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MIKE GALLAGHER Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the...
MICHAEL REAGAN The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
MARCO RUBIO The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
ROB BISHOP The No. 1 thing to understand is that no one gets a free pass with Arlen Specter. He takes his role ...
BILL REYNOLDS A person who speaks honestly in the public interest has, most often, to pay unfortunately the heavie...
ANUJ SOMANY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a...
CHUCK TODD There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
GLORIA STEINEM Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a mo...
OLYMPIA SNOWE Getting the 60 signatures is ongoing. Max and (Sen. Arlen) Specter (R-Pa.) are continuing to push it...
BARRETT KAISER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
JERRY CANTRELL I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some...
JULIANNE MOORE No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
KEVIN SPACEY The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in ...
OSCAR WILDE Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
JAMES SCHUYLER The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among...
JIM WEBB All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
AUGUST WILSON What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
BILL NELSON Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a...
JAIME HERNANDEZ He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the o...
ETGAR KERET Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public...
JAKE BUGG It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if...
CAROLYN WELLS Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe....
MANDY HALE Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
OSCAR WILDE It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme pol...
STOCKWELL DAY We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have suc...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Osca...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when ...
BJORK Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the ...
JURGEN HABERMAS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford&...
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, w...
BJORK As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
The funny thing is that okayness...
MARKUS ZUSAK Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of t...
POLA NEGRI I'm trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a yo...
JON OSSOFF Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist h...
BRIAN MULRONEY Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have n...
TOM RATH The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today
JEAN COCTEAU Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office befo...
HERMAN CAIN I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just wa...
JOE GIBBS For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's ...
BEN HOPKINS Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in grou...
DAVID CARSON I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values w...
ALANIS MORISSETTE It's kind of scary. If someone who has an eighth-grade education can walk in and be a counselor, how...
DAVID KAPLAN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a ...
MC HAMMER The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington ...
BILLY EICHNER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab...
JOHN GREEN I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say th...
DWYANE WADE You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
TONY CLEAVER Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tel...
RONALD REAGAN It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It...
FAY VINCENT The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the rea...
LIBBA BRAY On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact...
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ARLEN SPECTER sort of pawns in the whole operation.
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ARLEN SPECTER It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,
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ARLEN SPECTER I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
ARLEN SPECTER But there's no doctrinal basis erosion in Roe, is there?
ARLEN SPECTER I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said,
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ARLEN SPECTER I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your...
ARLEN SPECTER There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for politic...
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ARLEN SPECTER Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
ARLEN SPECTER [Four Democratic votes for Roberts would be] a pleasant surprise, ... they can be tougher on the nex...
ARLEN SPECTER The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
ARLEN SPECTER Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (...
ARLEN SPECTER We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be re...
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ARLEN SPECTER It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,
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ARLEN SPECTER As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution shoul...
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ARLEN SPECTER I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.
ARLEN SPECTER It's inexcusable ... clearly and categorically wrong.
ARLEN SPECTER your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.
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ARLEN SPECTER this was my case. I had organized, nurtured and developed it. I was the lead plaintiff and had parti...
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ARLEN SPECTER That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities.
ARLEN SPECTER Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
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ARLEN SPECTER If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured ma...
ARLEN SPECTER demonstrated that he would take a fair, non-ideological approach.
ARLEN SPECTER Do you approve of torture?
ARLEN SPECTER We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used t...
ARLEN SPECTER [The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its] method of reasoning, ... Is t...
ARLEN SPECTER My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
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ARLEN SPECTER The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty importan...
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ARLEN KANTARIAN Stormy Weather.
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