Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.
Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology.
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.
