Jeannette Rankin Quotes
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
-
My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
-
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
-
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
-
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
-
If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
-
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
-
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
-
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
-
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
-
I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
-
Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
-
Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
-
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
-
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
-
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
-
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
-
Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.
-
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
-
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
