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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The road to success is always under construction.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.