United Quotes - Page 3

• Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

  Jack Nicholson

  Life, President, United States

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• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Europe, Political, United States

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Long, People

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• An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

  Walter Lippmann

  Offering, Stronger, Links

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• We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Devotion, Vocation

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

  Glenn Beck

  Zero, Thinking, Desire

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• I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Years, Ideas

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

  Epictetus

  Wisdom, Impossible, Should

  Epictetus (1928). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian ; the Manual, and Fragments”

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Actors, Want

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• God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

  George O. Wood

  Christian, Thinking, Roles

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• As long as we are
  successful on the pitch, then I
  will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex
  Ferguson is planning to step
  down just yet!

  Paul Ince

  Successful, Thinking, Long

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• The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

  Rudy Giuliani

  America, Enemy, Lessons

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• Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Children, Equality

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• It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Expression, Political

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• As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

  Barack Obama

  President, United States, Bluffs

  "Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. March 2, 2012.

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• One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sunset, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Love, Truth, Eye

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• In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

  Thomas Paine

  Belief, Reason, Deism

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• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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