Paul Hoffman Quotes

The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.

Paul Hoffman

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• My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Father
  • Me
  • Parent

• 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

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Father
  • Name
  • Walk

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Parents

• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Country
  • Remember
  • War

• Every father and son have conflicts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Father
  • Son
  • Father And Son

• I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Women
  • Real
  • Mother

• Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • War
  • Support
  • Resolution

• I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Trying
  • Father
  • English

• My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

  

  Paul Anka
  • Mother
  • Father

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Enemy

• I think immigrants, when they're stressed, think that there's something wrong with America, when it's really just difficult to leave a country and all that you know.

  

  Akhil Sharma
  • Country
  • America

• The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.

  

  Paul Hoffman
  • War
  • Father
  • Discovery