Oval Quotes

• Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

  Georges Braque

  Thanks, Horizontal, Vertical

  "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co, p. 39, 1964.

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Welfare, Dependent

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

  Theodore Parker

  Long, Justice, Moral

  Theodore Parker (1895). “Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers”

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Destiny, Problem

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

  David Petraeus

  Military, Office, Advice

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  Barack Obama

  Office, Waiting, Debt

  "Obama fires up House Democrats to help push through stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

  Allison Janney

  Men, Dancing, Office

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• Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Firsts, Healthcare

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• I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

  Dick Cheney

  Change, Work, Two

  "Transcript Part III: Cheney, Edwards discuss qualities of a VP". Debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Philistines, Rounds

  1967 Interview in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring.

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• I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty.

  George W. Bush

  Men, People, Office

  President Bush's Press Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. November 4, 2004.

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• God is going to take over the White House... He is going to take over the Oval Office... because it belongs to Him and He is going to bring all things summed up into the fullness of Christ. He is going to take that Supreme Court. He is going to turn that inside out. He is going to pray that strong man off that thing and He is going to bring the synergistic anointing of intercession and the prophetic anointing to break, to judge, to decree.... I will march into that place and declare a decree the word of the Lord boldly... He is joining the kingly and the priestly anointing.

  Dutch Sheets

  Strong, Men, White

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• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Years, Office

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• The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

  George H. W. Bush

  Men, Office, Black

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• I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

  George W. Bush

  War, Office, Decision

  "'I'm a War President,' Bush Says". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, articles.latimes.com. February 9, 2004.

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• I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

  Rachael Ray

  Long, Pot, Spaghetti

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Form

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Space

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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Eye, Ideas

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