Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claimed (somewhat extravagantly) to have done entirely from life, the animals were nature morte. Since his subjects included the grizzly bear and the grey, or timber, wolf, this is easy to understand. Like all other naturalists, Audubon loved the things he killed. His views are reflected in this remark: "If a wolf passes your tent in the wilderness, he is likely to be less unpleasant than your next-door neighbor back home...
Inevitably, some Administration forces thought that McCarthy's move to unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing. "It's obviously Bobby," said one White House aide. "McCarthy has no burning conviction. He's not leading a peace movement." The remark reflected a widely held conspiracy theory that McCarthy's aim is to unite dissident Democratic support in the primaries and then throw that support to Robert Kennedy some time before next summer's Democratic Convention. Texas Governor John Connally, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's, called...
...constitution, is when the mandate entrusted to me expires. And if I wanted to make some people laugh, or others groan, I could say that I might equally well last another ten or 15 years." While the laughter was still subsiding, the general added, in perhaps the most realistic remark of the entire conference: "Frankly, I do not think...
...been used by De Gaulle over and over in private conversations. "I was told this one by two ministers who are still in the government, by one minister who has since resigned and by two senior officials in the Quai d'Orsay. Moreover, Le Monde published the remark, quoting an ambassador...
...very beautiful -- but I think it is very dreadful!" This remark from Verena, called him back to the present. "It's a real sin to put up such a building, just to glorify a lot of bloodshed. If it wasn't so majestic, I would have it pulled down...