County Quotes

• And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

  Robert James Waller

  Bridges, Acting, Gone

  "Fictional character: Francesca". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Comfort, Looks

  "Fictional character: Robert Kincaid". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

  Robert James Waller

  Mother, Children, Moving

  "The Bridges of Madison County". www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

  Robert James Waller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Two

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.23, Random House

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• I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

  Robert James Waller

  Long, Feelings, Sometimes

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• I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

  Terry Brooks

  Winter, Boys, Three

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• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  Jack Kingston

  Cost, World, Rehabilitation

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• I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

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• If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

  Edward Hopper

  Energy, Done, Ifs

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• Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hard Times, Men, Debt Free

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 13, 1879.

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• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Style, Quality

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• The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Political, Politics

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• I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

  Travis Barker

  Play, Orange, Guy

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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• And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have...

  Chris Christie

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Christie: ‘Treat New Jerseyans Like Adults’". Interview with Neil Cavuto, maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

  John Aubrey

  Journey, Oxford, Silver

  John Aubrey (1969). “Natural history of Wiltshire”

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• I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Writing, Years, Paper

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• We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Zero, Priorities

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

  Bob Filner

  Care, Site, Integrated

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• What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

  Peter Garrett

  Promise, Telling The Truth, Politician

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think our show is very different from Orange County.

  Josh Schwartz

  Thinking, Orange, Different

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• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  Nancy McKeon

  Opportunity, Detectives, Goes On

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• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Support, Would Be, Body

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• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, Years, Realization

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Running, Zero, Sleep

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