"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Eggs Quotes #Meat Quotes #Use Quotes

“I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.”
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black
“I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living, living in a mansion wouldn't do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we're in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And that's a secret. People don't know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, but it's the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall; it helped a lot. But it's the same place, the same grounded nature.”
“This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.”
“People look at me and they dont see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.”
“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
“I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.”

Source : "The Voice". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 6, 2014.
“I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Writer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
George Washington
1st U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
William McKinley
25th U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President