Were Quotes

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.