Bob Woodward Quotes

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

Bob Woodward

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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Engagement
  • Open
  • Dialogue

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Language

• When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Man

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Twin

• I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • School
  • Done

• No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Problem

• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Director
  • Tone

• It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Cute

• I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • High
  • Uniform

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Law

• You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Age

• A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

  

  Clementine Paddleford

• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  

  Bjork
  • Up

• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Game
  • Fall
  • Practice

• A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • People
  • Business
  • Golf

• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Creature
  • God's lilies
  • God work

• The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

  

  Bob Woodward