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«I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.»
Author: Alexander Haig
(General)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
presided, presiding, removal, unhappily, vice president
«I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.»
Author: Alphonse Karr
| Keywords:
picked, presided, presiding, rehearsal, rehearsals, sleep with, specially
«In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
World
| Keywords:
evolution, excepting, geniuses, one species, preside, presided, presiding, primitive, There exists
«A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.»
«If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
christen, christened, christening, fairy, indestructible, preside, presided, presiding, The Good Fairy, throughout
«The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis
| Keywords:
desperate, entered, hitting, institutions, presided, presiding, referred, referred to, resilience, traumatic, walk of life
«Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.»
Author: Barbara Bush
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
footsteps, out in, preside, presided, presiding, spouse, the President, The White, The White House, White House
«The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.»
«And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!»
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
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