Ed Rendell Quotes

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

Growing Greener doesnt produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.

we dislike those we've injured.

I can't exist without books.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Nobody really lives in the present.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I love the concept of community energy.

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

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Here, ” he said, “I place the man I was aside the man I am now. And we have not the same hope nor thought, yet are one continuous breath from the body of I, Akiyama Akio.