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

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• 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

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• 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

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• 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

• The nature of things is dharma.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Dharma

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• 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

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• 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

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Stop
  • Anger

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Writing
  • School

• CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Communication

• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Character
  • Past

• The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Attitude

• 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