A Quotes
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“A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.”
“A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."”
“A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'”
“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”
“A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.”
“A reporter is no better than his source of information.”
“A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?”
Source: Busz po polsku
“A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.”
“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”
“A reporter once asked me why I think progressive men who earn significantly less than their breadwinning wives still won't quit their jobs to take care of their children. Why do they still hold on to their careers, even if taking care of the children would make more financial sense because the cost of childcare is higher than their net salary?
I think I know the answer to that now, and it sucks. Women are not expected to live a life for themselves. When women dedicate their lives to children, it is deemed a worthy and respectable choice. When women dedicate themselves to a passion outside of the family that doesn't involve worshiping their husbands or taking care of their kids, they're seen as selfish, cold, or unfit mothers. But when a man spends hours grueling over a craft, profession, or project, he's admired and seen as a genius. And when a man finds a woman who worships him, who dedicates her life to serving him, he's lucky. But when a man dedicates himself to taking care of his children it's seen as a last resort. That it must be because he ran out of other options. That it's plan Z. That it's an indicator of his inability to provide for his family. Basically, that he's a fucking loser. I think it's one of the most important falsehoods we need to shatter when talking about women's rights.”
Source: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
“A reporter shoots first, aims later.”
“A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."”
“A reporter told me it is very rare to see a woman of my age in the movies. Right! In the movies! But they have been for so long in very serious and important positions in life: scientists, prime ministers, candidates to be the president.”
“A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.”
“A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.”
“A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement”
“A reprimand does not often repair underperformance. It takes coaching, culture and candor.”
Source: Lead by choice, not by checks
“A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.”
“A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.”
“A reprodução das relações de produção não pode deixar de ser o empreendimento de uma classe. Ela se realiza ao longo de uma luta de classes que opõe a classe dominante à classe explorada.”
Source: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
“A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.”
“A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.”
“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.”
Source: A Republic, If You Can Keep It. -
“A republic may be called the climate of civilization.”
“A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.”
Source: The federalist papers
“A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.”
“A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.”
“A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.”
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
“A Republican Congressman, Rep. Chris Lee, was caught flirting with a woman trolling for dates on Craigslist and sent her a shirtless photo of himself. He lied about his age and his marital status. He said he was 39 and divorced. He's 46 and married, though being a Republican congressman, I'm guessing he's really 60 and gay.”
“A Republican establishment member in the media would be David Brooks in the New York Times, the so-called conservative columnist. He's basically a moderate. He favors big government if run by the people he thinks are smart. He's not crazy about conservatives.”
“A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.”
“A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.”
Source: Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).
“A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.”
“A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.”
Source: The Writings of Will Rogers
“A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.”
“A Republican seizure of power based not on the strength of the party's ideas but on massive disfranchisement denies citizens not only their rights, but also the "talisman" of humanity that voting represents. The lie of voter fraud breaks a World War II veteran down into a simple, horrifying statement: "I wasn't a citizen no more." It forces a man, a retired engineer who was instrumental in building this nation, into facing a bitter truth: "I am not wanted in this state." It eviscerates the key sense of self-worthy in a disabled man who has to pen the painful words "My constitutional rights have been stripped from me." It maligns thousands of African Americans who resiliently weathered the Missouri cold and hours of bureaucratic runarounds as nothing but criminals and frauds. It leaves a woman suffering from lung cancer absolutely "distraught" and convinced that "they prevented us from voting," because none of her IDs could penetrate Wisconsin's law. It shatters the dying wish of a woman who, in her last moments on earth, wanted to cast a vote for possibly the first woman president of the United States. But an expired driver's license meant none of that was to be.”
Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!”
“A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!”
“A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894
“A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? “I am Pure Soul”, it is that Self.”
“A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Who is Self? That which is “I am Pure Soul”!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.”
“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.”
“A reputation is really hard to live down.”