George Quotes - page 4

I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening. (Lee Hsien Loong)
George the Third Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. View quote
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Conservatives - or better, pro-corporate apologists - hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right ... This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove - the reputed brain of George W. Bush - as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today. View quote
Bill Moyers
You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle. View quote
Hillary Clinton
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. View quote
Carroll Quigley
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. View quote
Mark Twain
Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. View quote
Barack Obama
You don't understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us. View quote
Vladimir Putin
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won! View quote
Walter Scott
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! (Robin Williams)
I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy. View quote
Robert Gibbs
Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again? View quote
Oscar Levant
Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school. View quote
John Major
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. View quote
Mehmet Oz
All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI-at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile! View quote
Mindy Kaling
How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it! He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George) View quote
Rick Riordan
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. View quote
Sara Shepard
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. View quote
Sebastian Faulks
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free. View quote
Philippa Gregory
I can't believe George Bush might be president. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret. View quote
Brian Selznick
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. View quote
Graham Joyce