Brooke Astor Quotes

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • War
  • Germany
  • Defeated

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • America
  • War

• Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Job
  • Feeling

• By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • War
  • Pressure
  • Weapons

• My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Job
  • Opportunities
  • Push

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Propaganda

• Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Fight

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Job
  • Speak
  • Images

• I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Writing
  • Speak

• I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up
  • Women

• Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• Dating a creative pushes me to think outside the box.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Dating

• I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

  

  Brooke Astor
  • Job
  • War
  • Nurse