(640 quotes found)
“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones”
Sydney Smith
“Did they try to cover it up? No ma'am, they didn't try to cover it up. Everybody knew; everybody knew what happened. Everybody heard the gunfire.”
Joe Loya
“[Marcelo told her,] Ma'am, I'm supposed to tell you after you see the photographs that General Sanchez wants to see you in his office. ... before I even saw the photographs, I was preparing words to say in a press conference - to be up front, to be honest about this, that an investigation is ongoing and there are some allegations of detainee abuse.”
Janis Karpinski
“He was always pleasant and polite - 'Yes sir, yes ma'am' - but he had that short fuse, ... As he got older, he eventually came to the realization that even though he wasn't the one responsible for where he was (in trouble and in foster care), he was the one who was going to have to (rise above it).”
Rob Davis
“Pump 4 with the red truck, you're ready to go, Ma'am, please come inside and pay when you're done pumping.”
Tim Sutton
“He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!”
Charles Dickens
“Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year”
Victor Borge
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“Being gay is not a defect, not a sickness or something bad. Gay people have a right to a dignified life,”
Joseph Muscat
“I can be inspirational..i can be depressing..i can be extremely selfish..i can be extremely selfless..i can be the happiest person you know..i can be the most down person you know..i could be your everything..but i could never be your nothing.”
jordan peters
