Elliott Abrams Quotes

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Elliott Abrams

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• It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Song

• I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Stupidity
  • Reporter

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Together
  • Nature

• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Nothing
  • Venture
  • Gained

• As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Losing
  • Philadelphia

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Creative

• I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Years

• I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Curiosity

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• Gandhi, that great apostle of non-violence, and Aung San, the founder of a national army, were very different personalities, but as there is an inevitable sameness about the challenges of authoritarian rule anywhere at any time, so there is a similarity in the intrinsic qualities of those who rise up to meet the challenge.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache.

  

  Win Butler
  • Good
  • Hipster

• The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Pride

• I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Trying
  • Done

• I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

  

  William Hamilton Maxwell
  • Silent
  • Quiet
  • Listeners

• The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Talking

• I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

  

  John Adams
  • Long
  • Democracy

• I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Trust
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• Pessimism is rife in Israel.

  

  Elliott Abrams