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Agnes Macphail Quotes

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

Agnes Macphail

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 24, 1890 - February 13, 1954

Topics

Women Believe Done I Believe Office

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Jessye Norman

Yourself Balance People Problems You

My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.

Jenny Scheinman

Character Words Story Situation Mood

Must I tell the story of my life again?

John Garfield

Life Story My Life Tell Must Again

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

John Jay

Power Earth Right Without Property

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Maureen Forrester

Mistakes Blame Better Person Better

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Nature Beautiful Wish Remember Know

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

Ron Paul

Believe Border Problems Look Go

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Mike Colter

Work Progress Man World Interesting

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

Michele Bachmann

Government Think You Go New Talk

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

Luke James

Better You Greater Get Just Hone

The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

Jason Scott Lee

Work Time Best Energy I Can Want

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

Queen Thought America Say Street