americans, and indeed most Europeans, would much rather ignore the fundamental conflict between Islam and their own worldview. This is partly because they generally assume that ‘religion,’ however defined, is a force for good and that any set of religious beliefs should be considered acceptable in a tolerant society. I can sympathize with that. But that does not mean that we should be blind to the potential consequences of accommodating beliefs that are openly hostile to Western laws, traditions, and values. For it is not simply a religion we have to deal with. It is a political religion many of whose fundamental tenets are irreconcilably inimical to our way of life. We need to insist that it is not we in the West who must accommodate ourselves to Muslim sensitivities; it is Muslims who must accommodate themselves to Western liberal ideals.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.

Pablo Neruda

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

Vladimir Lenin

How she felt when he kissed her- like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries.

Samuel Sullivan Cox

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.

Jeffrey Archer

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Jeannette Rankin

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