Fellows Quotes - Page 7

• An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Optimism, Literature

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• While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Country, Veterans Day, Military

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• Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Support, Majority, Tonight

  Address to the Nation on VietnamWar, 3 Nov. 1969. The term silent majority is found as early as 1870, when the Economist (19 Nov.) referred to "the silent majority which so seldom appears at the polls." See Petronius 2; Edward Young 1

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• Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Reality, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

  Sarah Palin

  Journey, Discovery, Citizens

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Cutting, Priorities

  "Pelosi finally weighs in on tax deal" by Matt Negrin, www.politico.com. December 7, 2010.

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Ducks, Issues, Trying

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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

  Steven Pinker

  Paris, Turns, Related

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  J. B. Priestley

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Fellow Man, Lines

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• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

  Silly, Stupidity, President

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• When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

  Jonathan Raban

  Men, Imagination, Vision

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Men, Community, Citizens

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Character, Patriotic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Humor, Russia

  Remarks during radio microphone test, 11 Aug. 1984

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• I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

  Oliver Reed

  Girl, Hurt, Kissing

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• It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

  Jules Renard

  Anger, Thinking, Mad

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• Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

  Samuel Richardson

  Human Nature, Disposition, Humans

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• So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

  Will Rogers

  Being Different, Way, Serious

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

  Will Rogers

  Mass, Cheaper, Courses

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Years, Crowds

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Children, School

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Smart, Political, Insightful

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• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fellow Man, Natural

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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