Jacob K. Javits Quotes

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Jacob K. Javits

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• Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Comfort
  • Comfortable

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Man
  • Black
  • Light

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Art
  • History

• I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Live
  • Me
  • Someone

• The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Calm
  • Quiet
  • Winds

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage
  • Bed
  • Legs

• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Evil
  • Eye
  • New

• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Want
  • Personality
  • Without

• India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • High
  • Technology
  • Demand

• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Live
  • Remember

• Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Color
  • Genius
  • Rainbow

• I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Forgive

• I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.

  

  Alan Smith
  • Emotional

• In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Story
  • Creation
  • Atheism

• It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

  

  Jacob K. Javits