William Manchester Quotes

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

William Manchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1922 - June 1, 2004

Topics

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If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

Jim Cooper

FaithMoneyGovernmentCreditYou

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

Jim DeMint

ThinkYouLookI CanDebtLimit

When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.

John Battelle

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There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Robert Irwin

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

Michael Bennet

SchoolMindReasonReformNo Reason

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Matt Bellamy

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I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Joseph Pulitzer

FriendPowerGreatDayManPeople

Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.

Chellie Pingree

PoliticsInternetAdviceEnvironment

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately

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