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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Art
  • Interesting

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Calling
  • Disrespectful

• After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • New
  • India
  • China

• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Earth

• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Food
  • Never
  • Sick

• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Today
  • Serious
  • Failure

• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

  

  Len Wein
  • Time
  • Character
  • Black

• The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • Order

• The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest of our time. It is a quest fraught with difficulty, as it takes place at the intersection of some of our culture’s most controversial issues, including environmentalism and the market economy, personal identity and the consumer culture, and artistic expression and the meaning of life.

  

  Andrew Potter
  • Time
  • Essential
  • Quest

• I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Friends
  • Devil
  • Bridge

• I do remember meeting 'The Donald.' He seemed to really enjoy the WrestleMania 4 battle royal. He watched me take a very hard front turnbuckle bump, and it seemed to stun him that I wasn't seriously hurt. Backstage, Trump gave me a big smile and a handshake.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Enjoy

• What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

  

  Epictetus
  • Events
  • Judgments
  • People's Minds