Rounds Quotes

• We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

  Mike Rounds

  Hard Work, Simple, Effort

  Michael Rounds' State of the State Address at the South Dakota State Capitol, legis.sd.gov. January 11, 2005.

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• As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Use, Gas

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• The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

  Mike Rounds

  Opinion, Court, Reversal

  "South Dakota bans most abortions". www.cnn.com. March 6, 2006.

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• But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

  Mike Rounds

  Strong, Believe, People

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• The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

  Mike Rounds

  Important, Campaigns, Election

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• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

  Mike Rounds

  People, Risk, Age

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• Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  Mike Rounds

  Marriage, Men, Done

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• There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

  Mike Rounds

  Race, People, Today

  Michael Rounds' State of the State Address, legis.sd.gov. January 11, 2005.

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• The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

  Arnold Bennett

  Past, Yield, People

  Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, Alan Alexander Milne, Novel Coward, Robert Cedric Sherriff (1951). “Modern Plays ...”

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• We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, Philosophy, Secret

  Witness Tree (1942) "The Secret Sits"

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• There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

  Paul Auster

  Reality, World, Plaits

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• For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

  Pete Wentz

  Inspirational, Moving On, Loyalty

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• Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Patience, Thinking, Curves

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.174, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Squares, Social, Holes

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

  Gertrude Stein

  Once Upon A Time, Goes On, World

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Sun, Devotion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Years

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• I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

  Heidi Klum

  Fashion, Shows, Fashion Show

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• In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Men, Order, Police

  "The Real Navy Yard Scandal" by Charles Krauthammer, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2013.

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Sleep, Organization

  "Philip Larkin's Everyday Poetry" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 1989.

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• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Addiction, Ownership, Mass Consumption

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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