Jody Williams Quotes

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Jody Williams

• Home
• Control

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Soul
  • Myself

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

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

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Age
  • Audience
  • Group

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  

  Karl Rove
  • May
  • House
  • Decision

• At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Where

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Housing

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Mom
  • Hell
  • Pay

• Music would probably go. A lot of art would. That’s what I’m saying – I’m really into comics and movies and video games, and I don’t want to give that stuff up. At the same time, I think it’s filling the void for the stuff we’re missing.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Writing

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Long
  • Mind

• The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.

  

  Andrew B. Newberg
  • Reality
  • Brain
  • Ideas

• Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

  

  Jody Williams
  • Home
  • Control