He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
Recitation: by Male by Female
What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.
John McCain
WorldAmericaGrowingAggressive
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
John Henrik Clarke
FamilyLoveFatherMotherRichLand
Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
Angela Merkel
HopePeopleCountryBecomeAbroad
In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.
Mercer Reynolds
FriendBusinessTogetherPartnerships
Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.
Sigrid Nunez
CriticismEncouragementWantMy Own
It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
Judy Holliday
MeWinningMuchOscarMeant
Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
DailyLittle GirlsLittleDependent
I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
Donny Most
MyselfBeliefAlwaysStartedHad
I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.
Chris Zylka
PeopleThinkWalkingSomethingGoing
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
FreePrideStubbornAchieveDesire
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Anne Stevenson
MarriageMyselfPoetryBookTragedy
For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.
Asa Butterfield
CharacterJusticeMeWorldDoneHe
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