Charles W. Pickering Quotes

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

Charles W. Pickering

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 29, 1937

Topics

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I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

Jimmy Chin

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My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.

John Burroughs

LifeFlowerMindFruitMy LifeWay

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats

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I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.

Robert Rinder

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This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

MorningWake UpSmellPotatoesUp

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

Spike Jonze

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Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

Roxane Gay

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A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Mary Pope Osborne

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You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

Mike White

PoliticalYouPlaceEmotionalCome

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Martin Seligman

PositiveGoalsServicePeopleFree

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Johnny Depp

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In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Arne Jacobsen

Small ThingsQualitySmallSilver

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