Ernest Hollings famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Good Friend #Hands #Giving
[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Born
Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."
-- Ernest Hollings

#Color
Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Thinking #Issues #Space
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Squares #Sea #Law
Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Blood #Arms #Valve
You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much
-- Ernest Hollings

#Too Much
Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Home #Nursing #Said
Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.
-- Ernest Hollings

#Israel #Iraq #Secure

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like aÂ good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
The hand is no different from what it creates.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

Ernest Hollings famous quotes

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