Henry Kissinger Quotes

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Nature

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Journalism

• The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Man

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Nature
  • Guy
  • Big

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • War
  • Nature
  • Military

• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Nature

• Relativity and... quantum... remain incomplete. ...the main reason each is incomplete is the existence of the other. The mind calls for a third theory to unify all of physics, and for a simple reason. Nature is... 'unified.' …interconnected, in that everything interacts with everything else.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Simple

• Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Small

• When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Nature
  • Jesus
  • Answer

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• 'Only trying to make conversation, friend.''Don’t bother-it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Trying
  • Friend

• When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • People
  • School
  • Bad

• [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

  

  Lyman Beecher
  • God
  • Support
  • Church

• It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Greek tragedy
  • Nixon
  • Nature