Zachary Taylor Quotes

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.

Zachary Taylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850

Topics

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I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

Jim Lehrer

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I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

Meg Rosoff

MomentDoctorBiologyI CanWay

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Robert M. Gates

YouGoKnowSaidSayOld

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Julia Stiles

YourselfPeopleMeThinkSomeone

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

Jools Holland

WorkTimeServiceBetterYouStay

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

Christiane Amanpour

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I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Constance Baker Motley

RacismEnvironmentBornNationPart

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

Brian Acton

RelationshipPeopleWantPermanent

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

Allen Iverson

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

SexRidiculousPleasurePosition

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

Susanne Bier

GriefMeMoviesMovementDynamic

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Shawn Colvin

ChangeThinkYouWayRecoveryStay

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