Met Quotes - page 4

In Washington last week, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of 200 high school students. There were no survivors. (Tina Fey)
Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me! View quote
Miriam Makeba
Jack: I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them. View quote
Jack Benny
Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution. View quote
Franz von Papen
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. View quote
Colin Powell
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. View quote
Georges Braque
Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today. View quote
Rick Santorum
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified. (Jefferson Davis)
Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I am a part of all I have met. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. View quote
Raymond Chandler
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946 ... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz. View quote
Norman Mailer
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest. View quote
Karen Blixen
Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance. View quote
Brian Cowen
Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, 'Got any shoes you're not using' (Steven Wright)
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her. View quote
Cesare Pavese
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education. View quote
Joseph Addison
My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. View quote
George W. Bush
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain. View quote
Jon Stewart
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