Can I quote you?
An exchange of quotes in a recent post at Athens Politics got me sifting through some web sites full of famous, and some not-so-famous, quotes. Liked a bunch and thought I'd post a few:
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
— Robert Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
— Robert Kennedy
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
— John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
— John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
— Harry Truman
I had a reason for every movie I did, especially Tank Girl because I'm into horror.
— Ice T
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I had a mustache when I was 13.
— David Schwimmer
I make out with Christina Ricci ... many times. But no real love scenes. I'm dying to.
— Casey Affleck
(Joe) Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
— Muhammed Ali
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
— Muhammed Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammed Ali
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
— Robert Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
— Robert Kennedy
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
— John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
— John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
— Harry Truman
I had a reason for every movie I did, especially Tank Girl because I'm into horror.
— Ice T
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I had a mustache when I was 13.
— David Schwimmer
I make out with Christina Ricci ... many times. But no real love scenes. I'm dying to.
— Casey Affleck
(Joe) Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
— Muhammed Ali
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
— Muhammed Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammed Ali
posted by Jmac at 8:56 AM
3 Comments:
Love 'em all.
Ali'a are far and away the best, though the first one from Bobby was pretty funny too.
Yeah, as big of a Bobby fan as I am, I had never heard that one. But I laughed out loud at Ali saying you should apologize if you even dreamed of beating him.
That's tremendous.
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