James Carville Quotes

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

James Carville

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Night
  • Day
  • Windows

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • War
  • Deep

• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • Sure
  • Achievements

• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Anticipate

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Turn

• We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Building

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Marriage

• I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Find
  • Adopting
  • Surrogacy

• Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Feelings
  • Social
  • Manifestation

• You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Small

• Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

  

  Darold Treffert
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Autism

• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Church
  • Disillusioned
  • Compromising

• You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

  

  James Carville