“Everything I did, I did for my country.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Nate Thayer interview (1997)
Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
2005
“Everything I did, I did for my country.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Nate Thayer interview (1997)
Suze Robertson (1855–1922) Dutch painter
(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Suze Robertson:) Al is dat klassikale lesgeven ook zóó vermoeiend.. ..ik zette mijn werk plichtmatig voort, zodat wel niemand 't aan mij kon merken. Want ik leefde op het vaste voornemen: over eenige jaren ga ik schilderen. En daar spaarde ik voor, door in alles zoo sober mogelijk te wezen.
Source: 1900 - 1922, Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson' (1912), p. 31
Porphyry (philosopher) (233–301) Neoplatonist philosopher
2, 22, 1
On Abstinence from Killing Animals
“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”
Dorothy L. Sayers book Have His Carcase
Variant: Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Source: Have His Carcase (1932)
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 1 (1 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
News conference (18 August 1999), prior to the second Million Youth March[citation needed]
Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City
When asked to estimate the number of casualties terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, at a news conference (11 September 2001) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/bn.42.html; this is often misquoted as "More than we can bear."