Betty Williams Quotes

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Like
  • Seem

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Band

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Winning

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Shadow

• At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.

  

  Peter Nygard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fashion

• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Today
  • Peace
  • Effort

• The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

  

  Betty Williams
  • Done
  • Peace