Jim Nussle Quotes

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Light
  • Path

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Character
  • Book
  • Help

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Mystery

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Want
  • Find
  • Young

• Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Time
  • Women
  • May

• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Age
  • Security

• People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Realize
  • Roots

• Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Past

• Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

  

  Edie Brickell

• The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Reality

• Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Fall

• I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Winning

• 'If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Family
  • May
  • Growth

• Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

  

  Walter A. Shewhart
  • Sentences
  • Operations
  • Measurement

• The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

  

  Jim Nussle