Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

Nicholas Murray Butler

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• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Learn
  • Partner

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Same
  • Youth

• Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Support

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Help
  • Service
  • Ferrari

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into 'America' inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Great
  • America
  • Opportunity

• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • War
  • Future
  • Service

• I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.

  

  Bill Flores
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Job
  • Earth
  • Opportunity

• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Lost

• This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

  

  Ann Veneman

• I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

  

  Darren Criss
  • People
  • Up
  • Mirror

• In Europe, we don't only take offence when one company is treating another company in a way that's illegal. We also look at if governments are joining up with companies that makes it more difficult for other companies. We also see that sometimes government actions can make it very difficult for businesses to compete on their merits.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Up

• A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Money
  • Organization

• The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

  

  Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Youth