Bulgarian Proverb Quotes

What goes up must come down.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

The events of future history ... will be of the same nature—–or nearly so—–as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it…. Along the same lines, people who aren't talented in a given area tend not to be able to recognize the talents or good ideas of others, from co-workers to politicians. This may impede the democratic process, which relies on citizens having the capacity to identify and support the best candidate or policy.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Politicians are not the most reflective people in the world.

If generations past could get things so badly wrong, then we are forever vulnerable as well.

Whenever I had to make a difficult decision as a Congressman, I thoud think about the average citisen in my Congressional districr and how he would advise me if he knew everythign I knew about the issue.

Governing has always been hard.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.