In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not th...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN We lack rituals in this modern world.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certain...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting marri...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and final...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN It's very tough when two creative people are together.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a wa...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'm a movie buff.
GEORGE MCGOVERN I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ...
WILLIAM MCGOVERN No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
GEORGE MCGOVERN You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you h...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in V...
GEORGE MCGOVERN The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war...
GEORGE MCGOVERN The longer the title, the less important the job.
GEORGE MCGOVERN The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe....
GEORGE MCGOVERN For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
GEORGE MCGOVERN The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country...
GEORGE MCGOVERN The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anyt...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
GEORGE MCGOVERN I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
GEORGE MCGOVERN When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was al...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civilit...
GEORGE MCGOVERN When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothin...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE MCGOVERN The defendant now knows he was a hair's breadth away (from) being convicted of several violent crime...
MICHAEL MCGOVERN I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the De...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Whether these decrees were signed by the president and absolutely contradictory or not, either way i...
MIKE MCGOVERN The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. I...
RAY MCGOVERN That's a loophole you can drive a Mack truck through.
RAY MCGOVERN From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN The mutiny is [probably] seen as evidence of the fact that it's a very precarious situation still.
MIKE MCGOVERN It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their ...
CHRIS MCGOVERN Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggre...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Neither side admits the allegations in the other's lawsuit, but both parties are committed to puttin...
JOHN MCGOVERN The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
GEORGE MCGOVERN Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There is...
PAT MCGOVERN I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free
GEORGE MCGOVERN The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country dee...
GEORGE MCGOVERN There is a real risk of devaluation in Venezuela. We've seen significant outflows from Brazil. ... S...
DAN MCGOVERN Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.
CHRIS MCGOVERN With increasing population density, wealth in people becomes problematic. Land is scarce, water is s...
MIKE MCGOVERN after the flood comes the whitewash.
JAMES MCGOVERN “I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
GEORGE MCGOVERN that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and wa...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
GEORGE MCGOVERN There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All yo...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly m...
GEORGE MCGOVERN After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointme...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunist...
GEORGE MCGOVERN When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can s...
GEORGE MCGOVERN He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
GEORGE MCGOVERN I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.
RAY MCGOVERN It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires i...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll...
JIM MCGOVERN The closest post office we have for him is the New Rochelle office. We certainly sympathize with him...
PAT MCGOVERN He's the one who's been advocating a move toward a currency board, concentrating foreign exchange ea...
DAN MCGOVERN [This] has really helped a great deal, ... It has captured some of the problem with short selling, w...
DAN MCGOVERN by year's end, these questions will be resolved and interest rates will come down.
DAN MCGOVERN Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
GEORGE MCGOVERN I met my wife in South Dakota.
GEORGE MCGOVERN It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and y...
GEORGE MCGOVERN It's quite rewarding to think the money is going to investors. The disappointing aspect to me is tha...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN It was a challenge to get to 46 percent, a big-time challenge.
FRANCIS MCGOVERN The process of designing a distribution plan in connection with the global research analyst settleme...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
GEORGE MCGOVERN Dear Matthew-
There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaw...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN Joe Moakley not only taught us how to live, he taught us how to die, with great class and great dign...
JAMES MCGOVERN [Moakley was working] up until the very end, ... up until he couldn't do it anymore.
JAMES MCGOVERN The world is gonna miss Joe Moakley; I already do,
JAMES MCGOVERN Don't go home and tell your constituents you did anything for them. In truth, you haven't,
JAMES MCGOVERN This bill is not about fixing the Endangered Species Act, it's about gutting it,
JAMES MCGOVERN It's wonderful that so many people are here to offer their help and love, ... It not only says a lot...
JAMES MCGOVERN After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the...
JAMES MCGOVERN [Democrats contended that Republicans cannot be trusted to run an impartial investigation.] After th...
JAMES MCGOVERN The grandstand structures were also in a similar deteriorated condition due to age,
JAMES MCGOVERN Breast-feeding babies digest food more rapidly and need to feed more frequently. That's tiring for m...
PAT MCGOVERN I didn't know to be as terrified as I should have been, ... I was sort of sent to the edge and told ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back o...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm s...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN For years, people kept saying to me, 'You have such a big voice, you should go into theater.' I was ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the r...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent ther...
RAY MCGOVERN One Bright Shining Moment
GEORGE MCGOVERN His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of...
JOHN MCGOVERN I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW