Christine Todd Whitman Quotes

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Christine Todd Whitman

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• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Write

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Want
  • End
  • Credit

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Never
  • Model
  • Thing

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bad

• Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Truth

• There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Words
  • Deep
  • Reach

• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Small
  • Fall