A Quotes
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“A president has to provide leadership to gain support.”
“A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.”
“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”
Source: The unfinished country: a book of American symbols
“A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.”
“A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.”
“A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.”
“A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.”
“A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”
“A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.”
“A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side - unacceptable.”
“A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.”
“A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.”
“A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.”
“A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.”
“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.”
“A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.”
Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
“A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
“A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.”
“A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.”
“A Presidential speech by a real President on Peace in the World
John Kennedy 10th June 1963
“We need to examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many think it is impossible. Too many think it is unreal. But this is a dangerous defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that War is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are man made and they therefore can be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable. I am not here referring to the absolute and universal concept of peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the values of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a more practical more attainable goal—based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution of human institutions in a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single simple key to his peace—no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic not static, changing to meet the needs of each new generation. For peace is a process, a way of solving problems. So let us not be blind to our differences but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and the means by which these differences can be resolved, and if we now can not end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air, we all cherish our childrens futures and we are all mortal.”
“A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.”
“A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“A press release announces your news. A media alert informs reporters of an event's location and time. Both belong in your trade show PR toolkit. Use the press release to share a story and the alert to drive attendance.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.”
“A pressed person is obsessed with passion. He is blessed when impressed with an opportunity to express himself; if otherwise he gets messed up in distress.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A pressurized airplane with poor quality control is a potential death trap.”
“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”
“A pretended strength is a literal weakness that can clearly be seen in every decision that has been made and every step that has been walked”
“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”
Source: Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose
“A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.”
Source: Letters
“A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.”
“A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.”
“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.”
Source: Adam Bede
“A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.”
“A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.”
“A pretty face is of no use, but to blind a lover;”
Source: Self-control: A Novel
“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
“A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.”
“A pretty girl can do no wrong.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.”
“A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.”
“A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day.”
“A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“a pretty girl, who naked is
is worth a million statues”
Source: E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1913-1962
“A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.”
“A pretty handsome jerk, I might add, but a huge, colossal megajerk nonetheless." Kenzie gave me a quick glance to see how I was taking this. I shrugged.
Not going to argue with that.
And then a second later:
She thought I was handsome?”
Source: The Lost Prince
“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...”
“A pretty little thing like you with that sassy mouth and no husband or boyfriend? Are you a widow or a workaholic?”
Source: Crossfire Christmas
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