James K. Polk Quotes

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

James K. Polk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849

Topics

PassionGreatGovernmentCreateOwn

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Jimmy Dean

YouGetting OldGoKnowMoreOld

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Joe Biden

EconomyTaxesDisasterOutMiddle

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Jill Greenberg

ChildrenTimePainSufferingLaugh

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

Joel Coen

CommunityGrowing UpInfluenceYou

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

John Crowley

CompassionWorldThinkKnowLiving

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

Robert Smith

LimitsTryingYouFindGoKnow

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

Meredith Whitney

BusinessMoneyMaking MoneyYouOut

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

Sterling K. Brown

AttitudeGratitudeAlways

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

Stjepan Hauser

MusicCreativityPeopleCoolKind

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Rita Mae Brown

LifePeopleMy LifeNeverCatMany

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

RuPaul

PlaceHollywoodRealIdeaReal Place

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

HappinessHumanityDiscoveryNew

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