Had Quotes

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.