Henry Kissinger Quotes

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

Henry Kissinger

• Public Personality
• Superhuman effort
• Biblical proportions

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• I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.

  

  Adam Driver
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• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

  

  Zack Wamp
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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Real
  • Soul

• But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Building
  • Wood
  • Temple

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Words
  • Slavery

• What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Silence

• Religions die slowly.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Die

• I think the world should be one community.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • World
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• Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Universe

• I feel like there are a lot of positives in my swing. I'm really going to work around the rhythm of my swing, being able to keep my rhythm and being more consistent. Consistency is what I'm looking for, performance-wise.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • Work
  • Wise
  • Consistency

• I don't support violence, period.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Support
  • Violence
  • Period

• Losing an election is very difficult. I've lost an election myself, and it was very difficult.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Lost

• In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.

  

  Elise Stefanik

• The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Up
  • God
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• In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Hope
  • Virtue

• The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Music
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  • Support

• If I can't - then I must. If I must - then I will.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Will
  • Cant

• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Public Personality
  • Superhuman effort
  • Biblical proportions