Elliott Abrams Quotes
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
Quotes to Explore
-
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
-
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
-
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
-
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
-
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
-
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
-
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
-
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
-
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
-
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
-
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
-
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
-
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
-
Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
-
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
-
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
-
The world is evolving.
-
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
-
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
-
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
