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I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.


Charles H. Percy

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BENJAMIN PERCY I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
BENJAMIN PERCY The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...
WALKER PERCY Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More ...
WALKER PERCY We should have been out of the inning and got a win but we didn't make the plays defensively. David ...
MARK PERCY Austin pitched well for us. The thing is teams are going to get hits against our pitchers and we hav...
MARK PERCY We were pleased the way our kids hung in there in the first game and came back to win it.
MARK PERCY Their pitcher was good but again, we're not hitting the baseball. When we do, we hit it right at peo...
MARK PERCY We really had a good chance to win that game. Again, we didn't hit the ball and we didn't make some ...
MARK PERCY In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Cleme...
PERCY MONTROSE Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS