Bob Newhart Quotes

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

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• I ended the war a horse ahead.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War
  • Horse
  • Ahead

• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Racism
  • Mission

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Like
  • Missing

• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Father
  • Religion
  • Son

• Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Good
  • Family
  • Home

• The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • You
  • Body

• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Foundation

• While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Action
  • Serious

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Time
  • Car
  • Calendar

• The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.

  

  Astro
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Song

• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  

  James Buchan
  • Long
  • Money
  • Universe

• Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Career
  • Comedy