Betty Ford Quotes

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

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• I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Help
  • Personal
  • Trainer

• I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Positive
  • Jump

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Help
  • Stop

• Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Help
  • Down
  • Impact

• R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Help
  • Me
  • Support

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Help
  • Political
  • Party

• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Help
  • Think

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Love
  • Why
  • Grace

• If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Money
  • Future
  • Care

• I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Book

• I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Devil

• Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Power
  • Help