Pierre Elliott Trudeau Famous Quotes
"My life is one long curve, full of turning points."
"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)"
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada."
"Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them."
"Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent."
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Quotations
"We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought."
Etty Hillesum
"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."
Sydney Smith
"I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way."
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation."
Sid Taylor
"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman
"Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session."
Daniel Webster
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
Benjamin Franklin
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
"I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
Bill Veeck