I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded that makes me feel so good and full and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to ya know these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times what are you really showing all of this concern for?

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on presuppositions.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

As you enter positions of trust and power dream a little before you think.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people not chairs and positions.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have for personal religious convictions not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.