Quotes of Invade - somelinesforyou

“ When President Bush invaded Iraq after 9 11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. ”

- John Kerry

“ Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq. ”

- Alan Colmes

“ When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ”

- Elayne Boosler

“ We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ”

- Judd Gregg

“ Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. ”

- Lord Melbourne

“ You know, this President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague. ”

- Rosie O’Donnell

“ This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. ”

- Sitting Bull

“ Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it. ”

- Cynthia Payne

“ I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ”

- Peter Jennings

“ I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ”

- Bette Midler

“ The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. ”

- Adam Smith

“ If this election had gone down in another country we'd be invading them right now to install a democracy. ”

- Greg Proops

“ Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. ”

- John Dryden

“ If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ”

- Elayne Boolser

“ If the Earth got invaded by another planet or an alien race, we would all come together. Whether it's Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, whether it's Israel and Palestine, whether it's black and white, whether it's north and south, whether it's Iran versus Iraq - we would forget our differences, because we now have a common goal… to beat the enemy. ”

- Jerry Doyle

“ What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. ”

- Elbridge Gerry

“ If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time! ”

- Jules Henry

“ The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds. ”

- Yves Klein

“ Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. ”

- Daniel Morgan

“ The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues nonnegotiable demands may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his victory the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ Strategy is all about commitment. If what you're doing isn't irrevocable, then you don't have a strategy — because anyone can do it… I've always wanted to treat life like I was an invading army and there was no turning back. ”

- Troy Tyler

“ LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ If the reviewing of books be… "an ungentle craft," the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one — and that department of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment… ”

- John Cam Hobhouse
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