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“We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.”

World Needs Ends Century Standing Army Trade Minimum Taxation Twentieth Century

Author:Erastus Wiman

“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”

Ends Standing Scruples

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.”

People Thinking Way Humans Mean Different Ends Might Speak Human Beings Ability Doubt Dog Standing Communicate Visuals No Doubt Fur Unfriendly Ability To Speak Communicating With Others

Book:Micromessaging

Source: Micromessaging

“The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.”

Persons Ends Care Lasts Success Winning White Standing Flags Who Cares White Flag

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we were in college: Who are we? Where do we come from? And why are we standing around outside on the night before finals, do we want to end up making elevator parts for a living like our father or what?”

Want Looks Heart Ends Bigs Science Night Asks Father Sky College Pure Standing Finals Midnight Our Father Night Sky Elevators Astronomers Big Questions

Book:The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

“Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.”

Wells Ends Eye Lasts Tears Standing Favourite Indiana Crusades Tears In Your Eyes

Author:Ray Winstone

“If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.”

Ifs Want Long Ends Conflict Standing Prepared Compromise Be Prepared

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.”

Love Ends Standing Holes Beloved Pedestal

Author:Mason Cooley

“Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.”

Firsts Ends Kids Goal Levels Four Fronts Standing Overcoming Shy Swim Swimming

Author:Summer Sanders

“If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.”

Ifs Want Ends Home Film Hours Rooms Watches Bed Standing Hotel Bites Fifteen Hotel Rooms

Author:Colin Farrell

“The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.”

Way Art Ends Artist Natural Enemy Standing Odds Disguise Multitudes Natural Enemies

Book:Robert Altman: Interviews

Source: Robert Altman: Interviews

“....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”

People Ends Differences Standing Army Court Observation Ministers Pursued Second Amendment

Book:Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses

Source: Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses

“For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.”

Writing Ends Done Dark Talking Standing Radio Favorites Things Monologues

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.”

Heart Ends Language Silence Painting Standing Mortals Breathing Statues

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.”

Ends Roles Effects Objects Capable Standing Symbolic

Author:Andre Breton

“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.”

“Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.”

People Ends Shows America Position Weapons Gun Standing Safety Backgrounds Checks Instant Voting Assault Consensus Bans Loopholes Assault Weapons Gun Safety Background Checks

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.”

Ifs Want Feels Humans Looks Ends Moments Stories Bigs Human Beings Interesting Position Civilization Lucky Standing Witness Very Interesting

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“The second show [Judas Priest] there was a point where I stood back. We had a 40-foot ramp that went out into the crowd. Rob came out on the bike. It was raining. He drove the bike to the end of the ramp. I'm standing there looking at him. Rain coming down. Lights flashing. Blue smoke everywhere from the bike. He's on the bike with his metal horns in the air, and there were 30,000 people in front of him screaming. I remember thinking, "This is real."”

People Thinking Real Ends Shows Light Remember Air Feet Fronts Rain Standing Blue Crowds Smoke Priests Metals Bike Horns Standing There Judas Ramp Judas Priest

Author:Richie Faulkner

“When Donald Trump talks about the rigged, corrupt system, remember, he's standing up for the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. This is not about him. This is about the people. This is about folks who are white-knuckled at the end of each month trying to pay the bills. This is about the people who feel like their pressing their nose against the glass of the rigged system and can't get in, they're just watching everybody else benefit.”

People Men Feels Trying Ends Remember White Pay Months Trump Benefits Standing Bills Forgotten Folks Glasses Noses Rigged Each Month

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.”

“If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.”

Ifs Want Long Ends Sides Mets Demand Conflict Percent Standing Prepared Compromise Be Prepared Both Sides Settlement Either Or

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.”

Ifs World Mind Children Art Said Ends Stories Use Hands Teacher Pieces Fronts Art Is Standing Profession Novelists Passages Tangible Chalk Didactic Blackboard

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.”

