David Gergen Quotes

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

David Gergen

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• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Business
  • Dream

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Kids
  • More
  • Word

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• I don't believe in ghosts.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Believe
  • Ghosts

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Think
  • Morning

• I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Down
  • Old

• It costs you something to do good!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Good
  • You
  • Something

• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Mission
  • Physics
  • Airplane

• What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Men
  • Future
  • Past

• People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Performance
  • Changing

• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Pretty

• ...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Bad
  • Culture
  • Education

• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • World
  • Progress

• We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

  

  David Gergen