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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
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I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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