Unions Quotes - Page 33

• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Empires, Gains

  7 Copy quote

• The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.

  Ron Paul

  Goal, Steps, Currency

  4 Copy quote

• Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Cutting, Gay

  "Maher: Reagan wrote GOP playbook" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. June 8, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Machines, Germany

  14 Copy quote

• The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Challenges, Germany

  "To Save America". Book by Newt Gingrich, www.today.com. May 17, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.

  Bert Hellinger

  Moving, One Direction, Soul

  71 Copy quote

• The president [George W. Bush] broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.

  Matthew Dowd

  Broken, President, Addresses

  "Farewell To All That: An Oral History Of The Bush White House" by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, www.vanityfair.com. February 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around - the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course - of course, a black man can't be the real boss?

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Real, Stupid, Party

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

  Marcel Dionne

  Regret, Hockey, Winning

  56 Copy quote

• This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.

  Marva Dawn

  Joining In, Looks, Answers

  Marva J. Dawn (2009). “In the Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Beautiful, Dream, Powerful

  35 Copy quote

• I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Humor, People

  4 Copy quote

• California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

  W. C. Fields

  Fall, California, Rose

  4 Copy quote

• History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Race, People

  16 Copy quote

• Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

  10 Copy quote

• We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Together, Secrecy, Keenness

  17 Copy quote

• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  College, America, Democracy

  15 Copy quote

• Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

  A. B. Simpson

  Past, People, Secret

  30 Copy quote

• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  John Shimkus

  Country, War, Fall

  7 Copy quote

• Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

  Peter Seymour

  Love, Heart, Bridges

  17 Copy quote

• However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Flower, Winter

  18 Copy quote

• All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Real, Progress, Movement

  7 Copy quote

• And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

  Josiah Royce

  Winning, Individuality, Essentials

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

  John of the Cross

  Strong, Broken, Bird

  188 Copy quote

• The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom

  John Stokes

  Heart, Garden, Roots

  6 Copy quote