Affable Quotes - Page 2

• I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time.

  Mike Huckabee

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  New York, Past, Numbers

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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• Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods us with questions, entertains us with amusing tales, and makes us feel better when our cake flops.

  Amanda Hesser

  Feel Better, Cake, Kitchen

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• Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.

  Ilana Mercer

  Father, Commitment, Boys

  "The Big Lie about Obama and Race". www.wnd.com. January 23, 2009.

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• The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

  James Kirkup

  Selfish, Ideas, Weakness

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