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Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.


Eliot Spitzer

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No. The mule has just four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN William Weld is running because he is bored. Eliot Spitzer is running to make a difference.
HOWARD WOLFSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL The proponents of the ... amendment clearly continue to try, in every way possible, to conceal from ...
CLAIRE GUTHRIE GASTANAGA Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Putting a tiger in a lions den doesnt make it any less dangerous
BRANDON BROCK Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co...
THEO ENGELA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS I made an off-hand remark that I would be chairman only so long until we have a Democrat governor of...
GEORGE PATAKI The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director ...
KENNETH LANGONE I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment...
BILL ROSENDAHL I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
MARTY RUBIN Mr. Spitzer has redefined the office of Attorney General. He has consistently supported working fami...
PETER WARD The heat signal from this planet is so strong that Spitzer was able to resolve its disk, in the sens...
DRAKE DEMING I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a differe...
BILL RICHARDSON Call it that if you like. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I like it. He's a thoroughbred.
MIKE WILLIAMS The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his li...
WIL S. HYLTON The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.
MICHAEL SCOTT Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal...
STACEY D'ERASMO The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. IRWIN MILLER No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
DILLON BURROUGHS I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule...
WILLIE JACKSON Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe....
MANDY HALE All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.
E.N. SUPEN, TURNING POINT Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The worst things in life come free to us
ED SHEERAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK None but a mule denies his family.
ANON. None but a mule denies his family.
ARABIC PROVERB None but a mule denies his family.
ARABIAN PROVERBS The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The words we speak will definitely follow us into the future & hunt us either for good or for bad.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) ... insanity is never reasonable.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it...
BILL FOSTER I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio...
EDWARD KENNEDY T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has fe...
PENELOPE MITCHELL I have submitted a proposal regarding this issue to the ongoing CPPCC session, calling for an early ...
CAI ZIXING I have to get out.
VERONICA ROTH ...Why haven’t we had sex in six days?”

“Because you have a bullet wound.”
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LORELEI JAMES The business climate has changed a lot in the last few years, post-Enron and post-Eliot Spitzer. Cou...
AAREF HILALY The business climate has changed a lot in the last few years, post-Enron and post-Eliot Spitzer. Cou...
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GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT