Sargent Shriver Quotes

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

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• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Summer
  • Horse

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Family

• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Thinking

• A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Sea

• If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

  

  David Eddings
  • Opinion

• With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Law
  • Ignorance

• I am better than my reputation.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Better
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

  

  Bill Sharman
  • Game
  • Habit
  • Repetition

• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• The almost total disappearance of coinage from daily use in the post-Roman West is further powerful evidence of a remarkable change in levels of economic sophistication.

  

  Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Coinage
  • Post-Roman West
  • Economic sophistication

• Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Habit
  • Ability
  • Months