Peter Ustinov Quotes

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Chance
  • Happened
  • Flight

• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Best

• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Question
  • Purpose

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Conversation
  • Remembered

• If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • President
  • Fly

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Great
  • Here
  • Refugee

• I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Starting

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Science

• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tolerance
  • Indifference

• Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Man
  • Years
  • Doing

• Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Jesus

• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Heart
  • America

• You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • Work
  • Sex

• Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Sex