Needs Ends Able Left Justice Standing Former Administration Department Employee Competitors Steers Goldman Sachs

Author:Michael Moore

“Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.”

Knows Ends Light Song Hours Know How Sun Records Fronts Couple Six Standing Microphones

Author:Jill Scott

“It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.”

Men May Ends Certain Literature Fire Standing Pity Observation Sufficient Candle Standing Out Great Day

Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.”

Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories

“Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.”

“The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.”

People Ends Dream Seems Speak Cities Air Figures Changed Bed Standing Bus Mates Chill Doorways Deceased City Bus

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.”

People Feels Two Ideas Ends Play Remember Responsibility Identity Products Findings Standing Deny Officials Customs Officers Exotic Luggage

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws. "Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?" Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped. The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.”

Ifs Want Made Ends Hard Eye Lying Speak Sides Grief Enemy Blood Fronts Hair Taste Standing Cat Rage Made It Warrior Fixed His Eyes Packs Fur Paws Why Her Tigerstar

Author:Erin Hunter

“Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing”

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Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.”

Men Ends Use Faces Decision Consciousness Objects Terrible Solitude Standing Function Things Change Dead Man Standing There Remnants Emblems

Author:Paul Auster

“Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.”

Thinking Kind I Can Ends Feelings Bigs House Special Quiet Bird Concepts Standing Hey Dramatic Good Times Melancholy Vacation Something Special Closure Where She Went Birds Chirping

Author:Gayle Forman

“Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.”

Knows Want Feels Ends Moments Reality Running Together Laughing Forever Standing Sticks Leaving Flesh Awkward Footsteps Forks Standing There Realness

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a folding chair, one foot on the edge of the casket, and she was taking pictures with a disposable camera.”

Ends Rooms Feet Standing Cameras Edges Chairs Grandma Larry Disposable Taking Pictures Folding Caskets

Book:High Five

Source: High Five

“Now I’m just standing here on the conveyor. Along for the ride. I reach the end, turn around, and go back the other way. The world has been distilled. Being dead is easy. After a few hours of this, I notice a female on the opposite conveyor. She doesn’t lurch or groan like most of us. Her head just lolls from side to side. I like that about her. That she doesn’t lurch or groan. I catch her eye and stare at her.”

World Way Has Beens Ends Eye Turns Easy Sides Hours Female Standing Opposites Staring Her Eyes Along For The Ride

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”

Source: His Last Bow and Others: Sherlock Holmes Collections

“The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.”

Source: Going Bovine

“Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.”

People Thinking Knows Want Wells Said Ends Like You Standing Bigger Dare What You Want Monsters Bars Urges Italian Lions Lunch Shut Up San Francisco Mistress Virginia Bigger Picture Sphinx

Author:Michael Scott

“She’d always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his way to her. This was as close as she’d ever come to it, she supposed. Standing at Diana’s side. Imagining.”

Men Way Feels Ends Sides Powerful Watches Standing Handsome Diana Ballroom Powerful Man

Author:Tessa Dare

“Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.”

“And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.”

World Giving Humans Ends Matter Whole Moments Feelings Lost Left Loses Love Is Love You Losing Standing Agree Whole World That Moment Possessed Being Human Bargains Standing There

Book:Time Enough for Drums

Source: Time Enough for Drums

“I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.”

World Life Believe May Stills Ends Wisdom Pain Life Is Purpose Pleasure Achieve Standing Gods Will Purpose Of Life End Of Life I Still Believe Truth Of God

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.”

Firsts Ends Jobs Winning Hours Lines Chance Millions Five Week New York Willing Standing Funny Inspirational Pathetic Fever Dead Ends Old Saying Standing In Line

Author:Dennis Miller

“Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”

People Ends Country States Differences Masters Revolution Arms Please Gun Standing Army Court Command Observation Ministers Gun Control Pursued Second Amendment

Author:Aristotle

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