Jeannette Rankin Quotes

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hair

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sacrifice

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jeans

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Good
  • Light

• If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Humanity

• My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Parents
  • Down
  • Los Angeles

• I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Great
  • Perfect

• We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Job
  • Happy

• War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • War