Jerry West Quotes

I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.

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• The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• I've been in more laps than a napkin.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • Want
  • Fashion

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Want
  • You
  • Numbers

• I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Peace

• When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • High
  • Rock
  • Heaven

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Up
  • School
  • Family

• Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Freedom
  • Language
  • Countries

• I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself.

  

  Jerry West
  • High