(839 quotes found)
“I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.”
Dan Quayle
“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”
J. Donald Walters
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
Oscar Wilde
“Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.”
David Letterman
“We are getting more and more imports from abroad”
George W. Bush
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other”
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
William James
“Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed”
Edward Heath
“When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
Winston Churchill