Chris Evert Quotes

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Chris Evert

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired

• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Energy
  • Inside
  • Alpha

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • American

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Day
  • Same

• Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Standardized

• I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Family
  • Giving

• In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Team
  • Military
  • Red

• I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dog

• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • God
  • Me

• Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Military

• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common … I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her 'Elsie Fag'.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Mother

• I am sure that entering the exchange rate mechanism was absolutely right and is still right. I regret that we did not do so five years earlier, but that is history. Economic monetary union must come as soon as possible, and with it the single currency. Industry wants the single currency, and we must pay attention to the requests and demands of industry.

  

  Edward Heath
  • History
  • Attention
  • Single

• People can judge me for what I’ve done. And I think when somebody’s out in the public eye, that’s what they do. So I’m fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I’ve always stood for.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Charity

• Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Loneliness
  • Offering

• In like a dimwit, out like a light.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Light
  • Like
  • Out

• I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Life
  • Work

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

  

  Chris Evert