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Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.
Paul Ryan

Two, Language, Party

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Words, Matter, Proverb

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin

Happy, Forget, Same

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
Jerry Saltz

Strange, Between, Space

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Money, Best

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
William Shatner

Today, Growing, Quite

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins

Nothing, Living, Worth

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

Ambition, Ability, Tragedy

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus

Good, Friend, Fortune

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.
Alanis Morissette

Long, Short, Again

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More

Time, Greatest, Problems

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka

Lies, Possible, Telling

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Rest, Taken

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan

Politics, Great, Hope

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth, Words, Fame

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

Leadership, Men, Leader

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
Henry Van Dyke

Place, Around, Sow

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
Robert Plant

Time, Same, Sing

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
Justin Bieber

Funny, Two, Older

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy

Life, Friendly, Another

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle

Words, Away, Talk

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Life, Enemy, Friends

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall

Time, Mind, Him

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton

Hate, Character, Nothing

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

Children, Seeing, Teenagers

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
Bryant H. McGill

Mistakes, Person, Makes

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
Kate Clinton

Great, Night, Try

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

Another, Unhappy, Childhood

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Herman Hesse

Happiness, Feeling, Nothing

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
Jeff Bridges

School, Different, Wonderful

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